Josh Duggar convicted of child porn possession

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BREAKING: Former reality TV star Josh Duggar convicted of downloading and possessing child pornography. Duggar, starred on TLC's “19 Kids and Counting,” faces up to 20 years in prison on each of two charges.

Reality TV’s Josh Duggar convicted of child porn possession | AP News
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A federal jury in Arkansas on Thursday convicted former reality TV star Josh Duggar of downloading and possessing child pornography.
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9:32 AM · Dec 9, 2021

https://apnews.com/article/josh-duggar-convicted-child-pornography-26436604345361733003627af33bda78



The jury in Fayetteville, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, found the 33-year-old Duggar guilty on one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography. He faces up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 for each count when he’s sentenced at a later date.

Duggar and his large Arkansas family starred on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” until the network canceled the show in 2015 following revelations that he had molested four of his sisters and a babysitter. Authorities began investigating the abuse in 2006 after receiving a tip from a family friend but concluded that the statute of limitations on any possible charges had expired.

Duggar’s parents said he had confessed to the fondling and apologized. Duggar later apologized for a pornography addiction and for cheating on his wife.

The judge in the child porn case ruled that jurors could hear testimony about how in 2003, Duggar admitted to molesting four girls. A family friend testified that Duggar told her about the abuse.

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[WhiteTara]

1. good. Now I hope that derails his dad's

campaign for public office.

Pedophiles don't fair well in prison. I can see solitary confinement in his future. And I'm proud of that jury.

[Celerity]

35. One of Duggar's is literally known by his nickname, 'Edge'.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/dec/06/four-candidates-contest-special-republican/

You can't make this shit up, smdh. (I am assuming you know what edging is).

Papa paedo-raiser v. Edge.

[WhiteTara]

56. I live a sheltered life

what does edging mean?

[Celerity]

58. wilfully prolonging orgasm near the climax point

[NoRethugFriends]

2. Well, as long as he apologized.... (nt)

[Poiuyt]

24. "I'm sorry if I offended anyone."

[Caliman73]

33. More like...

I apologize if anyone took my actions as offensive.

The party of personal responsibility ALWAYS tries to distance their actions from the suffering of their victims, as much as possible.

[keithbvadu2]

41. The non-apology apology

[Poiuyt]

49. Yes, much better

Put the blame on the person who was offended.

[Archae]

3. I can't help but notice...

Cable news is just about ignoring this trial.

Jussie Smollet? His trial gets tons of coverage.

But a far worse crime, by a white conservative, (naturally,) hardly gets mentioned.
If at all.

[Kaleva]

22. hardly anyone watches cable news

About 1%-2% of the adult population in this country watches Fox News and even smaller percentages watch CNN or MSNBC.

[ShazzieB]

37. What is the source of those figures?

Asking, because they don't jive with what I've seen elsewhere...by quite a bit.

Also, it's hard to see how any of the cable news networks could stay on the air with such a tiny viewership. Among other things, they wouldn't be able to sell any advertising time,and they obviously do sell quite a lot.

[Kaleva]

65. There's a number of sites that list the ratings of each network and particular shows.

Here's a link that I had in a post here I made back in August that lists the viewers of various news shows

http://www.ratingsryan.com/2021/08/news-ratings-week-ending-august-8-2021.html

You'll see that the cable news networks have far fewer viewers then the legacy broadcast news shows.

A google search finds the adult population of the US

"In 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau counted 331.4 million people living in the United States; more than three-quarters (77.9%) or 258.3 million were adults, 18 years or older"

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/united-states-adult-population-grew-faster-than-nations-total-population-from-2010-to-2020.html

Fox News Primetime had 1,537,000 viewers the evening of 2 Aug 21. That's less then 1% oof the adult population of the US. compare that to ABC news which had 5 times the viewers Fox had for that particular day.

[LeftInTX]

64. The judge kept Duggar's case low profile on purpose

I'm glad.

It probably helped get him convicted.

[LoisB]

4. So, when does he get tried for child molestation?

[ShazzieB]

45. Never. Unless something new comes to light.

Statute of limitations has run out on the sister abuse.

[Botany]

5. Josh has friends

[EarlG]

6. This Josh Duggar?

https://jensenkarp.com/pictures-of-josh-duggar-republican-politicians/

[Budi]

8. Gaaad! Look at all those back slappers. How proud, smiling, well-bonded they are

The AP article gets worse as you read it.

[empedocles]

14. Great work with the pic 'illustrations'

[MagickMuffin]

25. So, my senator will meet with an out of state non-constituent

But NOT the ones he is suppose to represent. Got it, Teddy. Now please go back from once you came. Whether it be Canada, or the farthest depths of hell.

[LeftInTX]

63. Will they show up at his sentencing hearing?

[Budi]

7. His wife reminds me of Amy Coney-Barrett.

Maybe now her 7 kids will grow up safe from the sickness of their father.

He's had this problem since he was young.
They knew it.

[meadowlander]

23. Who would have thought "Pray out the Pedo" wouldn't work?

[MineralMan]

9. Oh, Snap!

Bye, Joshie...

[Sane1]

10. Sentence

He'll probably get sentenced to run the day care center at Mar-A-Lago

[Ray Bruns]

12. He's white. So I am guessing

3 years probation and a hundred hours of community service.

[obamanut2012]

20. wrong

Mainly because Feds do not give probation, nor early parole.

But please, continue doom posting.

[monkeyman1]

39. better put in safe place , prison people don't like pedo's at all !

[LeftInTX]

62. I'm guessing at least 3-5 years prison

He's facing up to 20 years.

He could get more than 5. However, Duggar was only charged with one count

I compared him to Jared Fogle. (Subway) Fogle's case was more involved and he had an extra charge of sex act with a minor...Fogle is serving 15 years.

[obamanut2012]

18. ...

whatever, you are so wrong.

[hlthe2b]

11. Good riddance to "religious" hypocritical trash.. I hope this signals the permanent end of

the entire grifting family on tv.

[LizBeth]

13. And yet, all his crimes, I am seeing no jail. I do not have much faith in the

system of a white man raping and hurting children and women.

[RobinA]

16. Why Bring Race

into it? There are many, MANY white men in jail for molesting children.

[LizBeth]

27. And I have watched many many white men rape, convicted and judge felt sorry

for them and not sentence. Why a protection over the privilege of white men raping?

[WhiteTara]

57. he was judged guilty and

could be sentenced up to 20 years for each count. I'm betting he does time.

[Raine]

60. That's ridiculous 🙄 nt

[cinematicdiversions]

69. You know yesterday we had a person with a mental health crisis shoot at cops

He was brought in peacefully,

He is black

You really need to rethink your racism.

[RobinA]

15. No, No, No...

I'll give him a get out of jail free card if he names his abuser. There's a rat in that wood pile older than him.

[obamanut2012]

21. So, you would let a rapist and a child sexual image criminal free?

Wow.

[RobinA]

52. Way To Miss

the point. I’m not a judge, I don’t sentence people.

[Budi]

26. Yup. Next question: What trauma happened to young Josh

In his church, his family.

[LizBeth]

28. Well, color me not surprised after your call out to my post right above.

[RobinA]

53. Put Down

your race card for a minute and consider that there might be other issues here that people react to. Like stopping the abuse of all children by adults.

[LizBeth]

54. Wow

[Budi]

17. Anna & her parents KNEW. He had to confess his early molestation to her parents

Ugh. What a filthy gross family that hid it all. His dumb dad too!

The witness that testified was the mom of a girl he was courting, almost ready to marry before Anna, she said he confessed it to them and they called everything off.

HOWEVER:
Anna's family sold her to the duggars because they were celebrities. They knew what he had done to his sisters, he was required to confess it to her parents. They didn't care.

Hang your heads in shame you sinners.

[LenaBaby61]

19. The mostly right-winged corporate news media would be running like hell with this if he was a Dem..

And had Dem associations.

Look at how the mostly corporate news media ran with Hunter Biden, Weiner and Al Franken stories.

Not that Weiner's a prize with his sex-offending behind--sexting with his son sitting next to him along with other hideous things he did, but my God what Dugger did is filth on top of filth on top of filth, and hopefully he'll do the whole 20 years, and becomes a pariah. But he won't, and especially not in these deep red states.

This filthy asshole sexually molested 5 girls and 4 were his OWN sisters, and he was addicted to kiddie porn. We may hear a bit of news on it, but the mostly corporate right-winged media isn't fixated on this hideous of most hideous crime stories

[tulipsandroses]

29. Where was Qanon?

I thought getting rid of people like Josh was their reason for being.

[Celerity]

38. I GUARANTEE a shit tonne of QMAGAts are closet paedos.

Right wingers love control and dominance to a greater degree, on balance, than left wingers (not saying all leftists are innocent of power lusts, btw), and often have all sorts of fucked up sexual repression histories, so children make ideal targets as they often cannot or will not fight back.

QAnon is projection, IMHO, for a lot of its followers.

[MontanaMama]

46. This this this.

Absolutely everything that Q's accuse others of doing they are guilty of themselves.

[Celerity]

47. yep, always toss it back in their face, put them on the defensive

[tulipsandroses]

61. Yes we know their save the children act is BS

Ya gotta be in awe though of the lengths they will go to, to find child abusers. Go to a pizza shop, fire a gun looking for children in basement that doesn’t exist, see cryptic messages about child abuse in a lost handkerchief, swear they have seen footage of HRC feasting on the blood of children when perpetrators are right there in their midst or amongst people they associate with.

[ShazzieB]

48. IOIYAR?

[mercuryblues]

30. The judge will

Sentence him to 2 years suspended sentence and 40 hours of community service. He will use the church for his “community service “

Wouldn’t want to ruin his promising future and all.

[LizBeth]

40. +1. I can't help but have little faith in sentencing a privileged white man abusing women and

children either. Prove me wrong, and I will do a happy dance of relief.

[Budi]

31. Thing is, if this hadn't been a Federal Case, it wouldn't have made it to trial at all.

Federal Case can only charge him for this.
Anything relating before that was already known, is State, I believe.
But this is the big one that removed the protections he had in his State & church.

[pfitz59]

32. Sadly, he's a breeder

7 kids and counting. "Mommy, Where's Daddy?"

[LeftInTX]

66. Is he a grandparent already?

I know they start young

[DesertRat]

34. Instead of "former TV reality star"

They should refer to him as the former Family Research Council Action Executive Director and FRC Board Member.

[multigraincracker]

36. I over heard folks taking about the

basement of the Astroid Pizza parlor in Hope Arkansas.
Just saying.

[totodeinhere]

42. I never heard of him.

What show was he on? Thanks.

[ARPad95]

50. It started with 17 Kids and Counting on TLC

As the RW nutters Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar continued adding to their family, the show title reflected the additional kids. Josh Duggar was the oldest of the brood and got a lot of attention when he courted and married Anna, another offspring of a RW nutter family.

[totodeinhere]

70. OK thanks. I don't have a TV so I didn't know that. n/t

[ShazzieB]

51. 19 kids and counting.

The number started out as something like 14 and kept going up until the mom's ovaries finally got too old to crank out any more eggs.

The last 2 pregnancies ended in a premature birth and a miscarriage, respectively, because she was already too old for that stuff (but didn't believe in birth control).

[totodeinhere]

71. Thanks. Never heard of that show before. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

43. The conservative way

The conservative way

I prayed... a lot.

God has forgiven me.

I'm ready to move on with my life.

[ShazzieB]

44. Not just a pervert, but an incredibly stupid one.

From the article:

Federal authorities said they began investigating after a Little Rock police detective found child porn files were being shared by a computer traced to Duggar. A federal agent testified in May that images depicting the sexual abuse of children, including toddlers, were downloaded in 2019 onto a computer at a car dealership Duggar owned.

Duggar’s attorney argued that someone else downloaded or uploaded the images onto Duggar’s computer. But the jury wasn’t swayed.

Not surprised the jury wasn't swayed.

[RobinA]

55. Stupidity

I once had a guy download a ton of kiddie porn onto a Rent-a-Center computer. Returned the computer, including the intact hard drive, for an upgrade and got nabbed. He argued that they couldn’t prove it was his, which unfortunately was true.

The REALLY stupid thing was he didn’t learn his lesson and despite having all kinds of Children & Youth caseworkers all over his house he did it again many times and got caught red handed by police.

Kiddie porn can be a tough case to make.

[Raine]

59. GOOD!!! 👍 nt

[LeftInTX]

67. Read all about it...Daily Mail has the dirt

Disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar faces decades in prison after he was found guilty today of downloading a vile trove of 'the worst of the worst' child porn.

Jurors deliberated for six hours before returning guilty verdicts on charges of possessing child pornography and receipt of child pornography, both punishable by 20 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.

Duggar, 33, glanced anxiously toward his wife Anna and dad Jim Bob but showed little emotion as each juror was asked individually to reaffirm their decision.

The once clean-cut Christian star of 19 Kids and Counting finally broke down in tears, however, as marshals placed him in handcuffs but allowed him to linger for a few moments beside his family in the public gallery.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10288613/Josh-Duggar-GUILTY-two-counts-child-pornography.html

The couple, pictured with six of their seven young children, subscribed to a service in 2013 called Covenant Eyes that monitors adult internet use and would report 'objectionable material' to wife Anna, the court heard

[Maraya1969]

68. A lot of stuff gets downloaded onto this laptop. I don't know why but it's what happens

If someone send me child porn. Your should report it but it is on YOUR laptop. I would hate to think that I would be charged with something when it was a hacker.