Will Josh Duggar Get Maximum Prison Sentence For Child Porn Because He's Famous??
10.03.2022 - 01:15
/ perezhilton.com
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The Josh Duggar case isn’t over quite yet. There’s still the sentencing to go, and if you’re anything like us, you’re waiting with baited breath to see how long this monster will have to stay behind bars.
From what we’ve read, the charges he was found guilty on, receipt and possession of child porn, each carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. But how long will he actually have to serve?
We’ve been thinking the maximum he was staring down was 40 years. We’re no math geniuses, but we can add 20 + 20. But according to a legal expert, there’s no chance of that because the sentences will be served concurrently, not consecutively — meaning he gets to serve both at the same time. Huh.
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That expert, Beverly Hills family and criminal law attorney Adam Michael Sacks, spoke to The Sun on Tuesday to help non-lawyers like us get ready for what’s likely coming. He explained:
We can’t imagine anyone NOT being influenced by the victim statements. Specifically we’re thinking about two big witness testimonies.
First, there’s what James Fottrell, director of the DOJ’s High Technology Investigative Unit, told the court about the images Josh is accused of having. Just photos of children would be bad enough, but the video series titled “Daisy’s Destruction” was described as the horrifying torture and rape of an abducted baby girl. Fottrell said:
DHS Special Agent Gerald Faulkner agreed, saying:
The other witness statement we can’t get out of our head is that of Bobye Holt, the Duggar family friend and mother of several of Josh’s child molestation victims from back when he was a teenager. She took the stand and had to describe Josh’s