Anna Duggar visits husband Josh 'regularly' with children in prison (2024)

The wife and family of disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar regularly visit him as he serves his 151-month prison sentence for possession of child p*rnography, sources have said.

Duggar, 34, who grew up starring in the TLC show19 Kids and Counting, was found guilty last December of downloading a trove of 'the worst of the worst' child p*rn.

Despite his vile crime, sources told the US SunDuggar's wife Anna and their seven children visitFCI Seagoville in Dallas, Texas, where he is incarcerated 'fairly regularly.' The prison is reported to be 'dangerous' and poorly run.

Last month Duggar claimed in a court filing he was 'restrained' by police during interrogation after his arrest, and thatCaleb Williams, his employer and a registered sex offender, was the one who committed the child p*rnography crime.

The family member of another inmate at FCI Seagoville said she's seen the Duggars at the prison on numerous occasions.

'We've seen Anna at visitation fairly regularly. I've spoken to Anna a couple of times. Normally the only thing I've seen is Anna and then their kids,' they said. 'I don't really know anybody else.'

The source said the prison provided 'board games and blocks' in the visitation area to keep children occupied, but that otherwise it could be very difficult for families to visit.

She said the prison doesn't allow visitors to wear any clothing that could be viewed as provocative, and that their rules sometimes change visit to visit.

'It's kind of a crapshoot on whatever they're going to say is out of policy today. I've had a guard tell me that I had too many bobby pins in my hair to go in or like my mask was the wrong color,' the source said.

'They tried to turn me away because I was wearing a dress. I had worn the same dress the week before and they said it was fine, but this time they said it was too sexually provocative.'

The source added that visitors are often left 'waiting for hours.'

'There's always a delay. A couple of weeks back, they said that the electricity was down. It goes in and out all the time so they use it as an excuse to make us wait for a couple of hours before we could get in.

The source said it can be difficult just to get inside, and that visitors are admitted on a first-come first-served basis.

'Visitation is supposed to start at 8:15am and run until 3:30pm. I get there around 7:00am just to be early in the line,' the source said.'And they start processing us anytime between 8:15am to 9:30am. Just kind of whenever they feel like it.'

The source added that visitation usually ends up to an hour earlier than it is supposed to, and that while there sit on 'plastic chairs' in a 'really cold' room while talking to their imprisoned loved ones.

'Sometimes there's food in the vending machines, but often it'll go for weeks at a time with nothing. It's very uncomfortable.'

'Partners are allowed to have a kiss and a hug at the beginning and the end of visitation. Up until a couple of weeks ago they actually allowed inmates and visitors to hold hands. It was really lovely.'

'But they rotated another guard onto the shift and now they're not allowing that anymore.'

Sources close to the prison have previously claimedFCI Seagoville often serves inmates severely expired food, goes weeks without heat or hot water even in the dead of winter, and has a faulty power system that falls back on equally unreliable generators.

A source also told the US Sun 'there's not really much security around because they're dramatically understaffed.'

'The prison has pretty heavy politics, which means there are gangs in it. Fortunately, it is nowhere near as violent as a medium-security facility. It's not actually a very violent facility.'

'But it is just a dangerous situation, given the level of neglect and so I know that my family member has felt concerned for his, I guess I would say he's always concerned for his well-being, even if he feels physically safe.'

Duggar made headlines in 2015 when police reports stating that he had molested four of his young sisters when he was 12 became public. His parents said he had confessed to the fondling and apologized.

During his child p*rnography trial learned Duggar scoured the dark web for sick videos of little girls being tortured, humiliated and abused.

Graphic titles such as 'pedo mom,' 'play tot sweetie', 'Daisy's destruction' and 'ultra hard pedo pedofilia', left little to the imagination. One video ended with a girl being caged in a dog kennel. Another series of images depicted a minor being raped by a male adult.

The videos were downloadedbetween May 14 and 16, 2019.

The warped cache was so disturbing that a seasoned FBI child exploitation investigator said it was 'in the top five of the worst of the worst that I've ever had to examine.'

At the time of the trial, defense lawyers contended that a former employee or hacker could have exploited Duggar's lax internet security to hijack his computer and remotely download the material without anyone knowing.

Duggar is now asking for a new trial, alleging armed officers kept him from contacting his attorney and forced him into an interrogation during his arrest.

In his court filing he claimed he was 'blindsided' by the ambush and was only allowed to leave per officers' orders.

'Duggar immediately took out his phone and said he was calling his attorney. [An agent] took the phone from Duggar’s hand, preventing him from calling counsel,' the filing reads.

But, federal officials responded to Duggars claims and insisted: 'Duggar was allegedly told he was free to leave.'

'The Government also contends Duggar was not restrained,' the filing continued. 'But restraint is about more than being handcuffed.

'Duggar was placed in a police vehicle with two armed agents. He was told his attorney could not join him after he attempted to call counsel, and he had no access to a vehicle.

His lawyers argued that anyone in Duggar's position should have felt 'deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way.'