[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you're really welcome back to the Bridge Boys podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host, Eric Scorsinski.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a former fundamentalist to now sheds light on the darker side of the church and the pulpits to the pews.
[SPEAKER_01]: On today's episode, I'm gonna be covering a breaking news story involving Joseph Dugger.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm going to be sharing this off of a sub-stack article that I wrote relating to this topic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll give some added context and commentary.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're necessary, but this should give us a really clear outline of the story.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you'd like to see all of the things that I allude to, new stories, statements from law enforcement, sentencing memorandums in the Josh Dougher case, all of that is linked in the sub-stack article.
[SPEAKER_01]: that I'm referencing here so you can hit over to preacherboys.substack.com.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's completely free.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no paywall on anything on that site and you can take a look for yourself to dig a little bit deeper into this story.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do want to start with the content warning.
[SPEAKER_01]: This article does contain descriptions of physical and sexual abuse involving children.
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course that means this video will as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So viewer discretion is advised.
[SPEAKER_04]: Baby, ain't nobody safe In the Bible, oh, in the Bible, oh
[SPEAKER_01]: Joseph Garrett Dugger, 31 former star of TLC's 19 kids and counting and counting on faces felony charges of loot and lascivious behavior involving a child under 12, according to the Bay County Sheriff's Office.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's a picture of Joseph Dugger right here, pictured with his family.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is from their Instagram account, of course I've blurred.
[SPEAKER_01]: The faces of the children and of his wife, and I would encourage you if you are sharing the story to do the same not to put his kids in the spotlight more than they should.
[SPEAKER_01]: The arrest made on March 18, 2026, Mark Ciet, another scandal for the Dugger family, whose reality TV fame crumbled amid repeated sexual misconduct allegations involving the oldest brother, Josh Dugger.
[SPEAKER_01]: Josh was in prison in 2022 for possessing child sexual abuse material.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm going to share the exact situation that happened with Joseph later on in this video.
[SPEAKER_01]: But first, I want to go back and give a little bit of context for who the Ducker family is.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not exhaustive by any stretch and I covered a lot more details surrounding, say the Josh Ducker story in previous videos on this channel.
[SPEAKER_01]: There should be a playlist somewhere on this video where you can check those out.
[SPEAKER_01]: But here's a surface level recap that tells you a little bit about what's happened so far.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Douggers rose to fame on TLC's 19 kids in counting, which aired from 2008 to 2015.
[SPEAKER_00]: the mother you look forward to the milestones in your children's lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with 19 children, every now and then, we experience things we've never experienced before.
[SPEAKER_01]: The show ended abruptly after Intouch Weekly published 2006 police records showing Josh Dugger had molested several younger sisters as a teenager.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now this article was released without the consent of all of the sisters.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they ended up suing Intouch Weekly and the police department over these files
[SPEAKER_01]: But of course, once Pandora's box was opened, it was opened, and people became aware that Josh Dugger had committed these horrific crimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, the means in which this information got out there was not good, but it also started to shed light on the facade that was surrounding Josh Dugger.
[SPEAKER_01]: That same year, Josh's name surfaced in the Ashley Madison site.
[SPEAKER_01]: Data breach.
[SPEAKER_02]: Former reality TV star Josh Dugger has confessed the cheating on his wife, and this comes a day after hackers of the infidelity website, Ashley Madison, exposed millions of users, including Dugger.
[SPEAKER_01]: prompting TLC to pivot to the spin-off Jill and Jess accounting on, which they viewed in December of 2015.
[SPEAKER_01]: But a month before the accounting on released, in November of 2015, adult film star Danica Dillon, alleged Josh Dugger physically assaulted her in Philadelphia.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was very rough with me.
[SPEAKER_05]: In all honesty, though it was consensual, it's
[SPEAKER_05]: more or less felt like I was being raped.
[SPEAKER_05]: He was tossing me around like a ragdoll, forcing me to go into positions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dylan claimed the incidents occurred in 2015, but she dropped the lawsuit in February of 2016.
[SPEAKER_01]: Duggers lawyer said this was because Dugger was not in Philadelphia at the time of the alleged assault, but Dylan hinted that this was not the case.
[SPEAKER_01]: She said on Twitter, just because something was dropped doesn't mean it was a lie.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first episode of coming on featured siblings like then 21-year-old Joseph reacting emotionally to Josh's scandals.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first thing that came out when he was younger, the first scene's referencing is the molestation that took place when he was younger with his siblings.
[SPEAKER_03]: I never had quite as close a relationship as I did whenever I was really young, but over time
[SPEAKER_01]: The Ashley Madison affair site being hacked and revealing he had accounts on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It blew my mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had no idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think there's any way any of us would have known that my brother was living such a secret life.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just...
[SPEAKER_03]: Whenever somebody is, you know, somebody you respect the most is willing to get up and proclaim, you know, what's what we believe is Christians, you know, about being true to your life.
[SPEAKER_03]: You never would expect that person to be the one that's involved in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it broke my heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was the clip where Joseph talks about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: But honestly, Josh's secret life was far more disturbing than anyone knew.
[SPEAKER_01]: In December of 2021, he was convicted of downloading and possessing child sexual abuse material on his computer workstation.
[SPEAKER_01]: The content described in the sentencing memorandum was incredibly violent.
[SPEAKER_01]: Features 7-8-year-old children with knives pointed at their genitals, words written in blood-like substances on their bodies, they were caged, beaten with cated nine tail whips, and also it included footage of an infant burned with hot wax.
[SPEAKER_01]: According to James Fattrell, a computer forensics expert in the director of the high technology investigative unit for the U.S. Department of Justice,
[SPEAKER_01]: The files Josh had downloaded were the most offensive series of child sexual abuse material that he had seen in his career.
[SPEAKER_01]: On May 25, 2022, a federal judge in Arkansas sentence Josh dug her to 151 months, has over 12 years in prison.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was short of prosecutors 20-year maximum request, but far exceeding his defense team's play for five years.
[SPEAKER_01]: Friendly members including Jim Bob, Anna, who is Josh Dougher's wife, Jason, and Joanna Dugger who are siblings attended the sentencing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Josh should know visible reaction per courtroom reports.
[SPEAKER_01]: The conviction was what led till see the cancel counting on later that year.
[SPEAKER_01]: that brings us to Joseph.
[SPEAKER_01]: On March 18, 26, it was revealed that Joseph Dugger has been carrying secrets of his own.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bay County investigators received a tip on March 18, 26 from Tantatown Police about past abuse reported by a now 14-year-old girl.
[SPEAKER_01]: She alleged incidents during a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida, when she was nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: According to her Joseph Dugger reportedly asked her to sit on his lap repeatedly, then next to him on a couch under a blanket where he manipulated her underwear, grazed her genitals and rubbed her thighs.
[SPEAKER_01]: The girl said Dugger apologized and no further incidents took place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Her father confronted him on March 17, 26, and Dugger admitted the actions to both the father and detectives.
[SPEAKER_01]: Arrested of State, he awaits extra-dition of Bay County on two counts, Loud and the Sivius Behavior.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mullestation of a victim less than 12, and Loud and the Sivius Behavior by a person 18 or older.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all the information I have right now, but I'll share updates to the story as they come.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've been listening to The Prejudice Podcast hosted by Eric Swizinski.
[SPEAKER_04]: The intro music, Bible Belt, was performed by Lou Ridley.