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He stepped down after outdated police data surfaced in 2015 revealing that he had been accused of molesting a number of women, together with his sisters Jessa and Jill, when he was a young person. Jessa defended her brother in a sit-down with Fox Information that June, insisting that the worst names folks had been calling Josh had been “so overboard and a lie, actually. I imply folks 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 middle in 2016, his dad and mom referred to as it “an important first step in recovering and therapeutic.”Mother and father 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 Children. Their fifth baby, son Mason Garett, 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 a depend apiece 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.
