Amy Duggar Speaks Out After Cousin Josh Duggar’s Sentencing: ’12 and a 1/2 Years Isn’t Enough’
usmagazine.comNot backing down. Amy Duggar is speaking out after her cousin Josh Duggar was sentenced to 151 months in prison on child pornography charges.“Twelve and a half years isn’t enough,” Amy told Celebuzz!
in a statement on Wednesday, May 25. “But I hope that every single second he’s there feels like an eternity.”Us confirmed on Wednesday that Judge Timothy L.
Brooks, who called Josh’s crimes “the sickest of the sick,” sentenced him to 12 and 1/2 years behind bars after he was found guilty on two charges of receiving and possessing child abuse images in late 2021.
He was facing up to 20 years.“I knew him getting the maximum sentence wasn’t going to be the easiest to prove since it’s his first offense in the judge’s eyes — which I hate — but at the same time, he cannot have his computer, he cannot hurt, exploit any more children and when he sees his kids, he has to be supervised,” Amy said via an Instagram video on Wednesday. “And honestly, where he’s going, I feel like the prisoners are just gonna take care of him.”Amy, who wrote a letter pleading with the judge prior to Wednesday’s hearing, added that believes the case is “far from over.”“Josh’s sickness stems from somewhere, and eventually we will hear about the trauma.
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