Another Duggar Secret: Social worker calls 911 after the Duggars refuse to let them in to investigate welfare emergency

Days after Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar told the public about their son Josh' molestation of minors during his teenage years, a call was received by 911 from a social worker fearing for the safety of a suspected child victim inside the house. The call was made after the Duggars refused to cooperate in an investigation at the time. Through an audio recording obtained by In Touch, the social worker can be heard asking for police escort because of a seemingly welfare emergency.

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MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "I'm at the Duggar family home... We have an investigation and I guess they're not being cooperative. We have to see the child to make sure the child is alright. We need police assistance or an escort," the worker told the 911 operator, heard in the obtained copy of the audio recording.

In Touch magazine was able to secure a copy of the call using the Freedom of Information Act. It is reported that it is still unknown which child the worker was referring to.

In Arkansas, if someone suspects that a child is being abused in a home, they are free to call the designated hotline. From there, a team from human services will come by to investigate, if they believe the call is legitimate and meets the standards of maltreatment law, according to The Daily Mail.

The family seems to have failed to maintain having "no more secrets" after the interview.

Among his initial victims were his own sisters, who claimed that the situation before was not as bad as others depicted it to be.

"It wasn't like a horror story or this terrible thing," said Jessa in the interview. She and sister Jill had stressed that the whole family, including Josh, had dealt with the trauma after learning about his improper touchings and decided to leave them all behind and move on.

"Josh was a boy, a young boy in puberty and a little too curious about girls," she explained. Josh was 14 when he confessed about fondling his own sisters while they were sleeping.

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