Jill Duggar Dillard, Jessa Duggar Seewald to Star in TLC Documentary ‘Breaking the Silence,' Child Sexual Abuse Documentary [Watch]
TLC has canceled "19 Kids and Counting," but the network still plans to have the show's stars, the conservative Christian Duggar family, tell their story in an upcoming one-hour, commercial-free documentary focused on child sexual abuse, reports Entertainment Tonight.
The TLC network documentary special titled "Breaking the Silence" follows the May report that Josh Duggar, the eldest of the "19 Kids and Counting" Duggar family sons, had molested five minor girls, including some of his sisters, when he was a teenager.
The documentary was created to "promote education, raise awareness, and advance the conversation" on child sexual abuse, according to TLC.
"The one-hour documentary is built around the personal and emotional stories of brave survivors who have found the courage to come forward," TLC said in a statement.
"The goal is to take what has been a difficult and painful experience, and focus that attention on the really critical issue of child protection and child sexual abuse," TLC President Marjorie Kaplan said.
Sisters Jill Dillard and Jessa Seewald will speak in the documentary about being victims of their brother's molestation more than a decade ago and how they've coped with the experience.
In June, Dillard, 24, and Seewald, 22, discussed their sexual abuse at the hands of their older brother with Fox News' Megyn Kelly.
"My dad explained to us, he said, 'You know there's a difference between forgiveness and trust. That's not the same thing,'" Dillard told Kelly. "You know, you forgive someone and then you have boundaries. Forgiveness with boundaries. Trust comes later. Josh destroyed that trust at the beginning, and so he had to rebuild that. I think when he came back, that was... the point of rebuilding."
A source told Entertainment Tonight that the Duggar family is currently renting a house and have not returned to their home since the molestation scandal.
"Breaking the Silence" will air on Sunday, Aug. 30, at 10 p.m. on TLC.
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