“Disgusted” Jason Duggar Slams Brother Joseph Duggar Over Youngster Molestation Arrest
19 Younger of us and Counting alum Jason Duggar referred to as out the “damaging actions” of older brother Joseph Duggar, who was arrested earlier in March for allegedly molesting a 9-yr-used lady in 2020.
Deliver warning: This myth discusses youngster sexual abuse.
Jason Duggar is distancing himself from his older brother.
The 19 Younger of us and Counting alum and his wife Maddie Duggar condemned Joseph Duggar over his March 18 arrest for allegedly molesting a 9-yr-used lady in the course of a Florida vacation in 2020.
“We, like many, receive spent the week utterly panicked, at a loss for words, and grieved to list just a few emotions,” Jason and Maddie said in an announcement shared on Instagram March 26. “We’re disgusted to hear the news about my brother, nonetheless, this isn't about the strategy it's impacted our lives. Our hearts are careworn because a teen's lifestyles has been grew to turn out to be the unsuitable method up attributable to damaging actions of someone who must receive never afflict the prone.”
The couple said they are “angered” by the “unthinkable” danger.
“Maddie and I receive consistently had a various space in our hearts for the prone around us, and we can continue to assemble so,” Jason, 25, continued. “To fathom that somebody would abuse their authority to bother the innocent is vile.”
“We query that you just pray for the victim who has been audacious ample to allotment what has came about. We also query that you just pray for his household at this time, as his young of us have to face the truth of losing a father that must receive been a spiritual leader of their lives,” they added. “We stand with innocent young of us. Regularly.”
Joseph, 31, was arrested in Arkansas earlier this month after allegedly confessing to the victim's father and native police, per the Bay County Sheriff's Space of enterprise in Florida.
The woman, now 14, alleged that Joseph had sexually abused her in the course of “quite loads of” previous incidents.
“The victim reported Duggar many times requested her to sit down on his lap,” the sheriff's space of job said in a March 18 assertion. “Because the vacation continued, he also requested her to sit down next to him on a couch and covered them with a blanket. All the strategy thru this time, Duggar manipulated the victim’s underclothes and grazed her genitals. Duggar would also continue to rub his palms on her thighs.”
Two days later, Joseph's wife Kendra Caldwell—with whom he shares four young of us—was arrested as properly. Each and each were charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor in the 2nd level and four counts of deceptive imprisonment in the 2nd level, Arkansas' Tontitown Police Division said in a press release.
Within the wake of the allegations, quite loads of household contributors receive spoken out in opposition to Joseph, including sister Jinger Duggar and her husband Jeremy Vuolo, who distanced themselves from her household with a pass to Los Angeles in 2019.
“I didn’t command my heart would perchance doubtless doubtless damage prefer it has this week,” Jinger said on the March 25 episode of The Jinger & Jeremy Podcast. “The ache and heartbreak that we’ve had over this and intensely most attention-grabbing thinking of the strategy it’s affected so many. It’s very most attention-grabbing unthinkable. It’s so tough and painful on many stages.”
E! News has reached out to the Duggars for commentary on the costs, but hasn't heard attend.
Relieve reading for a full breakdown of the Duggar household tree.
Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar
The oldsters of 19 and grandparents of over three dozen shrimp ones started off as high college sweethearts.
Michelle has recalled being “saved” at 15. Then, one evening, Jim Bob was making dwelling outreach visits on behalf of his Baptist church and he ended up knocking on the Ruark household's door after his very most attention-grabbing friend instructed him that “this lady from college that very most attention-grabbing bought saved and is a cheerleader” lived there.
They invited Michelle to Sunday college at their church and, Jim Bob said, he prayed to god that they would perchance doubtless very properly be one one more's non secular leaders—though it sounds as if their first assembly wasn't as memorable for Michelle. A yr later, she utilized for a job on the frozen yogurt shop owned by Jim Bob's fogeys. “You came to the counter the set I was standing by the money register and launched your self,” Michelle remembered in a letter posted on the household weblog in 2017 for Jim Bob's birthday and their thirty third wedding anniversary. “You were alarmed but very sweet! I in fact don't endure in suggestions considerable about that dialog, excluding that you just in the shatter mustered up the courage to inquire from me if I’d hurry to your junior-senior feast with you!”
She attended the dinner with him at Shiloh Christian, but it was when they spent time later on discussing the Bible for hours at her fogeys' dwelling that she knew.”From there, we imagine our hearts were knit collectively,” Michelle has said. “We graduated high college in Could additionally of 1984 and were married in July. I was 17 and Jim Bob was 19.”
40 Years Later…
The couple dedicated themselves to God and one one more for the prolonged term.
Jim Bob is a frail advise legislator, having served in the Arkansas Dwelling of Representatives for the sixth district from 1999 till 2002, in the course of which he was vice chair of the Dwelling of Corrections and Felony Laws Subcommittee. A hotfoot for U.S. Senate in 2002 resulted in the main, as did a record in 2006 to turn out to be the Republican nominee for Arkansas Teach Senate District 35.
He and Michelle, who’re both licensed realtors, receive been though-provoking in conservative causes—an side of their standard of living that gained them and 19 Younger of us and Counting (which premiered in 2008 as 17 Younger of us and Counting) both proud supporters and fierce critics.
As of October 2024, they were grandparents of 33 with three on the manner.
Josh Duggar (m. Anna Keller)
Eldest Duggar youngster Josh Duggar was born March 3, 1988. He too grew to turn out to be a conservative activist, campaigning for the Family Learn Council.
He stepped down after used police records surfaced in 2015 revealing that he had been accused of molesting quite loads of girls, including his sisters Jessa Duggar and Jill Duggar, when he was a teen. Jessa defended her brother in a sit-down with Fox News that June, insisting that the worst names of us were calling Josh were “so overboard and a lie, in fact. I imply of us win wrathful at me for asserting that, but I will command this because I was regarded as one of the victims.”
His wife Anna Duggar—whom he married in a Sept. 26, 2008, ceremony featured on 19 Younger of us and Counting—also caught by him, including after he admitted to being unfaithful.
When he checked correct into a therapy heart in 2016, his fogeys referred to as it “a prime first step in convalescing and therapeutic.”
Folk 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 youngster, Meredith, on July 16, 2015, the the same day TLC canceled 19 Younger of us. Their fifth youngster, son Mason Garett, was born Sept. 12, 2017, daughter Maryella Hope arrived Nov. 27, 2019 and child No. 7, Madyson Lily, was born Oct. 23, 2021.
In a federal indictment filed in April 2021, Josh was charged with a depend apiece of receipt and possession of sweet sixteen pornography. He pleaded now not responsible on both counts. In 2022, Josh was chanced on responsible of both (but the possession payment was vacated by the settle) and sentenced to 12 and a half years in penal advanced.
John-David Duggar and Jana Duggar
Quickly after Josh was born, Michelle bought pregnant as soon as more, but suffered a miscarriage. While she and Jim Bob were peaceful grieving that loss and praying for guidance, they chanced on out that twins were on the manner.
“We felt it was a double blessing,” she instructed Are attempting to Know. “God was encouraging our hearts. We're peaceful learning. It's in fact so unfamiliar, because I breastfeed my infants, but my young of us are so conclude collectively. I receive a child and then eight months later I'm looking ahead to. Lawful one other unfamiliar ingredient the Lord has considered fit to assemble with our danger.”
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 one one more for quite loads of years, earlier than assembly at a church match in Abbie's dwelling advise of Oklahoma) and a transient engagement, John-David and Abbie-Grace Burnett bought married on Nov. 3, 2018.
They welcomed daughter Grace Annette Duggar on Jan. 7, 2020 and son Charlie Duggar in September 2022.
On their thirtieth birthday in January 2020, Jana wrote in a sweet message, “Ever since John and I were shrimp we've been requested if we’ve that 'twin ingredient'. You appreciate, the ingredient the set you’re feeling what the choice one is feeling or know what the choice one is thinking…Correctly, John, I've consistently answered that with a no—but now I will in fact command that the day shrimp Gracie was born I felt every bit of happiness that you just doubtlessly did, so I guess it needs to be right!”
Jana continued, “It's so sweet watching you & Abbie as fogeys! You're naturals! And the the same qualities that receive made you a marvelous brother would perchance also accomplish you an improbable dad.”
Abbie and John-David welcomed their third youngster, a child lady, in February 2026.
Jana Duggar (m. Stephen Wissmann)
Jana watched 11 of her 18 brothers and sisters win married earlier than she chanced on like with Stephen Wissmann—whose sister Hannah Wissmann is married to the TLC alum's brother Jeremiah—but no topic some admitted frustrations, she maintained it was all phase of God's notion.
“I haven't consistently understood what the larger portray is, but I know that God knows what’s supreme for all of us. And so for me, it's getting married later,” Jana instructed Folk sooner than her Aug. 15, 2024, wedding. “Every of our tales will likely be written otherwise. If we were your entire proper identical, it would be a tiresome lifestyles.”
On Dec. 30, 2025, the couple welcomed their first youngster, son Archie Gerald Wissmann.
Jill Duggar (m. Derick Dillard)
Jill (Duggar) Dillard was born on Could additionally 17, 1991. In a like myth paying homage to her fogeys', Jill first met Derick (who grew up about forty five minutes away) on Christmas 2011 when he stopped by the Duggar household location condominium whereas out caroling along with his church neighborhood.
Jim Bob played matchmaker, and Jill and Derick win on well, rising closer over e-mail and Skype. Father and daughter went to say over with Derick in Nepal that November and Jill and Derick continued to fall for one one more. In February 2014, Derick requested Jim Bob for his daughter's hand in marriage, and they also tied the knot on June 21, 2014. They’re fogeys to some 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 whereas looking ahead to her and Derick's first child lady.
Jill and Derick mirrored on the controversies and non secular beliefs surrounding her household in the Amazon High Video documentary Titillating Totally chuffed Folk: Duggar Family Secrets and techniques, which premiered in June 2023.
Jessa Duggar (m. Ben Seewald)
Jim Bob and Michelle's fifth youngster, Jessa Duggar, was born Nov. 4, 1992.
Jessa met Ben thru church and he started courting her in 2013—the used-accepted skill to romance coming as a designate-new idea to quite loads of viewers. The kids never talked about their romances pre-engagement, so Jim Bob defined to Folk, “Dating is getting to know one one more in a neighborhood setting, both families spending time collectively and the couple setting targets collectively to settle in the event that they are supposed to marry. With relationship, a couple will normally pair off on my own and that normally leads to a extra physical relationship.”
Ben requested for Jessa's hand and then proposed in August 2014—sealing the deal by holding her hand for the first time. They married on Nov. 1, 2014. Jessa was pregnant with their first youngster when 19 Younger of us and Counting was canceled and TLC therefore aired a various about sexual abuse, featuring Jill and Jessa, to extra educate viewers on the sphere. The sisters would stop up the stars of their non-public discover, Jill and Jessa: Counting On, that iciness; the discover then evolved to turn out to be Counting On, featuring other Duggar siblings as properly.
Within the intervening time, Jessa and Ben welcomed son Spurgeon on Nov. 5, 2015, son Henry on Feb. 6, 2017, daughter Ivy Jane on Could additionally 28, 2019 and daughter Fern in July 2021. In February 2023, Jessa shared that she suffered a miscarriage over the 2022 holiday season. She gave starting up to son George in December 2023.
In August 2025, Jessa launched the starting up of son Edward.
Jinger Duggar (m. Jeremy Vuolo)
The sixth Duggar youngster, Jinger Vuolo, was born Dec. 21, 1993.
Jinger and Jeremy met doing ministry work in Laredo, Texas, and started courting in 2016. They married on Nov. 5, 2016 (the bride's nephew Spurgeon's birthday—but you very most attention-grabbing strive now not overlapping milestones have to you're regarded as one of 19), and were promptly the sphere of being pregnant rumors.
“The set we look ourselves in a yr is doubtlessly very most attention-grabbing settled down, peaceful doing ministry here in Laredo, and intensely most attention-grabbing seeking to serve the Lord, nonetheless, we can,” Jinger said on a June 2017 episode of Counting On.
Their daughter Felicity was born July 19, 2018. In Could additionally of that yr, they published that Jinger was pregnant as soon as more—and that she had suffered a miscarriage the outdated fall. In November 2020, they welcomed daughter Evangeline Jo.
Son Finnegan Charles was born March 29, 2025.
Joseph Duggar (m. Kendra Caldwell)
No. 7 Joseph Duggar was born on Jan. 20, 1995. Taking very most attention-grabbing thing regarding the romantic setting, Joseph proposed to Kendra (whom he met thru church) at his sister Pleasure-Anna's wedding in Could additionally 2017 after very most attention-grabbing just a few months of courting.
“I was positively nervous going into it, but I wasn't panicked that she was going to express no, because she has said, 'I'm very most attention-grabbing ready on you!'” Joseph instructed Folk after popping the query. Added Kendra, “I'm so chuffed and so panicked. There's so many words I’d like to express, but very most attention-grabbing panicked.”
They've since launched 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 was arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious habits interesting unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor for allegedly molesting a then-9-yr-used lady in 2020.
Two days later, Kendra was arrested for endangering the welfare of a minor and deceptive imprisonment.
Josiah Duggar (m. Lauren Swanson)
Eighth in line, Josiah Duggar was born on Aug. 28, 1996.
Lawful just a few months after his courtship with Lauren went public, the couple launched their engagement in March 2018. “The space the set I proposed to Lauren is the categorical space the set her fogeys were engaged,” he said in an announcement. “There's loads of household historic previous on this property making it a various space for Lauren.”
Her future accomplice’s mother, Michelle, said in a video posted on the household's weblog, “We cherish Lauren, she is this kind of treasured lady.” Jessa and Ben also equipped congratulations, and chocolate shaped like x's and o's. “Somewhat optimistic that y'all would prefer to place your first kiss for your wedding day, but have to you attain over here we'll come up with…” She held up the sweet consolation prize.
A outdated courtship with Marjorie Jackson didn't figure out and they also went their separate ways in the summer of 2015. “Marjorie and I had an acceptable time collectively,” Josiah recalled to Folk in March 2016. “We were very most attention-grabbing attempting to look at God's lead on all the pieces. She didn't feel that it was the very most attention-grabbing timing then, so we referred to as it quits for barely.”
He and Lauren tied the knot June 30, 2018, telling Folk their wedding day was “fully very most attention-grabbing.” They welcomed daughter Bella Milagro on Nov. 8, 2019—the name translating to “miracle child,” after the couple published Lauren had suffered a miscarriage in October 2018. They welcomed one other daughter, Daisy, in 2022, and a son named Ezra in Could additionally 2023.
Pleasure-Anna Duggar (m. Austin Forsyth)
Ninth sibling Pleasure-Anna Duggar was born Oct. 28, 1997.
She knew Austin Forsyth for 15 years as an very very most attention-grabbing friend earlier than he started courting her—after which they didn't shatter any time. He proposed in February 2017 and they also married on Could additionally 26, 2017, at Unfavorable Church in Rogers, Ark. (the wedding the set Joseph proposed to Kendra!).
Pleasure & Austin Forsyth
Pleasure-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 additionally 17, 2023.
Jedidiah Duggar and Jeremiah Duggar
Jim Bob and Michelle's 2nd residing of twins, Jed Duggar and Jeremiah Duggar, were born on Dec. 30, 1998.
Jedidiah Duggar (m. Katey Nakatsu)
Jed married Katey Nakatsu after one yr of courting in April 2021. They’re fogeys to son Truett, born Could additionally 2022, and daughter Nora Kate, born June 2023.
Jed and Katey launched in July 2024 that they’d twin ladies on the manner, and daughters Elsie Kate and Emma Kate were born Jan. 8, 2025.
Jeremiah Duggar (m. Hannah Wissmann)
Jeremiah, an licensed flight trainer, is married to Hannah Wissmann (Jana's husband Stephen's sister) and the 2 are fogeys to daughter Brynley, born December 2022, and Brielle, born February 2024.
They launched the arrival of their third daughter, Emery 'Emy' Jane Duggar, on Could additionally 18, 2025.
Jason Duggar (m. Maddie Grace)
No. 12 Jason Duggar was born on April 21, 2000.
In January 2017, the Everyday Mail reported that Jim Bob helped Jase buy a $33,000 fixer-greater in Prairie Grove, Ark., about half-hour far flung from the Duggar household dwelling, and he ended up starting his non-public construction firm.
He went Instagram respectable with girlfriend Maddie Grace in Could additionally 2024 and the 2 married the next October.
James Duggar
Charmed No. 13, James Duggar was born July 7, 2001.
No longer publicly courting a seemingly main other but, he's a doting uncle to dozens of nieces and nephews.
“He is the 'funcle' (stress-free uncle!) and your entire youthful boys around here look for as a lot as him and would prefer to be very most attention-grabbing like him!” mother Michelle wrote on his Nineteenth birthday in 2019. “James is able to assemble very most attention-grabbing about something he thinks up. Even as a teen, we would in discovering James 'fixing' various household appliances. He has consistently been one to rob issues apart, figure out how they work, and put them attend collectively—with just a few special modifications!
“This yr James labored tough to win his CDL, and he has turn out to be an professional at riding your entire immense trucks and heavy equipment! We can't wait to head attempting to search out what God has in store for him one day!”
Justin Duggar (m. Claire Spivey)
No. 14 Justin Duggar arrived on Nov. 15, 2002.
He went public with girlfriend Claire Spivey in September 2020. The 2 bought engaged the next November and married on Feb. 26, 2021.
Jackson Duggar
Here along with his immense sister Jill, Jim Bob and Michelle's 15th youngster Jackson Duggar was born Could additionally 23, 2004.
On his 16th birthday, mother Michelle praised Jackson's humorousness and infamous that she knew he couldn't wait to win his driver's license.
Johannah Duggar
Johannah Duggar was born Oct. 11, 2005, hence the genuine household special referred to as 16 Younger of us and Transferring In.
“This lady is so stress-free and outgoing, and she or he loves making new company,” Michelle wrote on her 16th youngster's 15th birthday in 2020. “Her youthful sisters fully cherish her and command she hung the moon, and I couldn't be extra grateful to God for picking me to be her Mother!”
Jennifer Duggar
Jennifer Duggar arrived on Aug. 2, 2007, then the newborn of the household.
Their TLC discover that premiered Sept. 29, 2008, was christened 17 Younger of us and Counting.
Now, OMG, she's a teen.
“Jennifer is unswerving, staunch… and stress-free!” Michelle wrote when her shrimp lady grew to turn out to be 13. “She is a fave with the nieces and nephews and is many times carrying regarded as one of them around because they don't desire her to place them down! Jennifer also has a various like for animals and is amazingly faithful to thrill in up her pets every single day! She now not too prolonged ago helped elevate a litter of seven shrimp bunnies!”
Jordyn-Grace Duggar
Here on the very most attention-grabbing, the penultimate Duggar youngster was born Dec. 18, 2008.
In 2019, her mother referred to as Jordyn-Grace an “outgoing lady who has never met a stranger,” with humorous that “is continually regarded as one of the brightest spots in our day.”
Josie Duggar
No. 19 Josie Duggar, here holding niece Meredith, was born on Dec. 10, 2009—three months untimely and weighing easiest 1 pound, 6 oz., and spent six months in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
“Josie is a ball of energy,” Michelle wrote on her child's 11th birthday in 2020. “From the time she wakes up in the morning till her head hits the pillow at evening, she now not often slows down!”
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