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don't  forget  when josh was before the elders in the church..the way they got him to confess was they threatened to shave an innocent  girls  head  (gothard says all females MUST have long hair.), so to do this to  a female in this cult would be devastating.

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Has it been confirmed that visitation has to be supervised by a 3rd party? I don't recall anyone who was on the zoom call reporting this. And can Anna visit alone to service her pig of a husband? Is that allowed?

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I don't recall any restrictions on adults visiting or being around Josh, just minors, so if Anna wanted to go on her lonesome, I don't think anything would forbid it. 

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23 minutes ago, emmawoodhouse said:

Has it been confirmed that visitation has to be supervised by a 3rd party? I don't recall anyone who was on the zoom call reporting this. And can Anna visit alone to service her pig of a husband? Is that allowed?

Visitation only has to be surpervised by Anna. Haven’t seen the courts order so I’m unclear whether the kids could visit w a 3rd party like Jana without Anna. My gut is that the Probation Officer would need to approve that. He can have adult visitors certainly his wife so yes she can visit him to “satisfy” him all she wants. 

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Just now, Zella said:

I don't recall any restrictions on adults visiting or being around Josh, just minors, so if Anna wanted to go on her lonesome, I don't think anything would forbid it. 

Yeah, that was my understanding. It's just disgusting to think about.

 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, RedDelicious said:

It's so true. And these fundie people like Josh think they can do whatever they want because "only God can judge them". I've been on the receiving end of words like that and it is INFURIATING.

And yet THEY can and do judge people who don't share their beliefs.  Infuriating indeed.

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I’m picturing StinkBus2, dilapidated to the degree of the Walking Dead RV, rolling up with freshly tinted windows and TT casserole. Or maybe JB will loan Anna the (frigging) Slingshot he drove in the birthday parade. But probably not. Ugh.

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3 minutes ago, RedDelicious said:

I’m picturing StinkBus2, dilapidated to the degree of the Walking Dead RV, rolling up with freshly tinted windows and TT casserole. Or maybe JB will loan Anna the (frigging) Slingshot he drove in the birthday parade. But probably not. Ugh.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!

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22 minutes ago, emmawoodhouse said:

Yeah, that was my understanding. It's just disgusting to think about.

 

 

 

 

She may be staying with him every night and/or day.  It wouldn’t surprise me at all.

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53 minutes ago, sue450 said:

don't  forget  when josh was before the elders in the church..the way they got him to confess was they threatened to shave an innocent  girls  head  (gothard says all females MUST have long hair.), so to do this to  a female in this cult would be devastating.

You must be kidding me!  These people are twisted, evil POS.

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I think Anna is probably way past the point of no return here. I mean, she continued to sleep with him even after all the other shit that would have put someone else off. 

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4 minutes ago, Zella said:

I think Anna is probably way past the point of no return here. I mean, she continued to sleep with him even after all the other shit that would have put someone else off. 

Her entire sense of worth is in her fecundity and desirability. 

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Plus what is she going to do?   She has no education and 6 (7) kids?   How is she going to support that many kids by herself? She has a free house right now and her kids' needs are met.     If she toes the party line and stands by her man, the idiot and his even more idiotic wife will continue to support her and the kids.   Heck they might even convince TLC to give her her own show about coping as a single parent after Idiot Jr is sent to real people prison.

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I don’t think Anna has much of a choice about having sex with Josh or not. The women in this cult are taught that they can’t say no and that marital rape doesn’t exist. Also, they probably think that having sex with his wife will control Josh’s urges. 

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47 minutes ago, Future Cat Lady said:

I don’t think Anna has much of a choice about having sex with Josh or not. The women in this cult are taught that they can’t say no and that marital rape doesn’t exist. Also, they probably think that having sex with his wife will control Josh’s urges. 

Um ...  

If true, it seems the word think doesn't mean what they believe it does. 

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57 minutes ago, Future Cat Lady said:

I don’t think Anna has much of a choice about having sex with Josh or not. The women in this cult are taught that they can’t say no and that marital rape doesn’t exist. Also, they probably think that having sex with his wife will control Josh’s urges. 

 

7 minutes ago, Tikichick said:

Um ...  

If true, it seems the word think doesn't mean what they believe it does. 

I'm actually a little worried about this. He's a guy with sick urges who is now being monitored. Even if he can set up some way to get to these nasty things again, it will take a little time. I can't imagine he's someone who can go without for very long.  From what I read his imagines weren't just young, but also violent. I hope he doesn't find the need to be violent with her. 

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16 minutes ago, 3girlsforus said:

 

I'm actually a little worried about this. He's a guy with sick urges who is now being monitored. Even if he can set up some way to get to these nasty things again, it will take a little time. I can't imagine he's someone who can go without for very long.  From what I read his imagines weren't just young, but also violent. I hope he doesn't find the need to be violent with her. 

I agree with you. That’s why I have some sympathy for Anna. I don’t think her private life with him is all that good. 

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2 hours ago, merylinkid said:

Plus what is she going to do?   She has no education and 6 (7) kids?   How is she going to support that many kids by herself? She has a free house right now and her kids' needs are met.     If she toes the party line and stands by her man, the idiot and his even more idiotic wife will continue to support her and the kids.   Heck they might even convince TLC to give her her own show about coping as a single parent after Idiot Jr is sent to real people prison.

I was going to say that that wouldn't happen only because Anna would refuse to acknowledge the severity of Josh's actions (remember "Josh's teenaged....wrong choices"?), in addition to her being unwilling to consider herself a single mother because of course she'll be waiting for Josh to get out and make more babies with her. But then I remembered that this is TLC, and they won't care.

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Anna has been raised to believe it's her mission in life to satisfy her man and pop out as many babies as she can during her fertile years. She has never shown any inclination to do otherwise. She has wealthy in-laws who will continue to house and feed her and her offspring no matter what. There's no way she'll flee or seek a divorce. She's in it for the long haul. If and when Josh winds up behind bars, she'll wait for him, and the minute he's set loose, she'll be ready for another pregnancy. As far as the charges go, she probably doesn't want to know the grim details. Satan is messing with her husband, and prayer is the answer. 

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2 hours ago, lascuba said:

I was going to say that that wouldn't happen only because Anna would refuse to acknowledge the severity of Josh's actions (remember "Josh's teenaged....wrong choices"?), in addition to her being unwilling to consider herself a single mother because of course she'll be waiting for Josh to get out and make more babies with her. But then I remembered that this is TLC, and they won't care.

Life after Lock Up a Duggar very special episode

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1 minute ago, hathorlive said:

Put a fork in him, he's done!

Okay, so it took me a few days to catch up, but I read an account that someone attending the bond hearing typed up.  And I have to say that Josh is screwed.  I have NEVER, EVER in 17 years of doing this been able to put a suspect behind the keyboard like they have in this case.  Josh's geolocation activity with his phone will do him in.  I've never had this kind of collaboration of activity and still gotten mostly guilty verdicts in federal court.    The text messages saying he'd be late, while downloading CP is golden.  As is the picture of the wreck outside the porn shack taken while he's downloading porn.  It's golden.  I don't see how they can lose this case.  It will be very hard for Josh to say that another person came in the tiny shack, sat at his computer and downloaded CP while Josh was in the same place at the same time.

I was looking forward to hearing your take on the details! They are rather damning. 

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2 minutes ago, hathorlive said:

Put a fork in him, he's done!

Okay, so it took me a few days to catch up, but I read an account that someone attending the bond hearing typed up.  And I have to say that Josh is screwed.  I have NEVER, EVER in 17 years of doing this been able to put a suspect behind the keyboard like they have in this case.  Josh's geolocation activity with his phone will do him in.  I've never had this kind of collaboration of activity and still gotten mostly guilty verdicts in federal court.    The text messages saying he'd been late, while downloading CP is golden.  As is the picture of the wreck outside the porn shack taken while he's downloading porn.  It's golden.  I don't see how they can lose this case.  It will be very hard for Josh to say that another person came in the tiny shack, sat at his computer and downloaded CP while Josh was in the same place at the same time.

This is the best news I've heard all day. I watched two episodes of Dateline last night while folding laundry that I just picked at random and both ended in inexplicable not guilty verdicts and it got me thinking that I really hope they have Josh dead to rights because juries are stupid. It sounds like they do and I'm so very glad. Now I really hope they just plea it out because his siblings don't deserve a long, drawn-out trial. I assume at least some of the family might have to testify too. I hope he does the right think and spares them that. 

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6 minutes ago, hathorlive said:

Put a fork in him, he's done!

Okay, so it took me a few days to catch up, but I read an account that someone attending the bond hearing typed up.  And I have to say that Josh is screwed.  I have NEVER, EVER in 17 years of doing this been able to put a suspect behind the keyboard like they have in this case.  Josh's geolocation activity with his phone will do him in.  I've never had this kind of collaboration of activity and still gotten mostly guilty verdicts in federal court.    The text messages saying he'd be late, while downloading CP is golden.  As is the picture of the wreck outside the porn shack taken while he's downloading porn.  It's golden.  I don't see how they can lose this case.  It will be very hard for Josh to say that another person came in the tiny shack, sat at his computer and downloaded CP while Josh was in the same place at the same time.

I'm not sure I'm understanding this...

Josh took a picture of a car accident, texted Anna and downloaded the CP, all basically within minutes of each other?

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4 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

I'm not sure I'm understanding this...

Josh took a picture of a car accident, texted Anna and downloaded the CP, all basically within minutes of each other?

Yeah he was taking pictures of a wreck that happened outside of the carlot and texting relatives about praying for the victim while he was downloading this shit, and as a result, he is admitting he was there and his phone was geolocating him at the carlot. 

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9 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

I'm not sure I'm understanding this...

Josh took a picture of a car accident, texted Anna and downloaded the CP, all basically within minutes of each other?

Here's the summary from the person on Reddit who listened to the hearing and the agent's testimony. I didn't include it because it is trigger warned, but that is the same day he also downloaded the file that the agent said was one of the absolute worst he had ever seen. 

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On May 15, 2019 at 11:35am computer user downloads 3 torrent files associated with CP.

Throughout the course of the day on May 15, Josh Duggar sends texts to 22 members of the Duggar family asking them to pray for a motorcyclist who got in an accident by Wholesale Motors. Computer also gets used to write reviews online under the name “Joshua.”

There’s also geolocations of photos taken at the car lot by Josh’s phone, but that piece of evidence doesn’t get admitted because D objects to lack of foundation regarding the reliability of geolocation data

 

 
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3 minutes ago, Zella said:

Yeah he was taking pictures of a wreck that happened outside of the carlot and texting relatives about praying for the victim while he was downloading this shit, and as a result, he is admitting he was there and his phone was geolocating him at the carlot. 

Wow. What the fuck are his lawyers doing? They should be telling him to plead guilty now.

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1 minute ago, hathorlive said:

In many cases, I have to explain very, very difficult technical concepts to a jury to get them to understand why someone is guilty. It doesn't take much to have the police testify that on xyz date, there was an accident outside the porn shack.  Then show the picture taken with the metadata that gives the geo location and time and date, and then show the text messages to the family, showing the accident.  That is as clear as it can be to a jury.  Even a stupid jury.

That was going to be my question, will this information be conveyed to the jury in a straightforward way that even I can understand it, or will it have to be presented in an tedious series of data dumps by a series of tech experts?    That's where I see jurors take their eyes off the ball, get lost in the weeds, get frustrated and then get fooled by defense closing argument that there's reasonable doubt in that mess.   

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1 minute ago, hathorlive said:

From the lawfirm of Bled 'Em and Pled Em.   I'm sure they'll get 100,000 from JB before they suggest doing just that.

Yes, they can spot an easy mark and will make sure they are handsomely paid first! 

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11 minutes ago, hathorlive said:

Normally I would agree with you about sparing his sisters, but the sad fact is that we need as many people as possible to see what Josh was doing.  And to shun him and stop "forgiving him for jesus" BS.  The family, especially JB and Mechelle need to see what the hell he was up to and what they've created and nurtured.  If these lawyers make the mistake of saying he doesn't have any "real" victims, I hope a sister testifies against him.   I know it won't happen, but the more people who see this video will never listen to JB and Mechelle say that the images weren't so bad...that they were innocent kids doing kid stuff. We've already seen them downplay and dismiss what he did to his sisters, I don't want them doing the same thing here.

Yea I know you are right but it still sucks for his sisters. I am also horrified that he will get to sit in the trial and see that video again. I don't know that he's ashamed enough to balance the fact that it will turn him on. That just makes me want to vomit. All of this makes me want to vomit. Ugh - now I'm getting angry. 

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1 minute ago, GeeGolly said:

Wow. What the fuck are his lawyers doing? They should be telling him to plead guilty now.

Lots of online discussion board legal scholars are predicting that Josh's lawyers will   advise him to plead guilty. He has until July 2 or something to change his plea.

Some people are looking for potential loop holes though just to see if the defense can mount any sort of response. Of course that's difficult to do when not even half the facts are known publicly.

There was something about the original local officer - who first got the ping about suspicious activity. He did not have an NIT (network investigative technique) warrant or capability or something. I have yet to really understand all that -- but they say it could lead to saying the initial search was not justified. From what I read - vERY LIMITED UNDERSTANDING - a TOR browser sort of scatters IP addresses as a way to cover what its doing. And the only way to get the correct IP is with this NIT technology which is like legal hacking.  So if the local officer didn't have NIT, perhaps the initial IP address was wrong. Obviously we know it wasn't wrong, but they could use this to argue that the initial search was not legal- even though of course we know that they actually got two legal search warrants afterward. I'd be grateful if anyone could explain what this means. 

All that being said, I agree that hopefully Josh will at least get the minimum of 5 years PLUS extra for the under 12 yrs old stuff.

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5 minutes ago, Tikichick said:

That was going to be my question, will this information be conveyed to the jury in a straightforward way that even I can understand it, or will it have to be presented in an tedious series of data dumps by a series of tech experts?    That's where I see jurors take their eyes off the ball, get lost in the weeds, get frustrated and then get fooled by defense closing argument that there's reasonable doubt in that mess.   

If I can explain epochal time in Unix to a jury in a murder trail, they should be able to present this with ease.  Our programs pull out meta data. So there's a report that shows the image, the camera it was taken with, sometimes the make/model/serial number of camera (or phone), the timestamps, and the geolocation.  They just have to put it up on a screen and walk them through it.  I had to show people a Unix time stamp, convert the number to a date using another tool, then adjust it for daylights savings time, and voila, the suspect was at the house at the time of the murder doing google searches.  This is much more straight forward.

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1 minute ago, hathorlive said:

If I can explain epochal time in Unix to a jury in a murder trail, they should be able to present this with ease.  Our programs pull out meta data. So there's a report that shows the image, the camera it was taken with, sometimes the make/model/serial number of camera (or phone), the timestamps, and the geolocation.  They just have to put it up on a screen and walk them through it.  I had to show people a Unix time stamp, convert the number to a date using another tool, then adjust it for daylights savings time, and voila, the suspect was at the house at the time of the murder doing google searches.  This is much more straight forward.

I know what epochal time in Unix is... call me next time you need a juror LOL

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The defense attorney probably isn't averse to earning a good living, but he probably also understands that his reputation is key to that being an ongoing matter, not just a single score on one case.   Even if Josh ends up pleading out this guy no doubt has a retainer agreement that offers up a good payday that allows him to move on to the next.   If he has a big reputation, there is another payday waiting out there for him already.

The attorney can tell a client to plead all he wants, but in the end the client has to decide to go through with it.   Predator types are a different species than other criminals.   They like to always be in control and are always sure they know best.   They only concede when they are completely convinced there is absolutely no other way out, and then they just want to concede, be done with it -- and then promptly flip into the mode where they demand an appeal and no one can convince them they won't get one and win it.    Josh ain't known as Smuggar for no reason.

Complicating the matter in this case is you also have JB's unshakable belief that he also can control everyone and everything.   I would give a lot to observe how his nature and his desire to save his brand are gumming up the works, or if he has accepted reality and is in fact urging his firstborn to take his medicine. 

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3 minutes ago, Tuxcat said:

Lots of online discussion board legal scholars are predicting that Josh's lawyers will   advise him to plead guilty. He has until July 2 or something to change his plea.

Some people are looking for potential loop holes though just to see if the defense can mount any sort of response. Of course that's difficult to do when not even half the facts are known publicly.

There was something about the original local officer - who first got the ping about suspicious activity. He did not have an NIT (network investigative technique) warrant or capability or something. I have yet to really understand all that -- but they say it could lead to saying the initial search was not justified. From what I read - vERY LIMITED UNDERSTANDING - a TOR browser sort of scatters IP addresses as a way to cover what its doing. And the only way to get the correct IP is with this NIT technology which is like legal hacking.  So if the local officer didn't have NIT, perhaps the initial IP address was wrong. Obviously we know it wasn't wrong, but they could use this to argue that the initial search was not legal- even though of course we know that they actually got two legal search warrants afterward. I'd be grateful if anyone could explain what this means. 

All that being said, I agree that hopefully Josh will at least get the minimum of 5 years PLUS extra for the under 12 yrs old stuff.

So I have not done a CP case in a few years.  I know how they found out who had hashes of CP (and I won't share that nugget because it's an investigative tool), but these federal agencies tend to run on policy.  I know our shop was very very focused on making sure things were done legally.  You can make a mistake on some of this stuff and the court gives you leeway.  I do not know about the NIT in particular that is being discussed.   But I can tell you that I pretty much have to get permission to sneeze in my lab.  You don't tend to have people doing things that will get you thrown out of court.  Of course, they will argue this.  It's about all they have.   However, remember, they also said he was using bitorrent, I believe.  And that is not scattering IP addresses.  So we won't know the all the details until they come out in court  

Did any of the people testifying mention this aspect of the case?

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Could Smuggar enter an Alford plea (a guilty plea that still claims innocence but acknowledges that the evidence is enough to convict)? It looks like that is acceptable in federal court. 

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8 minutes ago, 3girlsforus said:

I know what epochal time in Unix is... call me next time you need a juror LOL

The joke we had in my lab was we would quit if we ever had to explain epochal time in court.  It's something that they always put on certification tests, but you NEVER see in real life.  And there I was, in front of a giant screen walking the jury through where the value was found and converted and blah blah.  I almost laughed at one point, it was so silly.  Noted you are on my list of future jurors!

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2 minutes ago, zoomama said:

bitorrent

 

what does that mean?

Bittorent, bitlord, they are filesharing programs.  I thought someone mentioned he was also using that to locate porn, as well as Tor. I could be wrong.

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