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Arkansas-based minister Mike Keller, who is associated with the Duggar family, is currently in the hot seat. This follows the emergence of clips on the internet showing him delivering a wild, wild sermon that is illogical and ignorant at best and steeped in racism at worst. Keller is the father of Anna Duggar and the father-in-law of convicted pedophile Josh Duggar, who is currently serving a 12.5-year sentence for possessing CSAM. Showing his poor judgment, Keller previously penned a letter to the judge, pleading for leniency towards Duggar. He described him as “very gentle, kind and polite to everyone” and...

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has had his 12 and a half-year prison sentence extended by almost two months, as he sits in solitary confinement for having an illegal cell phone. Duggar, 34, was arrested in April 2021 after a Little Rock police detective found images of child abuse which had been shared by a computer traced to the '19 Kids and Counting' personality. Investigators claim the images were downloaded in 2019 onto a computer at a car dealership owned by Duggar, which prompted federal agents to search Wholesale Motorcars in November 2019. Duggar pleaded not guilty to one...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An attorney for Josh Duggar asked a federal appeals court panel on Thursday to reverse the former reality TV star’s conviction for downloading child pornography, saying investigators violated his rights by seizing the phone he was using to try to call his lawyer during the search that found the images. Attorneys for Duggar and the U.S. Justice Department appeared before a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a hearing. The panel did not indicate when they planned to rule. Duggar, 34, was arrested in April 2021 after a Little Rock...

Josh Duggar has been placed in solitary confinement for allegedly possessing a cell phone in prison, according to multiple reports. The disgraced 19 Kids and Counting alum, 34, was moved to the Special Housing Unit (SHU) at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) Seagoville in Texas, where he is currently serving a 12.5-year sentence on child pornography charges. The conditions of the facility’s solitary confinement area are notoriously “bad,” per multiple reports. The latest update about the Arkansas native comes just days before Josh’s legal team is set to appeal his conviction. The father of seven was found guilty of receiving...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — On June 27, former reality TV star Josh Duggar, 34, was transferred to FCI Seagoville in Texas to begin serving his 151-month sentence following his December 2021 conviction on child pornography charges. Duggar’s incarceration in the federal correctional institute comes with many different restrictions and rules attached. FCI Seagoville has a 59-page “Admissions & Orientation Information Handbook” for new inmates. “Your strict compliance with the rules and regulations is an essential part of exhibiting the responsible behavior required at this institution,” states former Warden Eddy M. Mejia in the manual’s introduction. “We expect you to take...

Disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar has been jailed for 12 years and seven months for downloading a vile trove of 'the worst of the worst' child porn. US District Judge Timothy Brooks handed the 151-month prison sentence at the Western District of Arkansas Federal Courthouse in Fayetteville at the end of a day-long hearing on Wednesday. Duggar, 34, has been in custody since December when a federal jury found the 19 Kids and Counting alum guilty of possession and receipt of child pornography. Members of the Duggar family, including father Jim Bob Duggar, 56, Josh's wife Anna, 34, and...

Josh Duggar Interrogation Audio (RAW) video is 24 minutes long. Josh is currently filing his appeal and wants a new trial or acquittal.

Jana Duggar has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child in Arkansas - news that comes just one day after her brother Josh was found guilty of child porn charges. The reality TV star from 19 Kids and Counting, 31, has been charged with the misdemeanor, an Elms Springs District clerk confirmed to DailyMail.com on Friday. The local county clerk said Duggar was cited on September 9, 2021 but said she wasn't at liberty to say if the charge was connected to Josh. Jana has entered a plea deal and is expected to appear in the Washington County...

JOSH Duggar was seen smiling in his mugshot after he was found guilty of child pornography charges. Duggar, 33, was arrested and charged with receiving and possessing child pornography in April 2021. On Thursday he was found guilty on both counts. He is now likely to get 10 years in prison, an attorney told The U.S. Sun. Sentencing will come at a later date. Judge Timothy L Brooks said that he plans to sentence Duggar in four months time. He added: "Mr Duggar 100 percent has been compliant awaiting trial. "I appreciate that and I wanted to acknowledge that however...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — On the final day of the Josh Duggar child pornography trial, the jury found Duggar guilty on both charges of receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography. Duggar, 33, faces up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 for each count. Judge Timothy Brooks announced that sentencing will happen at a later date, which has not been set. Closing arguments began the morning of Dec. 8 and the verdict was reached on Dec. 9 after two days of deliberation. The trial lasted six days and saw two witnesses called for...

BOTH sides have rested in the criminal trial against Josh Duggar. Duggar was charged in April of 2021 on counts of receiving and possessing child pornography, to which he pleaded not guilty. What is Josh Duggar's final verdict? There is not yet a verdict for Josh Duggar. After defense rested on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, final arguments in the trial were scheduled for Wednesday, December 8. Following closing arguments will be a jury deliberation. Prosecution rested its case on Monday, December 6, before Duggar's attorneys took the stand. Forensic computer analyst Michele Bush told Duggar's attorneys the computer where child...

The second week of Josh Duggar's child pornography trial began on Monday and a new witness made a stunning claim. A close family friend, Bobye Holt, took the stand for the prosecution and claimed Josh confessed to molesting multiple young girls during a conversation back in 2003, according to Fox 24 News. Bobye and Jim Holt's eldest daughter was Josh's girlfriend in November 2002, when they were 14 years old, so they interacted with the Duggar family regularly. She claimed that Josh, in the presence of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar at the Duggar home, said he touched female minors...

A sick trove of child porn found on Josh Duggar's work computer was protected by the same password used for his family's Instagram account, a court heard today. Prosecutors say Duggar used his business HP to download videos of minors being humiliated and abused but hid his sordid activity behind a device called a Linux partition. The Linux system effectively created a second, secret operating system on the same computer that could only be accessed by rebooting the machine, hitting F9 and manually typing in the password intel1988. It's behind this partition that the government says Duggar used encrypted 'peer-to-peer'...

JOSH Duggar made a startling "non-admission" when questioned about alleged child pornography on his work computer in 2019. In court on Wednesday, audio from an interview with Homeland Security agents conducted with Josh in 2019 was played. At the time, after being presented with evidence, Josh told arresting officers: "I’m not going to say anything that’s going to incriminate me. I’m not denying guilt. I’m not saying if I am guilty or not." In another audio recording played for the court, Josh was asked by an agent if he was aware of what peer-to-peer was, according to a Sun reporter...

JOSH Duggar has been accused of downloading horrific child abuse images and videos. It was revealed during Thursday's trial hearing that one file name found on his HP desktop computer is of a video of a "three-month-old being sexually abused and tortured." WARNING: DISTURBING DETAILS BELOW During day two of trial in Josh's child pornography case, the jury was shown disturbing images and videos prosecutors claim were found on the 33-year-old's computer. A folder of child pornography was found in a cache folder in the downloads section on the computer. Prosecution explained that the account linked to this computer has...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — On the morning of December 1 at the Western District of Arkansas Courthouse in Fayetteville, Josh Duggar’s child pornography case began. Judge Timothy L. Brooks filed a 15-page opinion and order Wednesday morning saying Duggar’s prior allegations of child molestation conduct can be introduced as evidence during the trial. Before adjourning for lunch at 12:05 p.m., Judge Brooks offered detailed instructions to the jury, each side provided their opening statements, and the first witness of the trial was called. Duggar and his team entered the courtroom at approximately 8:36 a.m. His lead counsel, Justin K. Gelfand,...

Government opposes Josh Duggar's request to prohibit witness' testimony On Tuesday, the government opposed the request from Josh Duggar's attorneys to prohibit witness Bobye Holt's testimony. In new court documents obtained by Fox News, an assistant United States attorney claimed Bobye Holt's testimony should not be prevented by "clergy privilege," as Duggar's attorneys claimed. The government argues that Holt is “not clergy or a church leader…She is simply a long-time family friend of the defendant and the mother of the girl he was dating when he molested Jane Does 1 through 4." "The defendant is asking the Court to adopt...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The prosecution in the Josh Duggar child pornography case filed multiple motions on November 3, asking the judge to allow them to discuss Duggar’s past sexual molestation allegations. Duggar, 33, is charged in a two-count indictment alleging one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Duggar has pleaded not guilty to both counts. According to court documents, the prosecution says it may seek to introduce evidence at trial that Duggar committed other acts of sexual molestation. The prosecution anticipates the evidence will consist of testimony that Duggar was investigated...

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...