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Josh Duggar’s sister Jessa Seewald identified herself as one of her brother’s victims on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly — but then astonishingly defended his actions.

Jessa said what her brother did was “very wrong” but went on to say, “I do want to speak up in his defense against people who are calling him a child molester or a pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying. I’m like that is so overboard and a lie really, I mean people get mad at me for saying that but I can say this because I was one of the victims.”

Josh’s other sister Jill Dillard has also stepped forward, identifying herself as a victim.

“We are victims, they can’t do this to us,” Jill said, wiping tears from her eyes in a preview for an interview that will air on Friday.

Jessa angrily added, “The system that was set up to protect kids, both those who make stupid mistakes or have problems like this in their life and the ones that are affected by those choices. It’s greatly failed.”

It was also revealed on Wednesday that Josh confessed to molesting young girls three times before his parents bothered to do anything about it.

In Touch Weekly published a new police report, which reveals the now-27-year-old repeatedly confessed to molesting four of his sisters and a family friend before his parents, after waiting 16 months, alerted authorities.

Josh reportedly came to his father, Jim Bob, in tears and “told him that he had been sneaking into [his sisters’] room at night and had been touching [his sisters] … while they were sleeping.”

Had the statute of limitations regarding the case not expired, it is believed both parents could have faced up to six years in prison for permitting the abuse of a minor.

Jessa, 22, married Ben Seewald in November and the couple are expecting their first child together, while Jill, 24, and husband Derick welcomed a baby boy in April.

The full interview with Jessa and Jill will air Friday on Fox’s “The Kelly File”at 9 p.m. ET.