Josh Duggar will be spending an extra two months in prison for his 12-year sentence for child pornography. The former 19 Kids And Counting star will be released in October 2032, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Duggar was previously sentenced to 151 months in May 2022. Duggar is currently serving that sentence at FCI Seagoville in Texas. He was placed in solitary confinement, last month, after being found with a contraband cell phone.
At the time of Duggar’s arrest, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Arkansas said in a press release, “According to court documents, Joshua James Duggar, 33, allegedly used the internet to download child sexual abuse material. Duggar allegedly possessed this material, some of which depicts the sexual abuse of children under the age of 12, in May 2019.”
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As part of his sentencing, Duggar is not allowed to have any unsupervised contact with minors. Court documents obtained by Us in June 2022 state, “If there is a concern about the potential for inadvertent contact with a minor at a particular place, function, or event, then the Defendant shall get approval from the U.S. Probation Office before attending any such place, function or event.” Additionally, once Duggar is released, he cannot “possess, use, or have access to a computer or any other electronic device that has Internet or photograph storage capabilities without prior advance notice and approval of the U.S. Probation Office.”
Duggar’s wife, Anna, recently gave birth to the couple’s seventh baby. Altogether they share Mackynzie, 13, Michael, 11, Marcus, 9, Meredith, 7, Mason, 5, and Maryella, 3, and their youngest, Madyson. Duggar and his lawyers are currently seeking to reverse his conviction. They argued his case during a federal appeals court hearing on the matter in February. They claim investigators violated his rights by taking the phone he was using to call his lawyer. This is when they found the child pornography.
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