UPDATE: Josh Duggar’s cause of arrest revealed to be child pornography
Antigay activist, former reality star and admitted molester Josh Duggar has been arrested and is being held without bond in an Arkansas jail.
A representative for the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed that the former star of 19 Kids and Counting was arrested by Homeland Security on Thursday, April 29.
The rep did not share the reason for his arrest, and online jail records do not indicate the charges, reports People.
And with Duggar, it’s really anyone’s guess.
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The last we heard of him in June 2020, the Arkansas Supreme Court had declined to review a lower court’s ruling dismissing his lawsuit against police for releasing his criminal records pertaining to that time he molested two of his sisters in their sleep.
In 2015, the celebrity gossip rag In Touch reported that, in 2006, Josh fondled several young girls, including two of his own sisters, while they slept. Not only that, but his parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, knew about it and tried to cover it up.
At the time the story broke, the Duggars were at the peak of their popularity with the hit TLC reality series 19 Kids and Counting, which chronicled daily life in their extremely antigay Baptist household.
Afterwards, Josh admitted to the molestations but insisted that God had forgiven him. Then he checked into a sex rehab clinic. But not before losing his cushy job as at the antigay hate group Family Research Council.
TLC canceled the Duggars’ show, and Josh quickly filed two lawsuits: one against In Touch for outing him as a child molester, and one against police in Springdale and Washington counties for invasion of privacy after they released his criminal records after receiving a Freedom of Information Act.
In 2017, a judge threw out his lawsuit against In Touch, noting that the First Amendment protected the magazine because the information it published was factual.
Then in 2018, a different judge threw out his lawsuit against Springdale and Washington counties, noting that state law does not prohibit the release of a person’s criminal records, even if they were a juvenile at the time of the offense.
The judge also questioned why Josh was complaining about invasion of privacy when he and his family had been the subjects of a reality show for years and years.
Back in 2013, Duggar took a job with the vehemently anti-gay Family Research Council, an organization that has “spent decades attacking same-sex couples and their families, as well as the families of LGBT young people,” according to GLAAD.
His arrest comes shortly after his wife, Anna, announced the couple are expecting their seventh child.
UPDATE: Josh Duggar’s cause of arrest revealed to be child pornography
Chrisk
The douche has that smug look you see from many Rethuglicans. The “I may be a hypocrite and a POS but you can’t touch me” look. God forgives me and all my dumb cult followers will give me a pass anyways.
So glad that sick show is off the air. Turning women into human baby factories should be made illegal.
Fahd
Reality TV seems to be about people of extremes – otherwise people wouldn’t watch, I guess.
For the sake of his children, I just hope there’s money or someone else around to take care of them all. He might be resorting to criminal behavior to provide for all those children – welfare in Arkansas probably isn’t nearly enough.
lykeitiz
The internet says it’s “receiving and possessing child pornography.”
jcool
he’s going to hate prison. everyone is over 18
Bromancer7
He was arrested for possession of kiddie porn. And not a single person is shocked.
Sanjo
Seven kids will be looking for a new daddy. Hey, that would be a great theme for a reality show. “Are You My Daddy?”
barryaksarben
focus on the family ? lol what a bunch of perverts
Caddy4J
He should’ve been thrown under the jail when he was caught touching his sisters. I guess Ashley Madison was just in it for the coin, because really, would you F that guy??? This is sickening, Look at the upbringing, they were brought up in. The dads a freak while the mom looks the other way. It’s a cult that doesn’t believe in contraception. I guess once you’re married into the cult you “ stand by your man“ (Sorry) I feel sorry for his wife, all his children as well as the seventh child to be born soon. They probably didn’t have a choice. The creepy grandaddy needs to be financially responsible for his pedophile son children be financially responsible for his grandkids. This is just a tip of the iceberg, one of those 19 children are going to break and write a tell-all and it will be jaw breaking. Daddy will be exposed.
Kangol2
He ought to run to replace Ronna Romney McDaniel as the next head of the RNC. He embodies all their values in one utterly vile person.
WillParkinson
Wonder if he’s sharing the ones he took of his sisters.
cuteguy
This what happens in cults. All religions are cults. They cultivate this disgusting behavior