“Sickened” Amy Duggar Slams Joseph Duggar After Arrest on Child Molestation
Joseph Duggar's cousin Amy Duggar King reacted to his arrest on child molestation charges, asserting she's “no longer bowled over that one other alleged predator has emerged from this toxic machine.”
Converse material warning: This anecdote discusses child sexual abuse.
Amy Duggar King is breaking her silence on her cousin Joseph Duggar's arrest.
The Holy Disruptor creator addressed the allegations in opposition to the 31-twelve months-dilapidated, who became once charged with lewd and lascivious behavior engaging illegal sexual exercise with a minor on March 18 over a series of alleged incidents with a then-9-twelve months-dilapidated girl in 2020.
“I am sickened, heartbroken and deeply exasperated,” Amy began in a March 20 statement to Folks. “My first tips are with the sufferer, a child who deserved to be trusty, trusty and surrounded by folks she is going to also have confidence.”
Even supposing the 39-twelve months-dilapidated acknowledged she became once “fully terrified to listen to about these allegations and Joseph’s arrest,” she critical, “On the the same time, I am no longer bowled over that one other alleged predator has emerged from this toxic machine.”
“For years, I possess spoken out in regards to the significance of truth, accountability and retaining kids, even when it intended going in opposition to my have family,” persisted Amy, whose cousin Josh Duggar, 38, is serving a 12-twelve months jail sentence on child pornography charges. “Household ties should unexcited never equal computerized have confidence or earn admission to, in particular in relation to the protection of children.”
“When a image is trusty over truth, and silence is chosen over accountability, it creates an setting the put abuse can thrive,” the frail TLC star shared. “I possess worked exhausting to fracture cycles in every my extended family and my instantaneous family.”
Praising the alleged sufferer for “the braveness it took for her to arrive assist ahead, in particular after years of carrying something so heavy,” Amy acknowledged that she's praying for the now-14-twelve months-dilapidated and her family “as they creep through what is definite to be an extremely subtle toll road ahead.”
“Recognizing that we attain no longer yet know the corpulent image, I am also praying for Joseph’s wife, Kendra, as she begins to route of this, and for the protection of their kids,” Amy added. “I'm praying for eyes to be opened and above all, I pray that justice would possibly perhaps well be served to the fullest.”
Joseph became once taken into custody in his home convey of Arkansas, the put he lives along with his wife of eight years and their four children. In accordance with authorities, he’s looking ahead to extradition to Florida, the put the alleged incident with the girl took location during a family lag back and forth.
“The sufferer reported Duggar over and over requested her to sit down down on his lap. Because the lag back and forth persisted, he also requested her to sit down down next to him on a sofa and lined them with a blanket,” the Bay County Sheriff's Place of job in Florida acknowledged in a March 18 press open. “At some stage in this time, Duggar manipulated the sufferer’s underclothes and grazed her genitals. Duggar would also proceed to rub his fingers on her thighs.”
Joseph “indirectly apologized for his actions and the incidents stopped,” authorities acknowledged, and “admitted his actions” to investigators when the alleged sufferer's father confronted him on the day prior.
Within the wake of Joseph's arrest, his sister Jill Duggar acknowledged she became once “terrified and heartbroken.”
“We strongly condemn abuse,” read a family statement shared on the 34-twelve months-dilapidated and husband Derick Dillard's blog March 19. “We make stronger the guideline of law and hope that justice would possibly perhaps well be done. Our hearts exit to the innocent juvenile sufferer of this unspeakable crime and her family. We pray God offers her strength, consolation and hope, and that she is willing to earn your entire assist and make stronger she desires and deserves within the times ahead.”
For additional details on the Duggar family, read on.
Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar
The folks of 19 and grandparents of over three dozen tiny ones started off as high college sweethearts.
Michelle has recalled being “saved” at 15. Then, one evening, Jim Bob became once making home outreach visits on behalf of his Baptist church and he ended up knocking on the Ruark family's door after his friend urged him that “this girl from college that handsome got saved and is a cheerleader” lived there.
They invited Michelle to Sunday college at their church and, Jim Bob acknowledged, he prayed to god that they would perhaps be every numerous's non secular leaders—though it sounds as if their first assembly wasn't as memorable for Michelle. A twelve months later, she applied for a job at the frozen yogurt store owned by Jim Bob's folks. “You came to the counter the put I became once standing by the money register and launched yourself,” Michelle remembered in a letter posted on the family blog in 2017 for Jim Bob's birthday and their Thirty third marriage ceremony anniversary. “You were nervous nonetheless very sweet! I in fact don't endure in mind phenomenal about that conversation, excluding that you just indirectly mustered up the braveness to seek data from me if I’d lag to your junior-senior feast with you!”
She attended the dinner with him at Shiloh Christian, nonetheless it became once after they frolicked later on discussing the Bible for hours at her folks' home that she knew.”From there, we judge our hearts were knit collectively,” Michelle has acknowledged. “We graduated high college in Could perhaps additionally merely of 1984 and were married in July. I became once 17 and Jim Bob became once 19.”
40 Years Later…
The couple devoted themselves to God and each numerous for the long fling.
Jim Bob is a frail convey legislator, having served within the Arkansas Dwelling of Representatives for the sixth district from 1999 unless 2002, during which he became once vice chair of the Dwelling of Corrections and Criminal Legislation Subcommittee. A fling for U.S. Senate in 2002 ended within the first, as did a provide an explanation for in 2006 to alter into the Republican nominee for Arkansas Enlighten Senate District 35.
He and Michelle, who’re every licensed realtors, had been active in conservative causes—an facet of their lifestyle that received them and 19 Kids and Counting (which premiered in 2008 as 17 Kids and Counting) every proud supporters and fierce critics.
As of October 2024, they were grandparents of 33 with three on the technique.
Josh Duggar (m. Anna Keller)
Eldest Duggar child Josh Duggar became once born March 3, 1988. He too became a conservative activist, campaigning for the Household Analysis Council.
He stepped down after dilapidated police data surfaced in 2015 revealing that he had been accused of molesting several girls, including his sisters Jessa Duggar and Jill Duggar, when he became once an adolescent. Jessa defended her brother in a sit down-down with Fox Information that June, insisting that the worst names folks were calling Josh were “so overboard and a lie, in fact. I mean folks earn exasperated at me for asserting that, nonetheless I will boom this because I became once one of the most victims.”
His wife Anna Duggar—whom he married in a Sept. 26, 2008, ceremony featured on 19 Kids and Counting—also stuck by him, including after he admitted to being unfaithful.
When he checked into a therapy middle in 2016, his folks known as it “the largest first step in getting better and healing.”
Folks of three—daughter Mackynzie (Oct. 8, 2009) and sons Michael (June 15, 2011) and Marcus (June 2, 2013)—when the scandal broke, Anna gave starting up to their fourth child, Meredith, on July 16, 2015, the the same day TLC canceled 19 Kids. Their fifth child, son Mason Garett, became once born Sept. 12, 2017, daughter Maryella Hope arrived Nov. 27, 2019 and tiny one No. 7, Madyson Lily, became once born Oct. 23, 2021.
In a federal indictment filed in April 2021, Josh became once charged with a depend apiece of receipt and possession of kid pornography. He pleaded no longer guilty on every counts. In 2022, Josh became once found guilty of every (nonetheless the possession price became once vacated by the resolve) and sentenced to 12 and a half years in jail.
John-David Duggar and Jana Duggar
Right now after Josh became once born, Michelle got pregnant again, nonetheless suffered a miscarriage. While she and Jim Bob were unexcited grieving that loss and praying for steering, they discovered that twins were on the technique.
“We felt it became once a double blessing,” she urged Cherish to Know. “God became once encouraging our hearts. We're unexcited discovering out. It's in fact so irregular, because I breastfeed my babies, nonetheless my kids are so shut collectively. I possess a tiny one after which eight months later I'm searching at for. Proper one other irregular thing the Lord has considered fit to attain with our convey.”
John-David Duggar and his twin sister Jana Duggar were born on Jan. 12, 1990.
John-David Duggar (m. Abbie-Grace Burnett)
After a whirlwind courtship (they did know of every numerous for several years, ahead of assembly at a church tournament in Abbie's home convey of Oklahoma) and a fast engagement, John-David and Abbie-Grace Burnett got married on Nov. 3, 2018.
They welcomed daughter Grace Annette Duggar on Jan. 7, 2020 and son Charlie Duggar in September 2022.
On their 30th birthday in January 2020, Jana wrote in a sweet message, “Ever since John and I were tiny we've been requested if we possess now that 'twin thing'. , the article the put you too can be feeling what the many one is feeling or know what the many one is pondering…Effectively, John, I've forever answered that with a no—nonetheless now I will in fact boom that the day tiny Gracie became once born I felt every little bit of happiness that you just did, so I speak it must be real!”
Jana persisted, “It's so sweet searching at you & Abbie as folks! You're naturals! And the the same qualities which possess made you a nice brother will also construct you an fabulous dad.”
Abbie and John-David welcomed their third child, a tiny one girl, in February 2026.
Jana Duggar (m. Stephen Wissmann)
Jana watched 11 of her 18 brothers and sisters earn married ahead of she found love with Stephen Wissmann—whose sister Hannah Wissmann is married to the TLC alum's brother Jeremiah—nonetheless despite some admitted frustrations, she maintained it became once all a part of God's opinion.
“I haven't forever understood what the larger image is, nonetheless I do know that God is aware of what is simplest for all of us. And so for me, it's getting married later,” Jana urged Folks ahead of her Aug. 15, 2024, marriage ceremony. “Each of our reports would possibly perhaps well be written otherwise. If we were your entire staunch identical, it’d be a fling of the mill existence.”
On Dec. 30, 2025, the couple welcomed their first child, son Archie Gerald Wissmann.
Jill Duggar (m. Derick Dillard)
Jill (Duggar) Dillard became once born on Could perhaps additionally merely 17, 1991. In a love anecdote paying homage to her folks', Jill first met Derick (who grew up about Forty five minutes away) on Christmas 2011 when he stopped by the Duggar family home while out caroling along with his church community.
Jim Bob performed matchmaker, and Jill and Derick hit it off, rising closer over e mail and Skype. Father and daughter went to talk over with Derick in Nepal that November and Jill and Derick persisted to plunge for every numerous. In February 2014, Derick requested Jim Bob for his daughter's hand in marriage, and they tied the knot on June 21, 2014. They’re folks to 3 sons—Israel, born on April 6, 2015, Samuel, born July 8, 2017, and Frederick, born July 7, 2022.
In April 2024, Jill shared that she had suffered a being pregnant loss while searching at for her and Derick's first tiny one girl.
Jill and Derick reflected on the controversies and non secular beliefs surrounding her family within the Amazon Top Video documentary Spirited Happy Folks: Duggar Household Secrets, which premiered in June 2023.
Jessa Duggar (m. Ben Seewald)
Jim Bob and Michelle's fifth child, Jessa Duggar, became once born Nov. 4, 1992.
Jessa met Ben through church and he began dating her in 2013—the dilapidated-long-established option to romance coming as a ticket-fresh conception to loads of viewers. The kids never talked about their romances pre-engagement, so Jim Bob explained to Folks, “Courting is getting to know every numerous in a community setting, every families spending time collectively and the couple setting dreams collectively to resolve if they’re intended to marry. With relationship, a pair will continuously pair off by myself and that customarily ends in a extra physical relationship.”
Ben requested for Jessa's hand after which proposed in August 2014—sealing the deal by retaining her hand for the first time. They married on Nov. 1, 2014. Jessa became once pregnant with their first child when 19 Kids and Counting became once canceled and TLC subsequently aired a numerous about sexual abuse, featuring Jill and Jessa, to additional educate viewers on the topic. The sisters would stop up the stars of their very have expose, Jill and Jessa: Counting On, that iciness; the expose then developed to alter into Counting On, featuring numerous Duggar siblings as well.
Meanwhile, Jessa and Ben welcomed son Spurgeon on Nov. 5, 2015, son Henry on Feb. 6, 2017, daughter Ivy Jane on Could perhaps additionally merely 28, 2019 and daughter Fern in July 2021. In February 2023, Jessa shared that she suffered a miscarriage over the 2022 vacation season. She gave starting up to son George in December 2023.
In August 2025, Jessa announced the starting up of son Edward.
Jinger Duggar (m. Jeremy Vuolo)
The sixth Duggar child, Jinger Vuolo, became once born Dec. 21, 1993.
Jinger and Jeremy met doing ministry work in Laredo, Texas, and commenced dating in 2016. They married on Nov. 5, 2016 (the bride's nephew Spurgeon's birthday—nonetheless you handsome are attempting no longer overlapping milestones whenever you happen to're one of 19), and were promptly the topic of being pregnant rumors.
“The put we peek ourselves in a twelve months is maybe handsome settled down, unexcited doing ministry right here in Laredo, and handsome trying for to assist the Lord, nonetheless, we are able to,” Jinger acknowledged on a June 2017 episode of Counting On.
Their daughter Felicity became once born July 19, 2018. In Could perhaps additionally merely of that twelve months, they printed that Jinger became once pregnant again—and that she had suffered a miscarriage the outdated plunge. In November 2020, they welcomed daughter Evangeline Jo.
Son Finnegan Charles became once born March 29, 2025.
Joseph Duggar (m. Kendra Caldwell)
No. 7 Joseph Duggar became once born on Jan. 20, 1995. Taking abet of the romantic setting, Joseph proposed to Kendra (whom he met through church) at his sister Joy-Anna's marriage ceremony in Could perhaps additionally merely 2017 after handsome a pair of months of dating.
“I became once positively nervous going into it, nonetheless I wasn't disquieted that she became once going to utter no, because she has acknowledged, 'I'm handsome waiting on you!'” Joseph urged Folks after popping the ask of. Added Kendra, “I'm so pleased and so terrified. There's so many phrases I must boom, nonetheless handsome terrified.”
They've since announced the births of son Garrett, born June 2018, daughter Addison, born November 2019, daughter Brooklyn, born February 2021, and son Justus, born 2022.
On March 18, 2026, Joseph became once arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior engaging illegal sexual exercise with a minor for allegedly molesting a then-9-twelve months-dilapidated girl in 2020.
Two days later, Kendra became once arrested for endangering the welfare of a minor and wrong imprisonment.
Josiah Duggar (m. Lauren Swanson)
Eighth in line, Josiah Duggar became once born on Aug. 28, 1996.
Proper a pair of months after his courtship with Lauren went public, the couple announced their engagement in March 2018. “The placement the put I proposed to Lauren is the staunch put the put her folks were engaged,” he acknowledged in a statement. “There's lots of family history on this property making it a numerous location for Lauren.”
Her future mother-in-law, Michelle, acknowledged in a video posted on the family's blog, “We admire Lauren, she is this kind of precious girl.” Jessa and Ben also offered congratulations, and chocolate shaped admire x's and o's. “Honest definite that y'all must set your first kiss on your marriage ceremony day, nonetheless within the event you arrive over right here we'll give you…” She held up the sweet consolation prize.
A outdated courtship with Marjorie Jackson didn't determine and they went their separate recommendations within the summer season of 2015. “Marjorie and I had a ethical time collectively,” Josiah recalled to Folks in March 2016. “We were handsome attempting to note God's lead on every little thing. She didn't feel that it became once the correct timing then, so we known as it quits for a piece.”
He and Lauren tied the knot June 30, 2018, telling Folks their marriage ceremony day became once “absolutely ultimate.” They welcomed daughter Bella Milagro on Nov. 8, 2019—the title translating to “miracle tiny one,” after the couple printed Lauren had suffered a miscarriage in October 2018. They welcomed one other daughter, Daisy, in 2022, and a son named Ezra in Could perhaps additionally merely 2023.
Joy-Anna Duggar (m. Austin Forsyth)
Ninth sibling Joy-Anna Duggar became once born Oct. 28, 1997.
She knew Austin Forsyth for 15 years as a friend ahead of he started dating her—after which they didn't raze any time. He proposed in February 2017 and they married on Could perhaps additionally merely 26, 2017, at Execrable Church in Rogers, Ark. (the marriage ceremony the put Joseph proposed to Kendra!).
Joy & Austin Forsyth
Joy-Anna and Austin welcomed son Gideon Martin Forsyth on Feb. 23, 2018, daughter Evelyn Mae Forsyth on Aug. 21, 2020, and son Gunner James Forsyth on Could perhaps additionally merely 17, 2023.
Jedidiah Duggar and Jeremiah Duggar
Jim Bob and Michelle's second convey of twins, Jed Duggar and Jeremiah Duggar, were born on Dec. 30, 1998.
Jedidiah Duggar (m. Katey Nakatsu)
Jed married Katey Nakatsu after one twelve months of dating in April 2021. They’re folks to son Truett, born Could perhaps additionally merely 2022, and daughter Nora Kate, born June 2023.
Jed and Katey announced in July 2024 that they’d twin girls on the technique, and daughters Elsie Kate and Emma Kate were born Jan. 8, 2025.
Jeremiah Duggar (m. Hannah Wissmann)
Jeremiah, a licensed flight teacher, is married to Hannah Wissmann (Jana's husband Stephen's sister) and the two are folks to daughter Brynley, born December 2022, and Brielle, born February 2024.
They announced the appearance of their third daughter, Emery 'Emy' Jane Duggar, on Could perhaps additionally merely 18, 2025.
Jason Duggar (m. Maddie Grace)
No. 12 Jason Duggar became once born on April 21, 2000.
In January 2017, the Day-to-day Mail reported that Jim Bob helped Jase aquire a $33,000 fixer-higher in Prairie Grove, Ark., about half-hour away from the Duggar family location dwelling, and he ended up starting his have constructing firm.
He went Instagram legit with female friend Maddie Grace in Could perhaps additionally merely 2024 and the two married the following October.
James Duggar
Charmed No. 13, James Duggar became once born July 7, 2001.
No longer publicly dating a most likely most important numerous yet, he's a doting uncle to dozens of nieces and nephews.
“He is the 'funcle' (fun uncle!) and your entire younger boys around right here designate as a lot as him and must be handsome admire him!” mother Michelle wrote on his nineteenth birthday in 2019. “James is willing to attain handsome in regards to the relaxation he thinks up. At the same time as a child, we would in discovering James 'fixing' hundreds of household appliances. He has forever been one to preserve shut issues apart, determine how they work, and set them assist collectively—with a pair of particular changes!
“This twelve months James worked exhausting to earn his CDL, and he has change into an authority at utilizing your entire gigantic trucks and heavy machinery! We are able to't wait to peek what God has in store for him within the long fling!”
Justin Duggar (m. Claire Spivey)
No. 14 Justin Duggar arrived on Nov. 15, 2002.
He went public with female friend Claire Spivey in September 2020. The two got engaged the following November and married on Feb. 26, 2021.
Jackson Duggar
Here along with his gigantic sister Jill, Jim Bob and Michelle's 15th child Jackson Duggar became once born Could perhaps additionally merely 23, 2004.
On his 16th birthday, mother Michelle praised Jackson's humorousness and critical that she knew he couldn't wait to earn his driver's license.
Johannah Duggar
Johannah Duggar became once born Oct. 11, 2005, hence the distinctive family particular known as 16 Kids and Engaging In.
“This girl is so fun and outgoing, and he or she loves making fresh associates,” Michelle wrote on her 16th child's 15th birthday in 2020. “Her younger sisters absolutely admire her and speak she hung the moon, and I couldn't be extra grateful to God for deciding on me to be her Mom!”
Jennifer Duggar
Jennifer Duggar arrived on Aug. 2, 2007, then the tiny one of the most family.
Their TLC expose that premiered Sept. 29, 2008, became once christened 17 Kids and Counting.
Now, OMG, she's an adolescent.
“Jennifer is real, trusty… and fun!” Michelle wrote when her tiny girl grew to alter into 13. “She is a favourite with the nieces and nephews and is in most cases carrying one of them around because they don't need her to position them down! Jennifer also has a numerous love for animals and is terribly faithful to tackle her pets each day! She currently helped elevate a litter of seven tiny bunnies!”
Jordyn-Grace Duggar
Here on the correct, the penultimate Duggar child became once born Dec. 18, 2008.
In 2019, her mother known as Jordyn-Grace an “outgoing girl who has never met a stranger,” with a snicker that “is continuously one of the most brightest spots in our day.”
Josie Duggar
No. 19 Josie Duggar, right here retaining niece Meredith, became once born on Dec. 10, 2009—three months premature and weighing finest 1 pound, 6 oz, and spent six months within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
“Josie is a ball of vitality,” Michelle wrote on her tiny one's 11th birthday in 2020. “From the time she wakes up within the morning unless her head hits the pillow at evening, she rarely slows down!”
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