If I were a juror listening again to that interview, JD's voluntarily offered statement "I'm not denying guilt" would be ringing in my ears, and extremely hard to get past. Who says that when questioned by police, if they are innocent and unaware of wrongdoing!?!
People tell you who they are, and I feel in Josh's case, he quite literally TOLD the jury he was guilty.
I feel JD was (possibly) inadvertently coached at a very young age into his perversions by witnessing or being shown sexual violence against children. The adviser his parents sent him to, the family friend, after the initial molestation admissions, was later convicted of CSAM charges. Just how long had this family friend had access to JD when he was young? I believe some of this deviance is imprinted by early exposure, and modeled from that point on. I'm not accusing any particular person, but I do think it's no coincidence that "trusted family friends" turned out to be involved in the same form of behavior later emerging as a pattern in JD. Children get warped quite often by what they see and learn while too young to properly process the experiences.
I'm also wondering if JD's Ashley Madison and cheating scandals were actually attempts by JD to NOT act out his desires on children (even his own.) I think these infidelities and addictions could very well have been desperate efforts to keep his pedophilic urges at bay. He may have been desperately trying not to be a monster, which would show some hint of self-consciousness and self-rejection. (But IMOO it was too late and too misguided; he was already a monster.) The fact that he was accused by one of the AM women of a violent assault says to me that violence in sexual expression is one of his secret needs, which he may have been trying to spare Anna in his mind by looking elsewhere.
If this post breaks rules, I apologize. Please leave in the parts that don't. All of this is MOO, and just me trying to understand the things that shape human behavior. With compassion and a sense of tragedy for all involved, and sadness (with anger) for the brutal systems and schemes that people continue to adhere to at the expense of children. As long as these systems persist, there will always be a market, unfortunately, for CSAM.
I hope that Josh is found guilty on both counts, given max sentences, forced to register, and never sees his children again. I also pray that Anna will find her way out of her own chains, if not for herself, then for her kids. These things have a way of repeating through generations, and I fervently hope Anna will stop the buck in time, if it's not already too late.
I don’t think he was ever told that his actions were majorly wrong. I think he was informed that giving into temptation is a sin, just like lying or jealousy. I suspect he was told to hold strong against temptation, and that his parents apologized for the lack of modesty in the house. The responsibility is always put on the female body. JMO.