1. Josh Duggar served as the executive director of FRC Action, a lobbying political action committee sponsored by the Family Research Council, from June 2013 to May 2015.
41 Facts About Josh Duggar
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Josh Duggar resigned from the position after he was reported to have molested multiple underage girls, including four of his siblings, when he was aged between 12 and 16.
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Josh Duggar was found guilty on all charges on December 9,2021.
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Josh Duggar was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on May 25,2022.
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Josh Duggar was born on March 3,1988, in the city of Tontitown in Washington County, Arkansas, to James Robert and Michelle Annette Ruark Duggar.
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For most of his youth, Josh Duggar was homeschooled and passed Arkansas's state test for a general equivalency diploma at the age of 16.
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Josh Duggar's wedding was featured in an episode broadcast on January 25,2009, which included the planning, preparation, rehearsal, ceremony and reception.
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When Josh Duggar was a teenager, his father, Jim Bob Josh Duggar, was a two-term Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
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Josh Duggar has been active in conservative politics; while running a car dealership he worked as a part-time political consultant in 2007 under the business name Strategic Political Services.
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In 2012, Josh Duggar addressed rallies for the Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.
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FRC president Tony Perkins said that by hiring Josh Duggar they hoped to appeal to more young people by tapping into the popularity of 19 Kids and Counting.
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Josh Duggar further stated, "The big part of Josh's focus is going to be building our grass-roots across the country".
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Josh Duggar campaigned for Senate candidates in Kansas, Mississippi, and Virginia before the 2014 midterm elections.
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Josh Duggar described his family as the "epitome of conservative values" and advocated for what he termed "family-centered" and conservative Christian viewpoints, including opposition to abortion, divorce, and gay marriage.
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Josh Duggar has been referred to as an "anti-gay activist" by GLAAD, a pro-LGBT rights organization.
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Josh Duggar touched the breasts and genital region of his sisters on multiple occasions while they were sleeping, and sometimes when they were awake.
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The Holts informed their daughter, Kaeleigh, whom Josh Duggar had been courting.
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Josh Duggar wrote an angry note about the matter and stored it between the pages of a book.
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Josh Duggar was ultimately sent away from home for three months.
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Jim Bob told police that during this time Josh Duggar stayed at the Veterans' affairs Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, allegedly attending a counseling program run by a Christian ministry that involved physical labor.
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However, Michelle Duggar would later tell police that Josh was not involved in counseling, instead working under a family friend to help remodel the building.
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In Jill Duggar's memoir Counting the Cost, she says her parents told her that Josh had a temporary construction job with family friends.
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Jim Bob later claimed that Hutchens was told the entire story and that Josh Duggar admitted to Hutchens that he had molested several children and apologized.
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In 2004 and 2006, the first four television specials featuring the Josh Duggar family were released.
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Josh Duggar anonymously emailed Oprah Winfrey's production company, Harpo Studios, as the Duggar family was scheduled to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Jim Bob told them that Josh Duggar had molested five underage girls between 2002 and 2003, when he was 14 and 15 years old.
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Several family members said there had been no incidents since Josh Duggar returned to the home in late 2003, that they felt safe in their home, and that they had forgiven Josh Duggar for his past behavior.
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Josh Duggar resigned his position at FRC Action the same day.
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Josh Duggar stated that he had "acted inexcusably" as a teen and was "deeply sorry" for what he called his wrongdoings.
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In February 2016, Dillon chose to drop the lawsuit after evidence showed that Josh Duggar was not in Philadelphia at the time.
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Josh Duggar was arrested and booked into the Washington County Jail.
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US Chief Magistrate Judge Erin L Wiedemann said that, if Duggar were to be awarded bail, he would have to be "in a residence where there's no minor in the home".
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Josh Duggar was required to wear an ankle monitor and to obtain a probation officer's permission to leave the third-party custodian's home.
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Josh Duggar's lawyers, trying to get the case dismissed, used procedural nuisances that the judge deemed "frivolous".
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Jim Holt testified that Josh Duggar had asked him how to create the Linux partition on a computer in 2010, while Bobye Holt reiterated the same information that she testified on November 29.
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On May 25,2022, Josh Duggar was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison.
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Josh Duggar was fined $10,000 and ordered to pay an additional $40,100 in special assessments.
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Josh Duggar had faced up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each of the two counts.
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On December 14,2021, five days after Josh's conviction, Jim Bob Duggar finished third in the Republican primary in his bid to represent District 7 of the Arkansas State Senate.
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On June 3,2022, Josh Duggar appealed his conviction to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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Josh Duggar subsequently requested rehearing of his appeal by the three-judge panel and for en banc rehearing by the entire Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.