Toby Willis figured his family could be as famous as the Duggars.
He was the patriarch of a quiverfull family — he and his wife Brenda have 12 children — and after performing on America’s Got Talent, they soon starred in a TLC reality show called The Willis Family that focused on their traveling music/dance act in which they entertained audiences while spreading the Gospel. The show was never as famous as the Duggars’ and it ended after two six-episode seasons.
Months after the final episode aired in 2016, Toby Willis was arrested on charges that he “had a sexual encounter approximately 12 years [prior] with an underage female.” He pleaded guilty to all the charges and, last July, he was sentenced to a total of 40 years in prison.
The oldest child in the Willis family is 26-year-old Jessica Fisher, who played fiddle and wrote songs for the band. Her birthday was on Friday, and she marked the occasion with a new website telling her side of the story.
Because Toby’s victims were minors, we never knew their names, but Jessica says she was one of those victims. Right up front, she says she has “come to realize that I feel a responsibility to the truth itself and my conscience demands a public denouncement of the previous life I helped hide for so long.”
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He was the patriarch of a quiverfull family — he and his wife Brenda have 12 children — and after performing on America’s Got Talent, they soon starred in a TLC reality show called The Willis Family that focused on their traveling music/dance act in which they entertained audiences while spreading the Gospel. The show was never as famous as the Duggars’ and it ended after two six-episode seasons.
Months after the final episode aired in 2016, Toby Willis was arrested on charges that he “had a sexual encounter approximately 12 years [prior] with an underage female.” He pleaded guilty to all the charges and, last July, he was sentenced to a total of 40 years in prison.
The oldest child in the Willis family is 26-year-old Jessica Fisher, who played fiddle and wrote songs for the band. Her birthday was on Friday, and she marked the occasion with a new website telling her side of the story.
Because Toby’s victims were minors, we never knew their names, but Jessica says she was one of those victims. Right up front, she says she has “come to realize that I feel a responsibility to the truth itself and my conscience demands a public denouncement of the previous life I helped hide for so long.”
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