Josh is facing a possible 40 year sentence. The judge should consider his past actions against his three sisters. IMHO Sooner or later Josh was going to victimize another kid. Heck it may have already happened and not reported.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Anna remarried. Probably someone from her church that’s willing to care for and support 7 kids.
I doubt she will ever divorce him. She’s been brainwashed since the day she was born and believes that he is truly innocent. Add to that a little soupçon of Christians being persecuted, and you can see that her mind is a pool of sludge.
Lots of “Christian” prayers for healing and asking for strength and all the other happy horseshit that’s worthless because they’re going to appeal.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/josh-duggar-guilty-verdict-duggar-214707035.html?guccounter=1
“Today was difficult for our family,” the statement began. “Our hearts go out to the victims of child abuse or any kind of exploitation. We are thankful for the hard work of law enforcement, including investigators, forensic analysts, prosecutors, and all others involved who save kids and hold accountable those responsible for their abuse.”
“Josh’s actions have rippled far beyond the epicenter of the offense itself,” the statement later added. “Children have scars, but his family is also suffering the fallout of his actions. Our hearts are sensitive to the pains Josh’s wife, Anna, and their seven children have already endured and will continue to process in the future. This trial has felt more like a funeral than anything else. Josh’s family has a long road ahead. We stand with them, we are praying for them, and we will seek to support them however we can during this dark time.”
“We appreciate the jury’s lengthy deliberations, we respect the jury’s verdict, and we intend to appeal,” defense attorneys Justin Gelfand, Ian Murphy and Travis Story said.
Barf.
Well on the bright side once he gets released from prison and then gets shot trying to fight someone with a gun at a protest, finally people will be walking around with signs that say JOSH DUGGAR - HERO
They’re “Christains” not Christians.
I mean, at least they didn’t claim he was innocent. They said Josh’s “actions have rippled beyond the epicenter of the offense itself.”
Then what’s the appeal for?
SOP for lawyers.
Brings in another paycheck. The Duggar’s have a lot of Reality Show money.
Josh isn’t being forced to appeal and his family isn’t required to support it.
Correct, not everyone appeals. On the other hand, if he thinks the trial wasn’t fair, it’s perfectly legitimate to appeal (even if you are actually guilty). The Judge made some evidentiary rulings that would be proper to challenge, such as letting in the evidence of his molestation of his sister (?) or whatever the prior bad act was. I don’t know enough to say whether I think the judge was right or wrong on that question, but it does seem like a proper issue to raise on appeal. I’m sure there were others.
You can believe someone did something but shouldn’t be punished so severely. I know a lot of religious groups, including the Amish, aren’t so keen on sending people to prison even for serious crimes as they’d rather let God and their faith work through it. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for that point of view but it does exist. Anyway, I will admit to being a little surprised Josh’s supporters didn’t claim the charges are false, he was railroaded, etc., etc.
Was that allowed as part of the trial process, or as support for the sentence given? If the former, as much as I loathe the situation, it actually should not have been considered. If it was used to determine the sentence (“He’s done crap like this before, let’s lock him up as long as we possibly can!”) that’s a different thing and I’m all for it.
I hope his wife gets tested for every STD he may have brought home.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/12/09/josh-duggar-guilty-trial-verdict-reality-star-child-pornography-case/8868921002/
“Over the objections of Duggar’s defense team, the judge in the child porn case ruled that jurors could hear testimony about how in 2003, Duggar admitted to molesting the girls. A family friend also testified that Duggar told her about the abuse.”
With impeccable timing, Josh Duggar’s former employer the Family Research Council tweeted a link to this yesterday:
https://frcblog.com/2021/12/trend-toward-normalizing-pedophilia-must-be-halted/
You first, FRC.
While it is indeed the basis for an appeal (and the typical rules of evidence don’t let you try to convict somebody by showing that they’ve done other bad things in their past), the rules regarding child sexual abuse are written very broadly, based specifically on the idea that molesters tend to do it repeatedly and that this is usually the best way to prove their behavior, since other physical evidence is often absent.
TL/DR: This is the basis for an appeal, but it is futile.
That article does a nice job of cherry-picking the facts as well as making VERY vague accusations: " today’s elementary school lessons include material that would make most adults blush." - I read the linked article, and it referred to a HIGH SCHOOL library. From the linked article, the books in question do sound, well, unnecessary.
And the reference to the ODU professor: I read a more balanced article in which it’s made clear that while he does NOT condone any kind of act against children, he differentiates between those who have (or intend to) offend, and those who have those feelings, do NOT wish to act on them, and need help dealing with it.
“we respect the jury’s verdict, and we intend to appeal”
Then no you didn’t.
Sounds like Josh Duggar’s family might have benefitted twenty years ago from talking to that professor.
One of the daughters - Jill - and her husband put out a statement. Jill was one who had been abused.
Ol’ Jim Bob must have been screaming after he read that.