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USA Today reports:
The Supreme Court has closed the book on Josh Duggar’s child pornography case. The United States’ highest court denied the disgraced reality TV star’s appeal to his May 2022 sentencing, according to docket records viewed by USA TODAY.
Duggar, who originally rose to fame on the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in April 2021 and was later found guilty on one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography.
At his sentencing, Duggar received 12 1/2 years behind bars, a $10,000 fine and orders to attend a mandatory “sex offense-specific treatment program.”
Mediaite reports:
The child porn conviction was only one element of Duggar’s downfall as a prominent Christian conservative figure. In 2015, he was the first celebrity name revealed in the Ashley Madison hack; Duggar had two accounts at the site where married people sought extramarital affairs.
Before that, he was forced to resign from his position at the conservative Family Research Council when he publicly admitted to molesting several young girls. The snowballing legal troubles led to the cancellation of 19 Kids and Counting.
The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from former reality TV star Josh Duggar regarding his child pornography conviction.
Duggar was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison in 2022 after child sex abuse materials were found on his work computer.https://t.co/t9GajiYMSl
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