Josh was found guilty of receiving and possession of child sexual abuse materials.
After the verdict was read, he was handcuffed and led out of the court. Anna stood in the front row of the gallery with other family members.
The verdict on both counts is the latest fall from grace for the man who gained fame and a conservative following for his time on the show 19 Kids and Counting. Their large household and conservative beliefs led to spinoffs.
Up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each count are the punishments for the counts. He is expected to be sentenced in a few months.
He was indicted and arrested in April of 2021 and was released on the order that he stay at a third-party residence without contact with minor children except his own children.
The prosecutors said that the children as young as 7 years old were abused and exploited. There were videos of children engaging in sexually explicit acts.
The defense argued that a remote user accessed the computer. Prosecutors maintained that the child molester was an advanced computer user who used sophisticated software to view and remove child sexual abuse content.
Four years after a Fox News interview in which he admitted to molesting five girls when he was a teenager, the investigation into the family began when authorities connected downloads of child sexual abuse materials to an address in Springdale, Arkansas. The family said in the interview that he and the girls received counseling and that they did not believe there was a future threat of wrongdoing.
On November 8, 2019, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Gerald Faulkner testified that he and other agents, as well as forensic analysts, executed a search warrant at Duggar's business.
The investigators talked to the person in the vehicle. The jury heard three audio segments from that nearly hourlong conversation, during which Duggar expressed familiarity with peer to peer file sharing networks, anonymous browsers, and at one point asked whether their investigation was about someone who downloaded child porn.
I am not denying guilt, I told them. I don't want to say that I'm guilty of accessing inappropriate content at some point in my life.
The jury asked to hear the audio recordings again.
James Fottrell, a top forensics investigator at the Department of Justice who specializes in fighting child exploitation, testified that he discovered a Linux partition on the desktop of Josh Duggar, which can be used to split it into two separate operating systems. Fottrell said that someone would have to be at the desk to tell the computer to install and boot up the Linux system, as well as setting up applications that don't come with Linux, including anonymous browsers and a media player.
Fottrell said he found child sexual abuse materials in multiple folders. He testified that he found several images of a girl that were very sexually explicit in one folder.
Fottrell told the court that full-size versions of the computer existed.
He told the court that he reviewed the backup of the old phone and laptop to see if he could identify the location of the child sexual abuse materials.
Fottrell said he found a picture of a video on the HP desktop in the Wholesale Motorcars office. Someone wearing a baseball cap with the Wholesale Motorcars logo is sitting behind the keyboard. The image was taken before child sexual abuse material was downloaded on the computer.
A photo taken on the same day shows a man in a baseball cap with his wife on a shopping trip. No other employees worked at the car lot at that time.
Fottrell said the backup showed that a thumbnail of a nearly 30-minute video was created just two minutes before a photo of a sticky note on the desk in Wholesale Motorcars' office was taken.
William Clayman asked who was present at the car lot when child pornography was downloaded.
Fottrell told the court last week that Josh was his son.
A witness for the defense, digital forensics expert, testified that her review of the evidence showed that remote access to the HP was probable.
Information about the office's internet configuration, how the explicit content was viewed, and the method used to install the partition and other applications pointed to a remote user accessing child sexual abuse content on the HP.
Bush told Clayman that she did not include the texts and images from the backup in her analysis.
Clayman said that they agree on a lot of things, and he would ask Bush about the efficacy and methodology of her investigation. He pointed out possible discrepancies from Bush's testimony to Gelfand.
She didn't testify about the password she and Fottrell agreed was "Intel 1988", which is the password to the Linux partition and can be seen in his emails and on the Notes app of his personal computer.
The prosecution wanted to know why Bush didn't consider reports from the anti-pornography software Covenant Eyes.
Covenant Eyes gaveaccountability reports to the couple on their internet usage. The reports dated for April and May of this year show that multiple blocked attempts by Duggar to download the anonymous browser was found on the Linux partition.
Bush agreed with Clayman that child sexual abuse content was on the computer at some point and that someone deleted the content over the course of three days in May 2019.
His lawyers argue that he wouldn't have had the technical knowledge to use a sophisticated operating system. Clint Branham, a friend of the former reality TV star, testified on Monday that he is a computer power user with more technological knowledge than the average person.
