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Josh Duggar (pictured in his December booking photo) was sentenced to 12 years and seven months behind bars Wednesday and will not be allowed any unsupervised time with his kids, nor watch any porn
Disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar who was jailed for more than 12-and-a-half years Wednesday for downloading a vile trove of 'the sickest of the sickest' child porn will not be allowed to view porn of any kind once he is released.
Legal documents seen by TMZ also state how Duggar, 34, a dad-of-seven will not be allowed to have any unsupervised contact with minors, including his own children who range in age from six months to 12.
Should he wish to see his children, he must be supervised by his wife, his parents or another adult that has been approved by the U.S. Probation Office.
He will also be banned from accessing the internet without prior approval from his probation officer and will have to follow the standard supervised release conditions which are set to last for 20 years.
They include receiving sex therapy as well as having to undertake a lie detector test if required.
Josh Duggar, 34, a dad-of-seven will not be allowed to have any unsupervised contact with minors, including his own children who range in age from six months to 12. Josh and wife Anna, are pictured with six of their seven young children
US District Judge Timothy Brooks handed Duggar a 151-month prison sentence at the Western District of Arkansas Federal Courthouse in Fayetteville at the end of a day-long hearing.
Duggar has been in custody since December when a federal jury found the 19 Kids and Counting alum guilty of possession and receipt of child pornography.
The possession charge was dropped at his sentencing.
'The images were some of the worst that this court has ever encountered,' Judge Brooks told Duggar, as his wife Anna, 33, sat a few yards behind him in the public gallery during Wednesday's hearing.
The court heard in December how the dad-of-seven used the desktop computer at his car dealership to trawl the dark web for hundreds of warped films and photos.
One notorious movie, 'Daisy's Destruction', featured the abuse and torture of an infant. Another sequence of images depicted a girl being whipped with a cat o' nine tails, tied up and locked in a dog cage.
Duggar's wife, Anna Duggar, 33, was pictured leaving the courthouse with a companion shortly after the sentence was handed down by a judge
Mom-of-seven Anna did not speak to media as she left hearing at the end of the day
Father Jim Bob Duggar left the court alone after learning his son's fate
'I can't get the dog kennel image out of my head. The description of Daisy's Destruction is horrific, it's sick,' the Judge Brooks said during sentencing.
He told Duggar that his crimes were exacerbated by the 'sadistic' nature of the abuse, the ages of the kids involved and his refusal to accept his guilt.
The little girl featured in Daisy's Destruction appeared to be no older than an infant, Judge Brooks added, describing that particular title as the 'sickest of the sickest'.
Duggar, who wore a grey suit and had a scruffy beard and grown-out buzz cut, was also hit with a longer sentence because of the molestation he subjected his own sisters to when he was a teenager.
'As the court has found, you have a history of sexual abuse. One of the Jane Does was five-year-old, you were 15,' Judge Brooks added.
'You [remain] locked into the very same age group as the Jane Does. We can say it's been a long time, and it has. But the sexual interest is the same.'
Duggar was sentenced solely on a charge of receiving pornography after prosecution and defense attorneys agreed to vacate a lesser offense of possession.
Members of Duggar's family showed up to support the disgraced reality TV star on his sentencing day
Anna, who wore a navy blue, long sleeved dress and black mask, has stood by her husband throughout the scandal
Duggar patriarch Jim Bob Duggar (left) and siblings Joy-Anna Duggar Forsyth, 24, and Jason Duggar, 22, were also present in court Wednesday
Media and on lookers line up for entry to John Paul Hammerschmidt Federal Building in Fayetteville, ahead of the decision
Duggar showed little emotion as he was led away by US marshals, looking back at Anna and making a heart shape with his hands, which she reciprocated.
Neither Anna, wearing a pretty blue dress and black mask, nor his dad Jim Bob, spoke as they left court.
The decision came one day after Brooks denied a defense motion to overturn the guilty verdict on grounds of insufficient evidence or to order a new trial.
Defense attorneys had asked for a five-year stretch, the lightest possible punishment, insisting that Duggar, said to be a devoted dad and committed Christian, maintained his innocence and intended to appeal.
They argued that, of the approximately 600 child porn images identified by investigators, only a small portion had been viewed and none of those fell into the category of 'sadistic or masochistic'.
Prosecutors demanded a 20-year term – the maximum possible – arguing that it was hard to think of anything more sadistic that a grown man raping a little girl.
They said Duggar had never sought treatment or shown any acceptance of his warped appetites and thus had a high chance of re-offending.
To illustrate the lasting devastation done to child pornography victims, the government reproduced testimony from the mother of a young girl who had appeared in one of the videos Duggar downloaded.
The disgraced reality TV star, 34, was found guilty on two counts of downloading and possessing child pornography in December after investigators traced a trove of the disturbing material on his work computer in an evidence photo
DailyMail.com obtained evidence photos of Duggar's office at his used car dealership business where he secretly downloaded a sick trove of child porn
This is the HP computer where Duggar secretly scoured the dark web for illegal footage of child sex abuse. On the surface, the desktop looks like a typical computer featuring a wholesome family wallpaper of father-of-seven Duggar, his wife Anna and their kids
Investigators traced child porn images to the IP address to Duggar's now-defunct used car dealership, Wholesale Motorcars, in Springdale, Arkansas, and seized his office HP desktop and iPhone in April last year
'My daughter is a real person,' the mother stated. 'She was horribly victimized to provide this source of 'entertainment'. She is exploited anew each and every time an image of her suffering is copied, traded or sold.
'I asked my daughter what she most wanted to ask of the judge. Her request: 'Please, don't let them pretend no-one's getting hurt!'
'She had some words for the defendant as well: 'don't you know no one should do that to a little girl! Don't you know it hurts!'
Recalling the mother's words in court, Judge Brooks described the testimony as 'chilling'.
'For the victims it never goes away. It's on the internet, probably for forever,' he told the court, which was packed with Duggar's friends and family.
Duggar's mom Michelle and Anna had both written letters pleading for leniency, the latter comparing her husband to Ronald Reagan in an effort to stress his work ethic and decency.
'Joshua has a compassionate heart and he is willing to make personal sacrifices for the benefit of others,' Anna wrote.
'Joshua embodies the quote from Ronald Reagan: 'There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit'.
Responding, prosecutors said that Duggar's supportive family and 'privileged lifestyle' merely made his crimes 'all the more baffling'.
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