Supreme Court rejects appeal from ex-reality star Josh Duggar

Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court connected Monday rejected an entreaty from Josh Duggar, a erstwhile reality tv prima convicted of downloading kid intersexual maltreatment images.

Duggar was connected nan TLC show “19 Kids and Counting” pinch his ample family earlier his 2021 conviction.

The tribunal did not elaborate connected nan denial, arsenic is typical.

Federal authorities investigated aft constabulary successful Little Rock, Arkansas, recovered kid intersexual maltreatment worldly was being shared by a machine traced to him. Investigators testified that images depicting nan intersexual maltreatment of children, including toddlers, were downloaded successful 2019 onto a machine astatine a car dealership Duggar owned. He was sentenced to 12 and one-half years successful prison.

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Lower courts person upheld his conviction, rejecting Duggar’s statement that his attorneys should person been capable to inquire astir nan anterior sex-offense condemnation of a erstwhile worker of nan dealership who had utilized nan aforesaid computer. Duggar’s attorneys did not inquire nan erstwhile worker to attest aft nan judge ruled they could not mention nan anterior conviction.

TLC canceled “19 Kids and Counting” successful 2015 pursuing allegations that Duggar had molested 4 of his sisters and a babysitter years earlier. Authorities began investigating aft receiving a extremity from a family friend but concluded that nan statute of limitations connected immoderate imaginable charges had expired.

Duggar’s parents said aft nan allegations resurfaced successful 2015 that he had confessed to nan fondling and apologized privately. Duggar past apologized publically for unspecified behaviour and resigned arsenic a lobbyist for nan Family Research Council, a blimpish Christian group.