“We were able to sit through the trial to hear the evidence for ourselves,” they noted in a joint statement on Instagram. Joy-Anna and her husband, Austin Forsyth, also said they agreed with the guilty verdict. We are also saddened for Josh’s family, his wife and precious children.” Josh Duggar and his wife, Anna Duggar, welcomed their seventh child amid the child porn scandal.
Jinger Duggar praised the jury for their decision, writing in part in a lengthy statement on Instagram, “We are saddened for the victims of horrific child abuse. Several of Josh’s siblings spoke out in support of his conviction. However, the Department of Justice said a family friend testified during the trial that Josh had discussed downloading software to up the privacy on his computer, according to The Post. He ultimately installed a password-protected partition on his hard drive that he used to download porn. Duggar flashed a smile in his mugshot even though he had just been found guilty. The defense argued that someone else downloaded the porn onto the embattled TV star’s work computer and Josh pleaded not guilty. In May 2021, a federal agent testified that at least 65 images of child porn were on the Josh’s computer, including a two-minute video that showed a man sexually abusing two girls aged between 5 and 10 years old. Josh Duggar was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday.
