FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.—Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was sentenced Wednesday to about 12.5 years in prison after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography.
Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks to give the maximum term of 20 years to Duggar, whose large family was the focus of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting.” They argued in a pre-sentencing court filing that Duggar has a “deep-seated, pervasive, and violent sexual interest in children.”
