He paired that analysis with iPhone photos, text messages and data from Duggar’s phone, which had been backed up on Duggar’s personal MacBook Pro, that placed him at the used car dealership at the time. He's pleaded not guilty to the charges.įottrell provided jurors with a minute-by-minute analysis of when the images were downloaded onto a hidden Linux “partition” of the office computer that effectively split the hard drive in two to keep the internet activity hidden from an accountability tracker installed on the main portion of the hard drive. “Based on review, who was present at the car lot every time child pornography was downloaded?” Prosecutor William Clayman asked in court.ĭuggar, a former reality television star who rose to fame on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” is facing charges of knowingly receiving and possessing child pornography after investigators said they found graphic images depicting sexual abuse of children on a desk top computer at Wholesale Motorcars.

James Fottrell, a computer forensics expert and High Technology Investigative Unit director, spent the day on the stand Friday, first laying out the in-depth forensic analysis that represents the crux of the prosecution’s case, describing how Duggar’s own phone placed him at the Arkansas car dealership when the child sexual abuse materials were downloaded onto a work computer at the same location in May of 2019, BuzzFeed News reports. The defense tried to poke holes in the testimony of the prosecution’s key witness Friday as Josh Duggar’s child pornography trial continues.

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