’s correspondence with his wife Anna reveals a shocking number of explicit messages while he was in jail awaiting his 2022 conviction for possessing child sexual abuse materials.
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Duggars Jail Letters Expose Disturbing Fantasies
Josh Duggar’s correspondence with his wife Anna reveals a shocking number of explicit messages while he was in jail awaiting his 2022 conviction for possessing ...
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The 38-year-old former reality star, whose , is now scheduled for release in February 2033 from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Seagoville in .
Federal authorities said Duggar - father to seven children with Anna, 37 - had .'
Prior to that, Duggar’s past molestation of five young girls in the early 2000s - four of his sisters and a babysitter - led to the swift
Now, messages sent to Anna around the time of his arrest have been obtained by People, offering a graphic look at his sexual fantasies and desires for provocative snaps.
In many, Duggar repeatedly requested photos, begging Anna to send him pictures in her 'bra and panties' featuring her 'twos in it' and telling her, 'your sexy cleavage is amazing.'
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Josh Duggar ’s correspondence with his wife Anna reveals a shocking number of explicit messages while he was in jail awaiting his 2022 conviction for possessing child sexual abuse materials; (pictured 2015)
Messages sent to Anna around the time of his arrest offer a graphic look at his sexual fantasies and desires for provocative snaps
In one message, Duggar wrote: '[I] miss you my lover. i miss being in the shower with you scrubbing, i miss watching you try on clothes, i miss watching you being sexy.'
He also congratulated Anna for 'making the scale numbers lower than expected' and suggested she treat herself to 'something low cut.'
In one message, Duggar wrote: '[I] miss you my lover. i miss being in the shower with you scrubbing, i miss watching you try on clothes, i miss watching you being sexy'
In the message to his mother, Duggar allegedly wrote: '[I]ts (sic) hard to be here while everyone is out going and doing. its (sic) especially hard in light of how things have been since may 2015 when everything was devastated for Anna and I.'
Though both of the family’s shows were cancelled by TLC due to Duggar's actions, he told his mother that 'the public statements and pr work to save shows and public images i feel were placed above family relationships' and added that he believes they 'still are to this day.'
He also said that she 'worr[ied] more about pr than anything else,' before adding, 'I am not trying to shift blame for anything, I am saying please consider your role and change so that other children are not in the same situations later.'
Duggar molested his four sisters and a babysitter between March 2002 and March 2003, when he was a teenager, according to a federal lawsuit they filed against the city of Springdale and Washington County in 2017.
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In 2022, federal judge Timothy Brooks dismissed a lawsuit from the four sisters, who accused various Arkansas officials of violating their privacy by releasing documents from the molestation investigation.
While Brooks sympathized with the sisters, he argued that they had not proven that police intentionally violated the law.
In his ruling, Brooks explained that the four sisters 'were sexually abused by their brother, Joshua' between March 2002 and March 2003, when he was 14 and 15 years old.
The girls were between the ages of 5 and 11 during the alleged abuse.
Josh complained that only one picture had arrived, ending the message with: 'p.s. - i cant (sic) wait till we can be alone again. i miss ALL of you! what specificially (sic) are you thinking/dreaming/fantasizing about today that you miss? i miss you and me being US! tell me later? :O'
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Brooks also oversaw Duggar's 2021 child pornography trial, in which prosecutors said he downloaded 600 photographs and seven videos of violent child sexual abuse.
Duggar's parents later said he had admitted to molesting his sisters and apologized privately after the allegations resurfaced.
He publicly apologized months later for having cheated on his wife Anna, claiming he had been seeking treatment for an addiction to pornography.
A few months later, TLC premiered a new reality show about the large family titled Counting On, which did not feature Duggar or his wife.
That show was cancelled in 2021 following Duggar's arrest on a federal charge of possessing child sexual abuse materials.
Notably, Duggar recently defended his younger brother Joseph, 31, following his arrest for alleged sexual abuse of a nine-year-old girl.
'Josh understands the stigma of being accused,' his attorney told the Daily Mail. 'He lives with the painful reality of how false accusations can destroy a life. He understands how the targeting of a person for publicity can twist the truth into sensationalized fiction.'
The attorney added that although 'Josh and Joe are not in frequent communication,' the jailed brother 'hopes and prays for his brother's well being in this difficult time.'
Joseph, a married father of four, allegedly engaged in 'unlawful sexual activity' with the underage girl during a family vacation in 2020 at Panama City Beach, the Bay County Sheriff's Office in Florida said in a statement released after the arrest.
He was later released on a $600,000 bond.
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