Kendra Duggar, wife of 19 children with Count Joseph Duggar, has been arrested
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Two days after the arrest of the former 19 Children and counting star Joseph Duggar, an arrest warrant for his wife Kendra Duggar was also issued and served.
According to the Tontitown Arkansas Police Department, the city where the Duggars live, Kendra Duggar was charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of false imprisonment – both in the second degree – on Friday.
According to the Tontitown Police Department, those charges were also issued against Joseph Duggar. Joseph Duggar’s first charges were arrested on Wednesday of last week for lewd behavior with a child under the age of 12.
At the time, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said the cases were related alleged molestation of a 9-year-old girl in 2020 in Panama Beach, Fla.
“The detectives found that the deceased’s father was the one facing him [Joseph] Duggar regarding the March 17, 2026 incidents,” the statement read. “Duggar admitted his actions to the victim’s father and to Tontitown detectives.”
Joseph Duggar was arrested in Tontitown last week. On Friday, he waived his right to a pretrial hearing, the first time he has been extradited to Florida to face charges of child molestation.
According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office website, Kendra Duggar was released shortly after her arrest on a $1,470 US bond. The Duggar family did not respond to CBC News’ request for comment on Monday.
19 Cancellation of children and counting
The separate set of charges against Joseph and Kendra Duggar comes nearly five years after Joseph Duggar’s older brother Josh was convicted of downloading child sexual abuse images.
In that case, investigators testified that a computer at Josh Duggar’s car dealership was used in 2019 to download images depicting the sexual abuse of children, including a toddler. In 2022 he was sentenced to 12½ years in prison. In 2024, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal against his conviction.
Josh and Joseph Duggar both star on the TLC show 19 Children and counting. That show followed an Independent Baptist couple — Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar — as they raised their children, all with the initials J.
After their first release, in 2004 14 Children and pregnant women too!an often-renamed series of TLC shows that can 19 Children ran from 2008 to 2015, when it was canceled following allegations that Josh Duggar had molested his four sisters and a nanny years earlier.
At the time, authorities began investigating after receiving a tip from a family friend but concluded that the statute of limitations on any possible charges had expired. Next series, 2015 The Countdown Continueswas canceled after Josh Duggar was arrested.
Joseph and Kendra Duggar dating and 2017 marriage was written on that show, although in recent years they have retreated from the limelight. The last post the couple made on their public Instagram account was in 2021, celebrating their child’s second birthday.
