Josh, 39, was charged with 15 counts of possession of kid pornography in 2020, earlier than he was indicted on 40 counts of sexual exploitation of youngsters. Per FOX 5 Atlanta, he pleaded responsible final month to twenty counts, with the opposite 20 dropped as a part of a plea deal.

He’ll reportedly serve 5 years behind bars and 15 on probation, throughout which he’ll have to stick to “intercourse offender” situations.

The investigation into Stapleton was reportedly launched in 2020 primarily based on an nameless tip, earlier than investigators claimed that, between 2018 and 2020, he downloaded “quite a few photos of prepubescent youngsters in sexually abusive conditions.”

In an 8-minute video posted final week, Brittani addressed her husband’s state of affairs — captioning her publish, “Let’s deal with the false statements.” Saying she has seen “quite a bit” of untruths surrounding Josh’s case and plea deal, Brittany mentioned her video was “to set the report straight.”

The primary assumption she corrected was anybody believing she “did not know” something concerning the costs or her husband’s alleged conduct earlier than the plea deal.

“Completely I knew. Josh and I had been associates approach earlier than we ever began courting. When the costs occurred, we had been associates, you higher consider I hit him up,” shared Brittani, who married Josh in 2023. “As quickly as I noticed it, I am a very good choose of character and one thing was up. That was not Josh. Josh was completely upfront with me about every thing within the costs, there have been no secrets and techniques.”

She then denied on-line hypothesis Josh instructed her his ex-wife “set him up,” with Brittani saying he has by no means been married earlier than and has by no means blamed any exes for the costs in opposition to him. She additionally pushed again at anybody saying Josh instructed her he purchased a laptop computer from Fb Martketplace that simply occurred to have already got the images on them. “Josh has by no means instructed me that, nor have I ever been round him telling anybody that,” she insisted.

Brittani then responded to folks questioning whether or not their associates with youngsters had been conscious of the costs in opposition to him.

“Completely. A, it has been everywhere in the web. Should you did not know, you simply did not know. However B, now we have by no means in our lives been in somebody’s home, round youngsters, and never allow them to know forward of time,” she claimed. “We do not need something to ever look sketchy. Guess what? Plenty of these folks have our backs as a result of they’ve personally seen Josh round their youngsters and know there isn’t any subject.”

She then pushed again in opposition to folks claiming Josh “had baby photos on his work laptop computer” — claiming that wasn’t attainable due to how “safe” work computer systems are, usually — earlier than capturing down allegations they had been “dwelling pretend lives” on Tiktok.

“There was nothing pretend about it. We had been simply dwelling like we all the time do. We’re nonetheless comfortable. He and I’ve no points,” she continued. “He has been absolutely clear and trustworthy with me. I do know every thing. I’ve been to court docket, I do know every thing.”

Brittani went on to disclaim having a “lavish” way of life “that we’re funding from baby photos,” insisting they often keep at low cost resorts and experience round on a 20-year-old boat, earlier than addressing gossip she “does not need youngsters as a result of she is aware of Josh is a toddler predator.”

“Since age 12, I’ve by no means needed youngsters. Not fascinated with having youngsters, by no means have been,” she insisted, claiming anybody who really is aware of her would know that.

She then ended her video with a message to different content material creators making movies about her husband’s plea deal.

“It isn’t the most effective factor on the planet to revenue off another person’s worst second. I’m one of the vital mentally robust folks you will ever meet … not everyone seems to be,” she mentioned. “So I am glad you guys selected me for this and to present me hell, like I did not simply undergo the worst week of my life, like I didn’t simply lose my greatest buddy. however I might say, take into consideration that, assume actually exhausting. It might be actually troublesome to sleep at night time when you had been the trigger for somebody to not be on this earth.”

She additionally briefly addressed the authorized mess on Instagram, sharing a photograph of the 2 collectively (beneath) with the straightforward caption, “If that is the assertion you are in search of, right here it’s.”

In case you are experiencing or witness baby abuse, name the Childhelp Nationwide Youngster Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Youngster or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. Should you consider a toddler is in quick hazard, name 911.