Posted on 12/09/2021 8:40:53 AM PST by Morgana
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 the defense, while five witnesses took the stand for the prosecution.
The defense’s witnesses were Digital Forensics expert Michele Bush and Daniel Wilcox, a former Homeland Security Investigations task force member and Rogers Police Department narcotics officer.
The prosecution called five witnesses, including Jim and Bobye Holt, who said they were friends with the Duggar family.
Bobye Holt said during her testimony that Josh confessed to her about molesting young girls when he was a teenager.
Duggar was arrested on April 29, 2021. He was released from police custody to a third-party custodian on May 5, 2021.
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I grew up in a Baptist Church, went to Baptist schools. Dad was a Deacon and my Dad is a preacher in his retirement as a general contractor. The nastiest people I have ever met were "religious". That's the reason I am atheist.
Read he’d get 20 yrs for each count....he’s going away for awhile....but as I see it the entire family is screwed up.
Adults never consider their children in the criminal activities they plan and carry out. Never. And this particular family is no different than any other of those in the cesspool of celebrity.
I have a niece who was victim of childhood kidnapping/rape. The man was found guilty, released on appeal, less than a month later he kidnaps and kills another little girl in the next town over. He finally got the needle in New Mexico prison after decades of appeals. So I had to ask.
oh i’m aware. and Catholics still give them $$.
They recently caught many in the New Jersey districts.....it’s just never ending.
Yes, I understand.
I’m 62 years old, I’ve been saved for over 30 years, I’ve been in a Baptist Church environment the entire time, and the nastiest people I ever met were unsaved people who like to falsify claims against bible-believing Christians.
I sincerely hope he gets put in general. Get ALL that prison love.
I sadly do understand why now. One of the investigators said it was some of the most disturbing stuff he’d seen & that he had seen a lot.
The titles made my skin crawl.
Thats pretty much it in a nutshell.
If I watched or even heard in detail about the actual porn I would be scared for life.
I know his wife left the court room when they started showing the porn.
Pray for the jurors and all the others that had to witness the child porn. I’m sure they will need therapy and it should be paid for by the government. I doubt any of them wanted to be there.
You are absolutely correct. I imagine that seeing that would work on your mind.
I used to say that, but I have met people who were WAY worse since! LOL I never had a good opinion of Baptists, mostly because I grew up in the South and was a Catholic - southern protestants are, or used to be, very anti-catholic.
None of this necessarily disproves my point, however: Perhaps you never knew a truly religious person of faith and everyone around you was just taking advantage of the social situation. That’s what it always seemed like to me! (I used to do fortunetelling over the phone, right? And some of the calls we would get from religious folks on Sunday or Monday morning were truly hair-raising!)
Religion is often sadly used as a shield. “Gaming the system” came from a time when organized religion was “the system.”
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