Joseph Duggar says brother Josh's scandals 'broke my heart'

TONTITOWN, Ark., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Josh Duggar's younger brothers speak out about his sex-abuse and cheating scandals in a new clip from Sunday's television special Jill & Jessa: Counting On.

TLC canceled the devoutly Christian Duggar family's reality series 19 Kids and Counting this year after news broke that Josh molested five young girls, including his sisters, more than a decade earlier when he was a young teen. Josh, now 27, made headlines again this summer when it was leaked he had cheated on his wife Anna with numerous other women. He has been in faith-based rehab for months, reportedly for sex addiction.

"After everything started to settle down from the first release of stuff in the news about Josh, we got word of a second thing that we had no clue about," People magazine quoted John-David, 25, as saying in the video. "That was a little more of a shock probably than the first stuff coming out."

"I don't think there's any way any of us would have known that my brother was living such a secret life," added Joseph, 20. "It broke my heart. Whenever somebody you respect the most is willing to get up and proclaim what we believe as Christians, about being true to your wife, you'd never think that that's the person who's involved in it."