Michelle, Jim Bob Duggar Celebrate Josh Duggar, Anna’s 7th Baby

One other Duggar has arrived! Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar gushed over the delivery of their son Josh Duggar and spouse Anna Duggar’s seventh little one.

“We’re all the time delighted to welcome one other grandchild,” the couple advised Us Weekly in a press release on Tuesday, November 16. “They’re every a fantastic treasure from the Lord.”

Michelle, 55, and Jim Bob, 56, welcomed their twenty second grandchild, a child woman named Madyson Lily, final month, but it surely wasn’t till Tuesday that Josh, 33, and Anna, additionally 33, introduced her arrival.

Anna shared a photograph of the new child sleeping through her Instagram on Tuesday. She famous through her Instagram Story that the baby was born on October 23 at 2:39 a.m. and weighed 7 lbs. 9 ounces and was 20 inches lengthy.

Madelyn joined Anna and Josh’s six different kids: Mackenzie, 12, Michael, 10, Marcus, 8, Meredith, 6, Mason, 4, and Maryella, 23 months.

The infant’s arrival got here amid Josh’s ongoing little one pornography case. Josh, who’s the eldest little one of Michelle and Jim Bob, was arrested in April, simply weeks after he and Anna introduced they had been anticipating child No. 7.

“It’s a GIRL!!!!!” Anna wrote through Instagram on the time. “We’re overjoyed to announce child seven is on the way in which and we will’t wait to carry her in our arms this fall!”

Later that month, Josh was taken into custody on the Washington County jail in Arkansas and charged with receiving and possessing little one pornography. He entered a not responsible plea and was set to start his trial in July.

The 19 Youngsters and Counting alum filed a movement in June to increase the trial date to 2022, however a decide solely granted a four-month extension. The trial is now set for November.

TLC canceled the Duggar household’s spinoff collection, Counting On, amid the controversy, asserting the information in June.

Whereas lots of his siblings starred on Counting On, Josh and Anna left the community in 2015 after a number of women got here ahead and accused him of molesting them when he was 14.

“Twelve years in the past, as a younger teenager, I acted inexcusably for which I’m extraordinarily sorry and deeply remorse. I damage others, together with my household and shut mates,” Josh stated in a press release through Fb on the time. “We spoke with the authorities the place I confessed my wrongdoing, and my mother and father organized for me and people affected by my actions to obtain counseling. I understood that if I continued down this improper highway that I might find yourself ruining my life.”

Josh was later concerned in a dishonest scandal, apologizing for being “the most important hypocrite ever” earlier than finishing a six-month stint in rehab in March 2016.

Amid his ongoing little one pornography case, Anna has stood by Josh’s facet showing at his September listening to the place a decide denied 4 of Josh’s 5 motions within the case. The previous TLC character filed a movement to suppress the pictures taken of his fingers and ft on the time of his arrest and a movement to dismiss the case fully, each of which had been denied.

Two different motions — one to suppress the statements Josh allegedly made to federal brokers through the investigation and one other one to dismiss the indictment due to who was in control of Homeland Safety on the time — had been additionally denied by a decide on the time. However the fifth movement, which is tied to suppressing proof, wasn’t dominated on.

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