Josh Duggar is getting out of jail as he faces charges for receiving and possessing child porn. Judge Christy Comstock ruled that he could leave the detention center he’s called home for the past week. He’ll be in the custody of Lacount and Maria Reber, close family friends and designated third party custodians. He’ll be confined to their home and monitored with GPS tracking.
Judge Comstock said that she couldn’t in good conscience release the reality star to his pregnant wife, Anna, and their six children. However, Josh will have unlimited contact with his kids in Anna’s presence. He can’t be around any other minors, including his nieces and nephews. The judge told him, “Don’t make me regret this decision,” before adjourning.
Meanwhile, we found exactly what Josh did. According to Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Gerald Faulkner, who testified at his detention hearing for the prosecution, Josh downloaded computer files depicting child sex abuse on May 14th, 15th, and 16th of 2019. A Little Rock police detective flagged the files, which were eventually traced to Josh’s computer at his job, the Wholesale Motorcar dealership. Faulkner said that one file – which showed children from 18 months to 12 years of age – was “in the top five of the worst of the worst that [he’d] ever had to examine.”
- And Josh apparently told on himself when the homeland security officials raided his job. He asked them, “What is this about? Has someone been downloading child pornography?” When he was asked about seeing or having it in his possession, he said, “I’d rather not answer that question.”
- Here’s the real kicker – Josh had “Covenant Eyes” on his computer. The accountability software for porn addicts monitors and alerts Anna about any objectionable Internet use. But because he was on a password-protected network, it wasn’t able to detect his proclivities.
Source: People
