During an emotional interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Wednesday night, Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar of "19 Kids and Counting" spoke about the molestation scandal involving their son Josh, four of their daughters and a babysitter.
In the interview, the parents told Kelly that they had put "safeguards" in their Arkansas home after they learned about the molestation.
The molestations originally took place in their three-bedroom Springdale, Ark., home, which they moved out of in 2006, according to The Daily Mail. In the previous home, the boys' and girls' bedrooms were just feet away from one another, so there was easy access to each other's rooms. They moved into their current Kodiak Steels Homes home four years after Josh confessed his actions.
The Daily Mail has obtained the layout of the new home, which was not described in detail during the interview on "The Kelly File," and it is clear that it would be very hard for Josh to get to the young girls bedrooms. In the new home, which Jim Bob and Michelle had custom built, there are a number of measures physically separating their 19 children. The daughters' bedrooms are on the complete opposite end of the home's second floor to their sons' room. The parents' master bedroom is perfectly situated in front of the girls' room in order to "block" it. If Josh or any of the sons wanted to get to the girls' rooms, they would have had to walk past their parents' bedroom, as well as Michelle's office.
A huge catwalk also separates the two sides of the houses. It stretches across the double-height kitchen, dining room and living room, so anyone in these rooms would clearly be able to see whoever is walking across the catwalk. There is a spiral staircase that is the only way to get to the girls' room without going across the catwalk, but even then, whoever takes the staircase comes out right in front of the parents' master suite.
During the interview, Jim Bob and Michelle did reveal some of the rules they had in their home to prevent the incidents from happening again.
"We don't let boys babysit." Michelle said. "They don't play hide and seek together. Little ones don't sit on big boys' lap, people we don't know, or even family members, unless it's your daddy."
"Nothing like that ever happened to them again in the girls' bedrooms," Jim Bob added.
One incident did then take place in a communal room of the house, and following this incident, and "several" of the girls coming forward in 2003, the parents sent Josh to a faith-based healing facility.
Jessa and Jill, two of the daughters involved in this scandal, also spoke to Kelly in an interview which will air tonight.
For more on the Duggar scandal, check out HNGN's initial coverage of the interview.
Check out the Duggar's Arkansas home layout below.
