Meet the clean-cut Christian couple Josh Duggar will live with as court bars him from returning home to his pregnant wife and six kids while he awaits child porn trial
19 Kids and Counting star Josh Duggar will be released from jail today to live with designated third-party custodians
LaCount Reber and his wife Maria, who are close friends of the Duggar family, have agreed to take in Josh at their home in Lafayette, Arkansas
Josh has been barred from returning home to his pregnant wife and their six kids
LaCount, 49, is an MRI tech with the US Department of Veterans Affairs and was previously a volunteer chaplain at the Washington County Detention Center
Josh Duggar, 33, is freed on bail for worst of the worst child porn charges and heads to family friend s home where he ll spend next two months - with no access to WIFI
Duggar, 33, said nothing as he was released from the Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Thursday
He will now spend the next two months in home detention with family friends
LaCount Reber and his wife Maria have agreed to house the father-of-six
That s despite authorities revealing he kept a sickening trove of child porn
Duggar, best known for being a part of his family’s reality show, 19 Kids and Counting, won’t be allowed to return home to pregnant wife Anna and their kids
Josh Duggar in Ames, Iowa, August 9, 2014. | REUTERS/Brian Frank
A federal agent reportedly alleged during a bail hearing Wednesday that former â19 Kids and Countingâ star Josh Duggar had over 200 images of child porn on his devices of children âranging from about 18 months of age to 12 years of age.â He was released on bail Thursday.Â
During the hours-long hearing, prosecutors alleged that a forensic examination of Duggar s devices, which consisted of an HP computer and a Macbook that was also backed-up on his iPhone 8, found images were flagged as child pornography.
According to People, the allegation was made by Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Gerald Faulkner, who testified for the prosecution.
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Josh Duggar is set to be released on bail on May 6 but Arkansas Magistrate Judge Christy Comstock said she can’t in good conscience send him back home and thus the reality star will be living with folks who are close friends with Josh and Anna Duggar.
Duggar, 33, will be placed with third-party custodian Maria and Lacount Reber – a familiar family who are close enough with Duggar and his wife Anna and have also known the family for about six or eight years through their church