Josh Duggar Downloaded Rape Videos Along With Child Sex Materials [Report]

It’s been over two months since Josh Duggar was convicted on child pornography charges.

The case has been making headlines since April of last year when Josh was arrested following a lengthy federal probe.

You would think that in all that time, e…

Josh Duggar: How His Phone (And Stupidity) Led to His Conviction

We are all grimly familiar with the twisted story of Josh Duggar.

He was found guilty of receiving and possessing child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) late last year.

There’s a lot that we all want to understand about this case — like how Josh tried to escape detection.

Josh’s phone didn’t have CSAM on it, but it ended up being a key part of how prosecutors proved their case.

Josh Duggar was under investigation in 2019, two years before his April 2021 arrest.

At the time, the infamous predator was using an Apple iPhone 8.

Alongside Josh’s personal laptop, an Apple MacBook, it would prove pivotal during hsi nine-day trial.

Josh’s computer was linked to his phone.

While neither his iPhone 8 nor his MacBook contained the horrific photos and videos of little girls’ lives being ruined, there were backups of his phone logs.

Photos, texts, and most importantly, GPS data from Josh’s phone were stored, which helped authorities to prove their case.

GPS locations, times, and dates helped to give investigators an extrmeely clear picture of where Josh was and when.

Why does that matter?

Because they were able to pinpoint where he was at times when his work computer was accessing CSAM.

Using peer-to-peer file sharing programs and an anonymous TOR browswer, Josh accessed this unspeakable material on May 14 and May 16 of 2019.

If Josh’s phone data had shown that he was at home or at the grocery store at those times, the trial might never have taken place at all.

Instead, the evidence showed that Josh was precisely where they knew that he was — in his office at work.

Without Josh’s phone data, his defense’s far-fetched arguments might have swayed one or two jurors.

They had claimed that either another person (that poor former employee whom the Duggars seemingly wished the frame) was in the office, or the computer was remotely hijacked.

Prosecution labeled these arguments a “fantasy,” and were able to prove their case by showing that Josh was physically in his office and using his phone.

It’s funny, because this is a great reminder of how much information our phones have about us.

There are unhinged conspiracy theorists who believe that life-saving vaccinations are just “5G chips” that let “them” track people.

There are many obvious layers of absurdity to that, but one is that, very simply, we all carry tracking devices on us at all times: our phones.

Fortunately, in this case, the tracking data and Josh’s absurd ineptitude helped prosecutors prove their case.

There was more, of course, including a Linux partition on Josh’s computer that was intended to obscure his crimes.

Most people with partitions use them for legal ends — like installing Windows on a Mac so that they can play PC games. Josh had other intentions.

Overall, it seems that Josh was so wrapped up in being part of a cult that he forgot that he is also answerable to the laws of men.

The steps that he took to protect himself from discovery didn’t hide him from federal authorities — only from his wife and family.

Honestly? This is one of those situations when we’re glad that he was so stupid. People trafficking in CSAM must face justice.

Josh Duggar Interrogation Tapes: What Did We Tell the FBI … And How Will It Affect His Appeal?

It’s been six weeks since Josh Duggar was convicted on child pornography charges, but we’re still learning new information about the investigation that finally put this predator behind bars.

Thanks to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by UK…

Josh Duggar: Caught in the Act in Creepy, Incriminating New Photos?

When Josh Duggar was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography millions of people — many of them survivors of sexual abuse or longtime critics of his controversial family — breathed a collective sigh of relief.

There was a brief hop…

Josh Duggar Stammers, Panics, Nearly Admits Guilt in Leaked FBI Audio

In November 2019, federal agents obtained a search warrant and raided the used car dealership in Arkansas at which Josh Duggar worked.

They did so because forensic evidence pointed to child p0rnography having been downloaded from an IP address that matched a computer there. 

At one point, these agents spoke to Duggar for 51 minutes, asking the former reality star and admitted cheater was he knew about these allegedly illegal materials of children under 12 years old.

We now know exactly what Josh said to them in response.

The Daily Mail has acquired the audio of Duggar’s conversation with authorities inside of his workplace office just over two years ago.

This was the moment where agents Gerald Faulkner and Howard Aycock spoke with the father of seven by his own volition.

Suffice it to say that he did not do himself any favors.

Before they had even told him anything about the basis investigation, Duggar can be heard on this tape asking:

Has someone been downloading child pornography?

That is a bizarre thing to ask under any circumstances, but especially unprompted and at your place of work.

At this point, the agents read Duggar his rights.

They asked if they could make an audio recording of the ensuing interview.

This is the recording which the aforementioned outlet then obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.

“I own this business. I also do some real estate as well,” Duggar explains to Faulkner and Aycock.

He was sounding calm and confident at the outset of the interview.

“My dad has commercial properties so I help with the management.”

“I dabble in a lot of things. This is, you know, this is probably my primary income as far as that goes.”

The group is sitting in a police vehicle for this talk, which quickly turns to Josh’s familiarity with computers, cell phones and technology.

Does he, for example, know about “peer2peer” programs such as Tor Browser that can be used to anonymously share movies, music and other files?

“I mean, I’m familiar with, I guess you could say,” Duggar responds.

Asked how many of his machines in the car dealership have such software (which can also be used to hide files on thhe Dark Web) downloaded on to them, he replies:

“Probably all.”

“We upload stuff for our cars and things like that,” Josh claimed.

“I’ve had a friend of mine that came and set us up with file sharing so we could do, you know, more encrypted type stuff.”

“He just said, it’s safer that way.”

Faulkner proceeds to tell Duggar that part of his job entailed “saving kids” after “Internet tips” alert his team to the presence of child pornography on a device.

This is about when Josh starts to panic.

“Is that what you’re saying? Is that what you’re saying is going on?’ he repeats.

“Is there some, is there something going on, on my devices,” a panicking Josh asks.

“Where that’s been something accessed or something downloaded or uploaded or something like that?”

Yeah, something like that.

Duggar, who was convicted on two counts of child sex abuse last month, continues to stumble and stammer from there.

“Does it, does it include, so did it mark this IP address? Is that basically what you’re saying? Yes. Okay,” he says to the agents.

“So does it, so I guess in the scope of your investigation, is there going to be, I guess, I mean, you’ll narrow it down?”

Faulkner then issues a warning to Duggar.

He cautions him by explaining that the “guys running around… are computer forensic analysts” and then will find any explicit material, even if it’s been deleted.

(At trial, we learned that they did just that)

As the conversation turns ever more tense, Faulkner tells his suspect how a task force investigator detected graphic images and videos being shared in the Western Arkansas area.

The investigator was able to connect then directly with Duggar’s office computer.

“These are somebody’s little boy or little girl at the end of the day. Our main objective is to find out who’s doing it,” Faulkner says.

“I appreciate the work you guys do,” replies Duggar, continuing as follows:

“I guess I have, I mean, I have quite a few questions about it, but I don’t know, you know, how much you can divulge.”

“I’m just, I’m curious, you’re saying there’s images being uploaded or images being downloaded.”

Faulkner reveals very few details, but makes it clear to Duggar that this is only real chance to confess before things get messier and more complicated:

“Once we leave here today, it’s the end of our conversation.”

Duggar chooses NOT to cooperate further.

He didn’t stop there, adding in a stuttering voice:

“I’ve watched my friends, you know, answer things and they get them for conspiracy or for something.”

Uh-huh.

Incredibly, Duggar adds at this point:

And I’m just, I’m not, federal statutes are broad and there’s a lot of things to it. And I’m not gonna say anything that’s gonna incriminate me or anything at all.

I’m not denying guilt and I’m not, I’m not saying that I’m, you know, I mean, as far as anything goes, I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna say the wrong thing.

I don’t wanna say that I’m guilty or not. I’m just not saying, you know, on searching, finding, accessing inappropriate content at some point, right, at any point in my life.

While this discussion took place, the FBI’s computer forensics experts discovered the answers they were seeking when they examined Duggar’s HP computer.

They found it had been set up with a dual-operating system that created a partition.

It was behind this partition where Duggar was able to hide the many videos and images of children being assaulted that eventually led to his conviction.

They also determined this section of the device could only accessed by rebooting and entering the password intel1988 …

… Which just happens to be the same code as Duggar’s online banking account and his family Instagram and Twitter accounts.

What a gross idiot.

Federal agents, of courrse, returned on April 2021 to arrest the 19 Kids and Counting alum on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography.

He was found guilty by a federal jury in December and faces up to 20 years imprisonment and fines of up to $250,000 on each count.

Last we heard, Duggar has filed an appeal and is asking for either and acquittal or a new trial.

Assuming this appeal fails, he will be officialy sentenced some time early this spring.