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Josh Duggar (m. Anna Keller)
Eldest Duggar baby Josh was born March 3, 1988. He too grew to become a conservative activist, campaigning for the Household Analysis Council.
He stepped down after outdated police information surfaced in 2015 revealing that he had been accused of molesting a number of women, together with his sisters Jessa and Jill, when he was a youngster. Jessa defended her brother in a sit-down with Fox Information that June, insisting that the worst names individuals had been calling Josh had been “so overboard and a lie, actually. I imply individuals get mad at me for saying that, however I can say this as a result of I used to be one of many victims.”
His spouse additionally caught by him, together with after he admitted to being untrue. When he checked right into a therapy heart in 2016, his mother and father known as it “a vital first step in recovering and therapeutic.” Dad and mom of three—daughter Mackynzie (Oct. 8, 2009) and sons Michael (June 15, 2011) and Marcus ( June 2, 2013)—when the scandal broke, Anna gave start to their fourth baby, Meredith, on July 16, 2015, the identical day TLC canceled 19 Youngsters. Their fifth baby, son Mason Garrett, was born Sept. 12, 2017, daughter Maryella Hope arrived Nov. 27, 2019 and child No. 7, Madyson Lily, was born Oct. 23, 2021.
In a federal indictment filed in April 2021, Josh was charged with one depend of receipt and possession of kid pornography. He pleaded not responsible on each counts. In 2022, Josh was discovered responsible on each counts, and sentenced to 12 and a half years in jail.
