Kendra Duggar, spouse of 19 Children and Counting’s Joseph Duggar, arrested

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Two days after the arrest of former 19 Children and Counting star Joseph Duggar, an arrest warrant for his spouse Kendra Duggar was additionally issued and served.

Based on the Tontitown Arkansas Police Division, the city wherein the Duggars reside, Kendra Duggar was charged with 4 counts of endangering the welfare of a minor and 4 counts of false imprisonment — each within the second diploma — on Friday.

Based on a launch by the Tontitown Police Division, these expenses had been additionally issued towards Joseph Duggar. Joseph Duggar's unique arrest expenses from Wednesday of final week had been for lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor below 12 years previous.

On the time, the Bay County Sheriff's Workplace said these expenses associated to the alleged 2020 molestation of a then-9-year-old lady in Panama Seashore, Fla.

"Investigators found the sufferer's father confronted [Joseph] Duggar about these incidents on March seventeenth, 2026," the assertion reads. "Duggar admitted his actions to the sufferer's father and to Tontitown Detectives."

Joseph Duggar was arrested in Tontitown final week. On Friday, he waived his proper to an extradition listening to, which set in movement his switch to Florida to face the kid molestation cost.

Based on the Washington County Sheriff's Workplace web site, Kendra Duggar was launched quickly after her arrest on a $1,470 US bond. The Duggar household didn't reply to a request for remark from CBC Information on Monday.

19 Children and Counting's cancellation The separate set of expenses towards each Joseph and Kendra Duggar come nearly 5 years after Joseph Duggar's older brother Josh was convicted of downloading baby sexual abuse pictures.

In that case, investigators testified that a pc at a automotive dealership owned by Josh Duggar was utilized in 2019 to obtain pictures depicting the sexual abuse of youngsters, together with toddlers. He was sentenced in 2022 to 12½ years in jail. In 2024, the Supreme Court docket rejected an attraction towards his conviction.

Josh and Joseph Duggar each starred within the TLC present 19 Children and Counting. That present adopted an Impartial Baptist couple — Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar — as they raised their kids, all with first names starting with the letter J.

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On the time, authorities started investigating after receiving a tip from a household good friend however concluded that the statute of limitations on any attainable expenses had expired. A follow-up sequence, 2015's Counting On, was cancelled after Josh Duggar's arrest.

Joseph and Kendra Duggar's courtship and 2017 marriage was documented on that present, although they've in recent times stepped again from the highlight. The final publish the couple made on their public Instagram account was from 2021, celebrating their third kid's second birthday.