The continued testimony of an FBI digital expert put Josh Duggar’s cell phone at his place of business at the same time the child pornography investigators found was accessed.
FBI High Technology Investigative Unit director James Fottrell said that no porn was found on the reality TV star’s phone or his personal laptop, nor was any found on the Windows portion of his work computer, KNWA reported.
Everything was found on a Linux partition that must be accessed by rebooting the computer and specifically selecting it, as the Windows partition is the default, Fottrell said.
He said he looked for the possibility of someone remotely accessing the HP work computer but found nothing to indicate that it could be.
The evidence, he said, was “not fitting the pattern of someone connecting remotely. That’s not happening.”
Fottrell’s testimony included a mountain of evidence entered into the record, including a final “timeline of exhibits of evidence” that showed the times the pornographic material was accessed side-by-side with the times geo-data showed Duggar’s cell phone was on the property.
Under cross examination, Fottrell fielded numerous questions from the defense about how computers, bit-torrent, partitions, and the dark web work, many of which he had already described in detail.
Fottrell also discussed, again, how the password on the Linux partition was the same one Duggar used for many other accounts, some as far back as 2014, and that it was often used for his family accounts.
Duggar, now 33, was one of the stars of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” until allegations that he had molested four of his sisters when he was a teen surfaced and the network cancelled the show. The Duggars, minus Josh, returned with “Counting On,” but that too was cancelled in the spring when Josh Duggar was arrested on child porn charges, as CrimeOnline previously reported.
The trial will pick up again on Monday and is expected to continue at least through mid-week.
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