Former TLC reality star/antigay activist/used car salesman Josh Duggar can now add “convicted child sex predator” to his esteemed resumé.
The 33-year-old father of seven was just found guilty by a jury of receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography. He now faces 20 years in prison plus a $250,000 fine for each count.
Related: Josh Duggar’s child porn trial kicks off and the testimony is more disturbing than anyone expected
After the verdict was read, Judge Timothy Brooks said sentencing will happen in about four months. Duggar was immediately taken into custody. His attorney says they plan to appeal.
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STATEMENT from the prosecution on #JoshDuggar guilty verdict. #NWAnews pic.twitter.com/xVTnYnvkFr
— Samantha Boyd (@samanthaboyd98) December 9, 2021
The dramatic and, at times, disturbing six-day trial saw two witnesses called for the defense and 10 witnesses called for the prosecution. Among them was Duggar’s father, current Arkansas state Senate candidate Jim Bob Duggar, and family friends Jim and Bobye Holt.
Duggar appeared on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” until 2015, when the show was canceled after he admitted to molesting four of his sisters and a babysitter. The network has not issued any comment on today’s verdict.
Here’s what Twitter is saying about the whole thing…
A lot of the “save our children” voices are very silent about this #joshduggar case
— ??mom?? (@thewildwatsons) December 3, 2021
Jim Bob should be right beside #JoshDuggar pic.twitter.com/SWxRIQOzjG
— Karen™ (@ManagerSpeaking) December 9, 2021
I wish @TLC would televise Josh Duggar's trial. They can title it 40 years in the clink and counting.
— Tiffany (@iamtgar) December 3, 2021
My bestie and I after this guilty verdict: #joshduggar #duggartrial pic.twitter.com/qfNZn5Mikm
— kk (@Heykk17) December 9, 2021
Josh Duggar, whose retrograde views on LGBT people I find to be abhorrent, was railroaded by a liberal-run justice system.
By Glenn Greenwald https://t.co/ZFeXspwsOD
— Mahogany Elite Travel Client (@mattgonter) December 9, 2021
Josh Duggar, known child rapist, has been on trial for child pornography this week. Not a peep from the @GOP or media sources…but I’ve heard plenty about a successful black woman buying a Le Creuset pan. Why TF is that?
— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) December 8, 2021
This is the actual shed Josh Duggar was using as an office to watch child abuse videos from. In case you needed the visual for how obviously guilty he is. pic.twitter.com/sC5oioXETX
— Becca (@rebecca_walk) December 7, 2021
Let's not forget that while the Holts testified against #JoshDuggar – and that's amazing – they are still bad people. They still knew what was happening back in 2002 and did nothing. They still wanted their daughter to marry him even after knowing everything.
— SaturdayMorningPurple (@saturday_purple) December 6, 2021
#JoshDuggar #duggarfamily Time to get a new set of wheels! Praise justice! pic.twitter.com/HMmYglP4hK
— Marc McFadden (@theMarcMcFadden) December 9, 2021
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Bosch
It should be clear by now that pedophiles use homophobia as an alibi for their piety.
Cam
Witnesses said they told the Duggar family that Josh had tried to molest their young daughters and the parents didn’t care or didn’t want to hear it.
Some of the images he had on his computer were of kids under 1 year of age being sexually exploited. This is the family Republicans held up as one to emulate.
Essie
This is excellent news!! I really hope he gets at least 10 years in jail and lifetime sex offender status. Apparently, it will be about four months before sentencing is done and I hope he is in jail the entire time. Seriously, I worry for his daughters because that wife of his will not protect them.
And, yes, Jim Bob and the mother need to be held accountable for doing nothing when their minor son was known to be molesting young girls.
ffmikey
I wouldn’t be surprised if other siblings are also sexually disfunction able. To see their parents pounding out a new child every year for at least the last nineteen years has got to affect the children negatively especially those just entering puberty. I can understand some parents wanting large families but nineteen kids and counting is just crazy. And did his parents encourage or at least ignore his deviant sexual urges that at times involved his sisters.
Lastly, although he is butt ugly I would not be surprised if he becomes very popular in not only the County Jail where he is being held awaiting sentencing but in the state prison where he will be spending about twenty years.
Perhaps a new reality show is in the making, “19 Different Cellmates and Counting.”
balttymore
This should of never happened….He should of been in prison for what he did to his OWN sisters!!! His parents should also be in jail for covering it up
Phillip
Perhaps this guilty verdict will wipe off that smirk on his perp photo face when he’s finally sent to prison and has to face the other prisoners who will eventually find out what he’s in for.
Mack
So now Family Research Council can brag they had a convicted child Sex Predator working for them. Personally I think they have more than this one though.
Jack
How warped is this family to hide behind God, coverup some of the most heinous crimes (not to mention sins) possible and then RUN for office? If Arkansas elects Jim Bob and Wonky Eyed Sarah F*ckabee Sanders…they deserve the crooked hell they get. Josh can add bottom to his endless sexual resume. (As if he hasn’t already). (In Italian Accent: It’s time to take out the trash.)
cuteguy
Why hasn’t Fox News or that Family Council bs that this m0ron was working for are silent. And why is the GOP getting a pass? If it was the other way around, the GOP would be pouncing all over the Dems. The Dems are weak and need to capitalize on this criminal hypocrite and the KKK/GOP
Kangol2
Where’s Josh’s diehard defender Mike Huckabee? Where are all the other Arkansas and DC Republicans who supported this monster despite the credible allegations of child molestation? In addition to molesting his sisters and other children, as Cam notes, Josh Duggar had images of infants being molested on his computer. Where’s Q-anon, which is so obsessed with rooting out alleged pedophilia in Hollywood and Washington, yet has a notorious pedophile, Josh Duggar, and his enabling parents and supporters, right in front of their eyes?
jcool
i guess there will be an empty seat at the kid’s table at the duggar christmas dinner this year.
Tombear
I hope a bubba in Prison teaches Joshee about mansex with no lube.