Prosecutors accused the former reality TV star of downloading video footage and images of children as young as 7 being “violated” and “abused.” Defense attorneys argued his work computer was accessed
reality TV star Josh Duggar on Thursday was found guilty of receiving and possessing child sexual abuse materials.
Duggar, 33, was indicted and arrested in April 2021 before he was released on the order that he stay at a third-party residence without contact with minors except his own children. “The entire case was made up on the premise that … given a reasonable view of the evidence, there could not be any other conclusion than Josh Duggar did this,” Roberts said, adding the defense took portions of the evidence and “tried to exploit it as far as they possibly could.”
On that day, Duggar talked to investigators in their vehicle. The jury heard three audio segments from that nearly hourlong conversation, during which Duggar expressed familiarity with “peer to peer” file sharing networks, anonymous browsers, and at one point asked whether their investigation was about someone downloading “child porn” — before the investigators had even mentioned the nature of their search.
In one case, Fottrell said he found a photo taken May 14, 2019, of a YouTube video pulled up on the HP’s desktop in the Wholesale Motorcars’ office. A reflection in the computer’s screen reveals whoever is sitting behind the keyboard is wearing a baseball cap with the Wholesale Motorcars logo. The image was taken shortly before child sexual abuse material was downloaded on the computer’s Linux partition and viewed.
She said information about the office’s internet configuration, how the explicit content was viewed, and the method used to install the partition and other applications pointed to a remote user accessing child sexual abuse content on the HP.
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