As Josh Duggar continues to serve time in federal prison for his crimes involving child sexual assault material, some people are still trying to figure out why he ended up in this position in the first place, and his cousin Amy Duggar seems to have a few ideas. In a new interview, Amy said she believes "something traumatic" must have happened to Josh in his childhood to make him the person he is now: someone capable of committing atrocious crimes.
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Amy opened up about Josh's crimes while talking to People Magazine.
She seems to believe something may have happened to Josh that the public doesn't know about that landed him where he is now — serving time at FCI Seagoville in Texas.
"I believe that something traumatic has to happen in order for your brain to even go near that situation," she said. "I don't know what that traumatic event or events was. I think it stems down and it's just so heartbreaking all the way around."
She went on to say that it would have to be 'something major.'
"I don't know what has happened to Josh," she said. "If you ask me, though, I think that something major has maybe happened to him, obviously very, very much so. I don't know why or how or what that looks like, but I know that something's up and something is very wrong."
She also doesn't believe there's any chance Josh could be 'rehabilitated' post-prison.
Josh is due to be released from prison in late 2032, but if it was up to Amy, it wouldn't be happening quite that soon.
"I don't really know what I want [him to get] out of prison," she told the magazine. "I want him to stay as long as he can because he can't hurt children. He can't view that disgustingness and his kids hopefully are safe as well."
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Josh was convicted in December 2021.
After a jury determined that Josh was guilty of possessing and receiving child sexual assault material following a trial that dragged on for days, he was sentenced by a judge five months later. In May 2022, Judge Timothy L. Brooks said Josh would be spending 12.5 years in prison, which fell a bit short of the maximum 20-year sentence he could have received for his crimes.
Amy has said she hopes prison is 'absolute torture' for him.
"I really hope that because what he watched and what he was viewing for his own fulfillment is those kids experiencing torture," she told People in an interview that was published last week. "He deserves every second in there, and I hope he gets a longer term. I hope he messes up again."
