![]() ![]() “If he screams too hard with the first five, gets hysterical, wait,” Debi Pearl says in a clip included in the docuseries. As kids age, IBLP teachings for parents include Michael and Debi Pearl’s To Train Up A Child, a parenting method that endorses corporal punishment for children. They’re physically punished for reaching for a desired object. (Gothard has denied the allegations.) The four-part series highlights the depths of manipulation IBLP has over members, which starts at a young age through techniques like blanket training, where children are required to remain on a blanket for an allotted time period. Shiny Happy People, which debuted June 2, 2023, is a deep dive into the Duggar family, IBLP, and its disgraced leader, Bill Gothard, who resigned from the organization after multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment. King chose the latter-alongside IBLP survivors that included her cousin Jill Duggar Dillard, the only child of Jim Bob and Michelle to appear in the project. It was just like, ‘Do we close our eyes and act like it’s not happening?’ Or do we say, ‘It’s happening and here’s the atomic bomb,’ and let the pieces fall where they may?” “I looked around and my mom and I were like ‘Who is speaking out? Who is saying how wrong this is?’ And really, there weren’t many who were. That’s why she decided to participate in Shiny Happy People, despite knowing her decision could permanently dissolve family ties with her aunt, uncle, and cousins. ![]() I think that is the lowest of low, there’s no going back,” King says. “My last straw was the last scandal with Josh. ![]() ![]() The cousin King grew up seeing almost daily, given their closeness in both physical proximity and age, is one she doesn’t recognize today-and one she has no problem cutting off entirely, in the name of exposing IBLP practices that may have led to his choices. Later that year, a federal jury convicted him of “receiving and possessing material depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.” He is currently serving a 12-and-a-half-year sentence in federal prison. In April 2021, Josh, a father of seven, was arrested for downloading files portraying the sexual abuse of children. She’s had conversations with her female cousins about the alleged assault as well, but intends to keep those conversations private. “To think that someone holds a higher value than someone else is just so disgusting,” she says. King calls her aunt and uncle covering up Josh’s behavior at the expense of their daughters “cringe-worthy” and “evil.” It’s so sad how far it was taken, where he thought he could get away with anything.” “If you’re valued from the moment you’ve been born and people hide your secrets and cover up things, and you never get in trouble for the things that you’re doing, I believe you just become numb to how the world really is, and how the law really is. They hold the family name and the family value,” she says. “The IBLP prizes the first child, it doesn’t get much better than if it’s a son. She believes the ideology behind IBLP, which preaches the superiority of men, “absolutely” empowered Josh. “He was staying in a trailer and I went in there and I said, ‘How could you do this? … And I was very bold about that,” King explains, adding Josh admitted he did not attempt anything physical with her because “he knew better.” King says her cousin knew what he was doing and intentionally chose to prey upon girls who wouldn’t speak out against him. ![]()
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