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A federal judge will allow videos found on electronic devices used by Josh Duggar to be used as evidence in his child pornography case. Duggar, who appeared on the TLC reality show "19 Kids and Counting" with his parents and siblings, was charged with two counts of downloading and possessing child pornography earlier this year. The 33-year-old faces up to 20 years in prison and fines up to $250,000 if convicted on each count. Duggar's attorneys filed a motion to suppress video evidence found on his devices, arguing the case had become "stale" since so much time had passed between...

To everyone who's able to look at the situation with any objectivity, it's obvious that the prosecution's case against Josh Duggar is air-tight. Ever since Josh was arrested on child pornography charges back in April, his lawyers have been working diligently to create a shadow of a doubt about his guilt. Most of their efforts have been rebuffed, and it now seems more certain than ever that Josh will be going to prison for a very long time. After the judge in Duggar's case denied four motions to dismiss evidence filed by the defense, it was widely assumed that Josh...

ANNA DUGGAR LLC's | Why do the Duggar's have so many LLC'S? Anna Duggar has alot of LLC's and I am curious to what they all are. Why so many? does she sell something? Anna has ALOT of kids to support so financially she Must be doing ok. I do not claim and never have claimed to know every single thing about this family (if I did, that would be stalkerish). I'm sure u know more than I do about the LLC'S so please comment or email me.

As the trial date looms, Duggar family followers will likely hear plenty more Josh Duggar news. More recently, a Reddit user posted court documents from his defense team. Duggar’s defense is in support of a motion to suppress evidence. And one of the documents explains what happened when the police attempted to download all of the files. According to the documents, the government used the program Torrential Downpour. The program identifies child sexual abuse content distributed through file-sharing networks. The document claims law enforcement spent “17 hours, attempting 169 times, to download only 13 of the 66 pieces that comprise...

The closer Josh Duggar's trial date gets, the more the little details of his investigation begin to add up. According to new court documents that have surfaced, a scar on Josh's hands match up to images seized from his computer in the evidence from his federal child pornography case. This is not looking good. Josh's hands may help the prosecution identify the images on his computer as belonging to him. In court documents obtained by Radar, prosecutors explained that they were able to see the same small scar on Josh's hand "in images recovered from the defendant’s electronic devices seized...

Josh Duggar's lawyers want his child pornography case tossed. Attorneys for the former TLC star, who is accused of receiving and possessing material depicting the sexual abuse of children, filed two motions on Friday seeking to dismiss the case. According to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Duggar's defense team argues the government failed to preserve potentially exculpatory evidence during its investigation. A second motion claims the case should be dismissed because the two acting secretaries of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during the investigation weren't properly appointed under the designated order of succession when Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned in 2019....

As Josh Duggar's trial grows closer, he and his attorneys continue to make demands regarding potential evidence used in the case against him. According to court documents obtained by the Sun, Josh's legal team wants photos of his hands and feet deleted — apparently, it was "illegal" to take them in jail in the first place. Wait, what? Apparently, Josh was required to pose for photos showing his hands and feet while in jail. According to the court documents, law enforcement took the photos without a warrant and without his lawyer present, and because they were an "intrusion on [his]...

In an effort to dig up evidence that could absolve Josh Duggar, the former TLC star's defense team is seeking more information from the multiple police departments that prosecutors say downloaded child sexual abuse files from his IP address. In a partial victory on Thursday, a federal judge granted the Duggar team's request. Judge Timothy Brooks ruled that prosecutors could likely work with federal agents to obtain the information Duggar's team wanted from the Jonesboro and Ozark police departments in Arkansas. "The defense has persuaded the Court that the auto-generated logs emailed to the three officers could disclose information to...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Federal prosecutors filed a motion in response to Joshua Duggar’s attorney’s request for additional information in the child porn case, they are asking for the judge to deny that motion. In late July, the defense filed a “motion to compel” requesting more discovery information from the state regarding two of the Little Rock police officers involved in the investigation. Duggar’s attorney Justin Gelfand accused prosecutors of withholding material. On page 2, of the 19-page court filing, Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Gerald Faulkner stated that the search warrant for Wholesale Motorcars, 14969 Wildcat...

Josh Duggar has been granted bail and will not have to sit in a jail cell until his trial in his federal child pornography case, Arkansas Judge Christy Comstock ruled following a four-hour-plus hearing on Wednesday. Duggar, 33, will be placed with a third-party custodian – a familiar family who are close enough with Duggar and his wife Anna and have also known the family for about six or eight years through their church. The family says they have a self-contained space on their property where Duggar can live while he awaits his looming trial. "It is my intention to...

Josh Duggar's younger sister, Jinger Vuolo, has broken her silence over his child pornography charges. * * * Jinger, 27, and her husband Jeremy Vuolo, 33, reacted swiftly to Duggar's charges after they were made public Friday. "We are disturbed to hear of the charges against Josh. While this case must go through the legal system, we want to make it clear that we absolutely condemn any form of child abuse and fully support the authorities and judicial process in their pursuit of justice," the couple wrote in a statement shared to Instagram.

CNN)Former reality TV star Joshua Duggar has been arrested on federal charges related to the possession of child pornography, according to the US Attorney's Office in the Western District of Arkansas. Duggar allegedly downloaded material that depicted the sexual abuse of children under the age of 12, the US attorney's office said in a statement. Duggar allegedly possessed the material in May 2019. Duggar, the oldest son of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, whose family was the subject of the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting," faces two charges, the indictment shows -- one count of receipt of child pornography...

Josh Duggar, 33, a former star of the reality television series 19 Kids and Counting is facing up to 40 years in prison if convicted on charges of receiving and possessing material depicting the sexual abuse of children.* * *It's not the first time Josh has attracted controversy and a 33-page police report detailed years of allegations of sexual misconduct. In 2002, Jim Bob Duggar, Josh's father, told police his son admitted to folding (sic) (my bolding) several victims' breasts and genitals while they were sleeping, according to the report, and Jim Bob and his wife, Michelle, were made aware...

Josh Duggar, one of the headliners of TLC's titular family reality show 19 Kids and Counting, has been arrested by the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Arkansas. According to online records, Duggar was booked and placed on a federal hold Thursday afternoon at Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville. Under charges, it lists only "hold for other dept." No bond is listed. Duggar co-starred with his large family in 19 Kids and Counting from 2008 to 2015. However, that show was canceled after Josh was accused of having molested underage girls, including several of his sisters, when he was a...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Democrat Megan Godfrey has been elected to a second term in the Arkansas State House. Godfrey is the ESL co-director at Fayetteville Schools and previously worked as an ESL teacher for Springdale Schools. Her priorities for her second term include rent relief assistance, public health, and economic development. “I think that one of the issues that we’ve seen, the most important all across the state of Arkansas, but especially in District 89, is just how significantly COVID-19 has hit some of our communities,” Godfrey told 40/29 News in a pre-election interview. “In particular the Hispanic and Marshallese...

Login credentials for over 412 million users of adult websites run by California-based FriendFinder Networks Inc. were compromised last month in the largest hack of 2016, according to breach notification website LeakedSource.com. Compromised data includes nearly 340 million credentials for Adultfriendfinder.com, which bills itself as “the world’s largest sex and swinger community,” some 63 million records from video sex-chat site cams.com and about 7 million records from adult magazine site Penthouse.com, LeakedSource said in a blog published on Sunday. Asked if the account from LeakedSource was accurate, the company provided Reuters with a statement saying it had brought in outside...

“Three families with young girls were unhappy Josh was so close to them and left the golf course when they saw him and Jim Bob,' a source told the magazine. 'The parents were not comfortable.” Still, there reportedly wasn’t much Old MacDonald Farm could do to stop the two from hitting the golf course. 'The staff tried to be as polite as possible to the angry parents, but it seemed there was little they could do to stop Josh from being a customer,” the source explained. “I don’t know if Josh and Jim Bob were aware of the problems their...

Josh Duggar is reportedly not sorry at all about cheating on his wife, and has been making light of the recent revelation that he molested five minors when he was a teenager. A source close to the Duggar family reveals in an explosive new interview that Josh has shown 'no remorse' about having affairs while married to his wife Anna and joining the adultery website Ashley Madison. 'He is not the person everyone thought they knew,' said the source.

Former “19 Kids and Counting” star Josh Duggar went into a Christian rehab after he was exposed for cheating on wife Anna in the Ashley Madison hack, but now his whereabouts might be unknown, Radar Online reported Tuesday. Duggar reportedly entered the Reformers Unanimous treatment center, in Rockford, Illinois, which his parents publicly have supported, to treat his admitted porn addiction, but the eldest Duggar sibling has not shown up to church services and meetings mandated by the program. Duggar, 27, reportedly skipped services Sunday. “Josh definitely wasn’t there,” an anonymous source said. “It was very strange.” The self-described hypocrite...

(CNN)Josh Duggar, the eldest of the Duggar children, is going into rehab, the family said in a statement Wednesday. "Yesterday Josh checked himself into a long-term treatment center," the family said in a posting on duggarfamily.com. "For him it will be a long journey toward wholeness and recovery. We pray that in this he comes to complete repentance and sincere change. "In the meantime, we will be offering our love, care and devoted support to Anna and our grandchildren as she also receives counsel and help for her own heart and future," the statement continued.