The former reality television star was convicted of downloading child sexual abuse images in 2021.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar , a former reality television starDuggar was on the TLC show “19 Kids and Counting” with his large family before his 2021 conviction.Federal authorities investigated after police in Little Rock , Arkansas , found child sexual abuse material was being shared by a computer traced to him.
the sexual abuse of children, including toddlers, were downloaded in 2019 onto a computer at a car dealership Duggar owned. He was sentenced to 12 and one-half years in prison.Lower courts have upheld his conviction, rejecting Duggar’s argument that his attorneys should have been able to ask about the prior sex-offense conviction of a former employee of the dealership who had used the same computer.
years earlier. Authorities began investigating after receiving a tip from a family friend but concluded that the statute of limitations on any possible charges had expired. Duggar’s parents said after the allegations resurfaced in 2015 that he had confessed to the fondling and apologized privately. Duggar then apologized publicly for unspecified behavior and resigned as a lobbyist for the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group.
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