Joseph Duggar has been arrested on charges involving a child. His wife faces separate child endangerment charges. And according to sources close to the family, some members are framing the entire situation as persecution — a witch hunt targeting them for their Christian faith.

Joseph allegedly admitted to what he did — twice. He's reportedly reading his Bible in solitary confinement. Jim Bob Duggar has reportedly told his family for years that following Christ means the enemy will try to attack. So when criminal charges arrive, the family already has an explanation that has nothing to do with what anyone actually did.

Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott to examine what that defense mechanism actually is, how it works, and what it costs the people living inside it. Scott brings thirty years of clinical expertise in trauma recovery and religious control — along with her own personal experience leaving a fundamentalist system, documented in her memoir Nightbird.

This is the conversation about what happens when faith stops being a source of truth and starts being a wall against it. Part 1 of 3.

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