EXCLUSIVE: Pervert Josh Duggar tried to get off on gruesome 'hurtcore' video Daisy's Destruction, 'the worst of the worst' in international child porn that shows cruel torture and beatings of 18-month-old girl

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It sounded so unimaginably cruel, so repulsive, that for years it was dismissed as an urban myth.

Little wonder then that when hardened investigators looking for evidence to nail perverts like Josh Duggar finally viewed a copy of Daisy’s Destruction they broke down in tears and couldn’t believe their eyes.

The warped movie depicts an 18-month-old infant being hung upside down, beaten and tortured in what is widely regarded by law enforcement as the most gruesome example to date of ‘hurtcore’ – a sub-genre of child porn where perverts get off on seeing kids in pain.

It was just one of the horrifying titles reeled off by prosecutors this past week in the federal trial of former reality TV star Duggar, 33, who faces decades in jail for downloading a trove of outlawed material.

Hunched over a computer in the shabby office of his Arkansas car lot and hiding behind the anonymity afforded by the Dark Web, the dad-of-seven repeatedly searched for Daisy’s Destruction, according to the government.

Josh Duggar smiles in his booking photo after being found guilty of child porn charges in federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas

Australian Peter Scully is serving a life sentence in the Philippines. He made the child 'hurtcore' video Daisy's Destruction that was for years thought to be an urgent legend

Josh Duggar, 33, (pictured with wife Anna on Thursday) was found guilty on two counts of downloading and possessing child pornography 

Investigators didn’t find the video itself but as they burrowed deep into his seized HP device they uncovered two telltale ‘torrent files’ marked DD and DD1.

Likened to ‘library index cards’, torrent files contain a set of instructions that can be fed into peer-to-peer software to locate and download the real thing on the shadowy BitTorrent network.

When James Fottrell, Director of the FBI’s High Technology Investigative Unit, punched the same file names into a government database of known child pornography his worst suspicions were confirmed.

‘DD is associated with Daisy’s Destruction. It’s one of the most offensive video series that I’m familiar with throughout my career,’ Fottrell told jurors at a federal courthouse in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Daisy’s Destruction, he went on, depicted various depraved scenes including a distressed little girl child being tied upside down, beaten on the hands and feet and doused in hot wax.

‘The infant is screaming and crying,’ added Fottrell, whose extensive forensic analysis of the HP computer helped convict Duggar on charges of receipt and possession of child porn.

Josh Duggar, when he was an innocent young child 

As the once clean-cut star of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting languishes in the Washington County Detention Center ahead of sentencing, DailyMail.com can reveal that the true story behind Daisy’s Destruction is every bit as disturbing as the abuse outlined by Fottrell.

The infamous video is the work of Australian predator Peter Scully, 58, who is currently serving a life sentence in the Philippines for human trafficking and raping minors.

Scully fled Melbourne in 2011 after he was implicated in a multi-million dollar real estate scam and settled in Mindanao, where authorities say he launched a worldwide pedophile ring offering encrypted pay-per-view streams of children being viciously beaten and molested.

Most of his victims were impoverished local kids procured from their parents for food or promises of work. Others were lured into his home by a harem of teenage prostitutes groomed to be his accomplices.

One told 60 Minutes Australia in 2015 how she brought two young cousins back to Scully who kept them in chains and dog collars. He later ordered them to dig graves in the basement and threatened to bury them unless they carried out depraved sex acts.

The series of videos comprising Daisy’s Destruction became Scully’s highest grossing production, with VIP pedophiles from the US, UK and Germany paying $10,000 per viewing.

But as it grew in infamy in pedophile forums and chatrooms across the globe it also brought him into the crosshairs of law enforcement, triggering an investigation in the Netherlands which grew into a global manhunt.

Hunched over a computer in the shabby office of this now-defunct Arkansas car lot and hiding behind the anonymity afforded by the Dark Web, the dad-of-seven repeatedly searched for Daisy’s Destruction, according to the government 

Josh and Anna Duggar, pictured with six of their seven young children, subscribed to a service in 2013 called Covenant Eyes that monitors adult internet use and would report 'objectionable material' to wife Anna, the court heard

Anna - who attended every day of trial with her husband - had remained composed throughout the hearing but started weeping as it ended. She left court alone after her husband was convicted and taken into police custody

Scully was tracked back to the Philippines where investigators located three of his victims, including the young child known as Daisy who was alive but deeply traumatized.

His face was blurred on film but investigators recognized the monster’s Australian accent and arrested him in February 2015.

Three years later Scully was convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape by sexual assault, the first of 75 charges he is still being tried for.

Prosecutors said that many of the investigators, journalists and officials who watched and listened to his videos were reduced to tears.

Scully is also charged with the murder of an 11-year-old girl whom authorities suspect he strangled with a rope and buried under a house he rented.

‘They were the most devastating thing I have ever seen,’ Ruby Malanog, one of the lawyers prosecuting Scully, told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2016.

‘I cried when I was watching them ... in fact I feel like crying just now while talking about it. It was hard to believe what I was seeing ... that somebody could do those things to children.’

Josh Duggar is put into a Sheriff's SUV to be taken away from court to be taken to jail after being convicted of child porn offenses

Duggar is spending his first nights in custody in the Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas

Forensic computer experts in the Duggar case did not find evidence that he watched Daisy’s Destruction, just that he searched and sought out the torrent file associated with it.

However they did establish that he downloaded numerous other titles including Pedo Mom, Play Tot Sweetie and more than 60 porn images known as the Marissa series using a peer-to-peer application called uTorrent.

Duggar’s downfall began on May 14, 2019 when his system made the first of two ‘digital handshakes’, not with another pervert, but with Detective Amber Kalmer of the Little Rock Police Department.

Kalmer was using a specialist police program called Torrential Downpour which targets pedophiles by catching them in the act of sharing child pornography files online.

Kalmer tipped off Feds who traced the IP address to Duggar's used car dealership, Wholesale Motorcars, in Springdale, Arkansas, and seized his office HP desktop, iPhone and MacBook.

After volunteering to speak with agents - but without knowing anything about the nature of the probe - Duggar asked them: 'Has someone been downloading child pornography?'

When forensic scientists studied the HP they found someone had installed complicated software called a Linux partition which creates a second, independent operating system within the same device.

The partition could only be accessed by rebooting, hitting F9 and entering the password intel1988 - the same password used for Duggar’s internet banking and the Duggar family Instagram and Twitter accounts.

It provided the secret online space where he could search for, download, then delete child pornography, all behind the innocent veneer of a standard work computer with a wallpaper of his family.

Josh Duggar made his name as the oldest of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 kids on the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting that ran for seven years before its 2015 cancellation

Defense lawyers contended that a former employee or hacker could have exploited Duggar’s lax internet security to hijack his computer and remotely download the material without anyone knowing.

But prosecutors branded their arguments a ‘fantasy’ and used texts and images to place the accused at the keyboard; jurors unanimously agreed with them.

The court also heard from a close family friend this week who shed new light on the molestation scandal that engulfed the Duggars in 2015, tarnishing their wholesome image and leading to the cancellation of their hit TLC show.

Bobye Holt choked back tears as she revealed how Duggar had confessed at age 15 to groping and penetrating his younger sisters during ‘bible time’ and while they slept.

The defense fought to exclude her testimony but the judge ultimately agreed that it provided important clues about his sinister appetite for minors.

Duggar, the eldest of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s nine daughters and ten sons, will be sentenced in the new year and faces up to 20 years in jail and a fine of $250,000 on each of two counts.

His lawyers say he will appeal the verdicts.   

Jurors deliberated for six hours before returning guilty verdicts on Thursday on charges of possessing child pornography and receipt of child pornography, both punishable by 20 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.

Duggar glanced anxiously toward his wife Anna and dad Jim Bob but showed little emotion as each juror was asked individually to reaffirm their decision.

The once clean-cut Christian star of 19 Kids and Counting finally broke down in tears, however, as marshals placed him in handcuffs but they allowed him to linger for a few moments beside his family in the public gallery.

'I love you', he mouthed towards Anna, also 33, who remained composed throughout the brief hearing before burying her head in a supporter's arms and weeping as it ended.