Eldest Duggar little one Josh was born March 3, 1988. He too turned a conservative activist, campaigning for the Family Research Council.

He stepped down after outdated police data surfaced in 2015 revealing that he had been accused of molesting a number of ladies, together with his sisters Jessa and Jill, when he was a young person. Jessa defended her brother in a sit-down with Fox News that June, insisting that the worst names folks have been calling Josh have been “so overboard and a lie, really. I mean people get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this because I was one of the 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 “a crucial first step in recovering and healing.”(*19*) of three—daughter Mackynzie (Oct. 8, 2009) and sons Michael (June 15, 2011) and Marcus (June 2, 2013)—when the scandal broke, Anna gave delivery to their fourth little one, Meredith, on July 16, 2015, the identical day TLC canceled 19 Kids. Their fifth little one, 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 rely 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.