The Duggars Say It's a Witch Hunt. Here's What a Psychotherapist Sees Instead.

Joseph Duggar has been arrested on charges involving a child — charges he allegedly admitted to twice. His wife faces separate child endangerment charges. And the family's reported response is that this is persecution for their faith. A witch hunt. The enemy attacking.

Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to examine the psychology behind that response. Scott has spent thirty years treating people whose religious frameworks became the primary barrier to accountability. She also grew up inside a fundamentalist religious system herself, documented in her memoir Nightbird.

This conversation goes where the news coverage can't — into the psychological machinery that allows a family facing criminal charges involving children to frame the situation as spiritual warfare. What Jim Bob Duggar was building inside this family for decades. What Joseph Duggar is doing psychologically when he retreats to his Bible after confessing to harming a child. And what it takes to reach someone living inside that level of denial.

This is Part 1 of a three-part series.

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