Former reality star Josh Duggar sentenced to 12 years in prison for child pornography-nationwide

Former reality star Josh Dagger returned to federal court on Wednesday, where a judge sentenced him to 12.5 years in prison for child pornography.

Judge Timothy L. Brooks sentenced Dagger to a total of 151 months in prison.

The prosecutor had asked Dagger to imprison him for up to 20 years, but his lawyer demanded him five years in prison.

According to People magazine, Dagger’s father Jim Bob and his wife Anna were sitting in the front row of court when the sentence was handed down.

According to the publication, he often turned to his wife and smiled when he wasn’t taking notes on Wednesday.

Duggar, where a large family became the focus of TLC’s reality show Count with 19 childrenWas convicted of downloading and possessing child pornography last December. (On Wednesday, one count of his December convictions was withdrawn, and Duggar was convicted of one charge of deliberately receiving and possessing child pornography.)

TLC canceled Count with 19 children Following the exposure in 2015 that he molested four sisters and a babysitter. Authorities began investigating the abuse in 2006 after being advised by a friend of his family.

However, they concluded that the statute of limitations for possible claims had expired.

Dagger’s parents said he confessed and apologized for the caress. At that time, Dagger publicly apologized for his unspecified behavior and resigned as a lobbyist at the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group.

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Dagger later apologized for porn addiction and his wife’s affair, calling himself “the greatest hypocrite in history.”

A judge in a child pornography case determined that a jury could hear testimony in 2003 about how Dagger admitted to molesting four girls. A friend of her family testified that Dagger had told her about her abuse.

Federal officials said a Little Rock police detective began an investigation after discovering that child pornographic files were being shared by a computer tracked by Dagger. Federal agents testified that images depicting sexual abuse of children, including infants, were downloaded to the computer of a Duggar-owned car dealership in 2019.

Duggar’s lawyer claimed that someone else downloaded or uploaded the image to Duggar’s computer. But the jury wasn’t upset.

Dagger’s father, Jim Bob Dagger, who also appeared on reality shows, is running for a special election in a vacant state Senate in northwestern Arkansas, and the primary for that race is Tuesday. He used to work for the Arkansas House.

— — With a file from the Associated Press