Josh Duggar Breaks Silence on Joseph Duggar's Arrest Amid Detention heart Sentence
After Joseph Duggar become arrested March 18 on baby molestation charges, his older brother Josh Duggar—at this time in penal complex for baby pornography—reacted to the arrest.
Dispute material warning: This yarn discusses baby sexual abuse.
Josh Duggar is talking out.
Two days after the Duggar family's Seventh oldest baby Joseph Duggar become arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct—molestation of a victim lower than 12 years mature—and lewd and lascivious conduct performed by a person 18 years or older, his older brother addressed the charges.
“Josh understands the stigma of being accused,” an attorney for Josh——at this time in penal complex for baby pornography—suggested the Every single day Mail March 20. Adding that Josh and Joseph are “no longer in frequent verbal replace,” the attorney well-known Josh “hopes and prays for his brother's well being in this advanced time.”
For the time being, Joseph—who shares four teenagers with wife Kendra Caldwell—awaits extradition to Florida, where he’s accused of getting molested a 9-365 days-mature girl all the plan in which thru a 2020 skedaddle to Panama Metropolis Sea breeze, essentially based on a pair of legislation enforcement departments.
In response to a March 18 statement from the local Bay County Sheriff’s Articulate of job, the division become notified by police in Tontitown, Arkansas—where Joseph become arrested—that the victim, now 14, introduced allegations of molestation against Joseph.
“The victim reported Duggar many cases requested her to sit down on his lap,” the statement study. “Because the skedaddle persevered, he also requested her to sit down next to him on a sofa and lined them with a blanket. For the length of this time, Duggar manipulated the victim’s undies and grazed her genitals. Duggar would also proceed to rub his hands on her thighs.”
In response to the division, Joseph previously apologized for the incidents, after which they stopped happening. In some unspecified time in the future before his arrest, per the statement, Joseph become confronted by the victim’s father all by which he “admitted his actions” to both the guardian and to Tontitown detectives.
E! News previously reached out to the Duggar family for comment but did no longer hear relief at the time.
The arrest of the 31-365 days-mature comes factual below four years after Josh become sentenced to 12 years in penal complex after being stumbled on responsible of receiving baby intercourse abuse area cloth.
In response to a statement from Articulate of foundation Safety Investigations Fayetteville at the time, Josh “many cases downloaded and viewed images and movies depicting the sexual abuse of teenagers, alongside with images of prepubescent teenagers and depictions of sadistic abuse.”
As well as to his 12-365 days penal complex sentence, the dad of seven become ordered to pay $50,000 in fines, register as a intercourse perpetrator and must in the end lend a hand Two decades of supervised liberate.
For extra perception into the Duggar family and its 19 teenagers, study on.
Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar
The oldsters of 19 and grandparents of over three dozen little ones began out as excessive college sweethearts.
Michelle has recalled being “saved” at 15. Then, one evening, Jim Bob become making dwelling outreach visits on behalf of his Baptist church and he ended up knocking on the Ruark family's door after his friend suggested him that “this girl from college that factual got 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 very well be each other's non secular leaders—though curiously their first meeting wasn't as memorable for Michelle. A 365 days later, she utilized for a job at the frozen yogurt shop owned by Jim Bob's oldsters. “You came to the counter where I become standing by the money register and launched your self,” 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 had been insecure but very sweet! I of course don't endure in mind mighty about that dialog, other than that you finally mustered up the braveness to quiz me if I would possibly perchance presumably mosey to your junior-senior dinner birthday celebration with you!”
She attended the dinner with him at Shiloh Christian, but it undoubtedly become when they frolicked later on discussing the Bible for hours at her oldsters' dwelling that she knew.”From there, we expect about our hearts had been knit collectively,” Michelle has said. “We graduated excessive college in Can even of 1984 and had been married in July. I become 17 and Jim Bob become 19.”
40 Years Later…
The couple dedicated themselves to God and each other for the long roam.
Jim Bob is a primitive advise legislator, having served within the Arkansas Dwelling of Representatives for the sixth district from 1999 except 2002, all by which he become vice chair of the Dwelling of Corrections and Criminal Law Subcommittee. A roam for U.S. Senate in 2002 ended within the main, as did a pronounce in 2006 to change into the Republican nominee for Arkansas Articulate Senate District 35.
He and Michelle, who’re both licensed realtors, accept as true with been energetic in conservative causes—an assert of their daily life that won them and 19 Kids and Counting (which premiered in 2008 as 17 Kids and Counting) both proud supporters and fierce critics.
As of October 2024, they had been grandparents of 33 with three on the strategy.
Josh Duggar (m. Anna Keller)
Eldest Duggar baby Josh Duggar become born March 3, 1988. He too grew to change into a conservative activist, campaigning for the Family Study Council.
He stepped down after mature police data surfaced in 2015 revealing that he had been accused of molesting numerous women, alongside with his sisters Jessa Duggar and Jill Duggar, when he become a teen. Jessa defended her brother in a sit-down with Fox News that June, insisting that the worst names folks had been calling Josh had been “so overboard and a lie, of course. I suggest folks salvage angry at me for asserting that, but I will explain this attributable to I become one in every of the victims.”
His wife Anna Duggar—whom he married in a Sept. 26, 2008, ceremony featured on 19 Kids and Counting—also stuck by him, alongside with after he admitted to being unfaithful.
When he checked into a medication heart in 2016, his oldsters referred to because it “a a truly grand first step in convalescing and healing.”
Of us of three—daughter Mackynzie (Oct. 8, 2009) and sons Michael (June 15, 2011) and Marcus (June 2, 2013)—when the scandal broke, Anna gave beginning to their fourth baby, Meredith, on July 16, 2015, the same day TLC canceled 19 Kids. Their fifth baby, son Mason Garett, become born Sept. 12, 2017, daughter Maryella Hope arrived Nov. 27, 2019 and little one No. 7, Madyson Lily, become born Oct. 23, 2021.
In a federal indictment filed in April 2021, Josh become charged with a depend apiece of receipt and possession of baby pornography. He pleaded no longer responsible on both counts. In 2022, Josh become stumbled on responsible of both (however the possession charge become vacated by the mediate) and sentenced to 12 and a half of years in penal complex.
John-David Duggar and Jana Duggar
Rapidly after Josh become born, Michelle got pregnant again, but suffered a miscarriage. While she and Jim Bob had been light grieving that loss and praying for steering, they stumbled on out that twins had been on the strategy.
“We felt it become a double blessing,” she suggested Must Know. “God become encouraging our hearts. We're light discovering out. It's of course so extraordinary, attributable to I breastfeed my babies, but my teenagers are so finish collectively. I of course accept as true with a little bit one and then eight months later I'm ready for. Factual one more extraordinary thing the Lord has considered match to enact with our area.”
John-David Duggar and his twin sister Jana Duggar had been born on Jan. 12, 1990.
John-David Duggar (m. Abbie-Grace Burnett)
After a whirlwind courtship (they did know of each other for numerous years, before meeting at a church match in Abbie's dwelling advise of Oklahoma) and a immediate 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 had been little we've been requested if we now accept as true with that 'twin thing'. You realize, the object where you of course feel what the replacement one is feeling or know what the replacement one is thinking…Effectively, John, I've repeatedly answered that with a no—but now I will honestly explain that the day little Gracie become born I felt every little bit of happiness that you did, so I wager it would possibly perchance probably be true!”
Jana persevered, “It's so sweet staring at you & Abbie as oldsters! You're naturals! And the same qualities that accept as true with made you a pleasing brother would possibly even produce you an extraordinary dad.”
Abbie and John-David welcomed their third baby, a little bit one girl, in February 2026.
Jana Duggar (m. Stephen Wissmann)
Jana watched 11 of her 18 brothers and sisters salvage married before she stumbled on love with Stephen Wissmann—whose sister Hannah Wissmann is married to the TLC alum's brother Jeremiah—but despite some admitted frustrations, she maintained it become all part of God's belief.
“I haven't repeatedly understood what the larger picture is, but I do know that God knows what’s simplest for all of us. And so for me, it's getting married later,” Jana suggested Of us ahead of her Aug. 15, 2024, marriage ceremony. “Every of our stories can be written in a different way. If we had been your entire true same, it would be a roam of the mill existence.”
On Dec. 30, 2025, the couple welcomed their first baby, son Archie Gerald Wissmann.
Jill Duggar (m. Derick Dillard)
Jill (Duggar) Dillard become born on Can even 17, 1991. In a love yarn paying homage to her oldsters', Jill first met Derick (who grew up about 45 minutes away) on Christmas 2011 when he stopped by the Duggar family abode while out caroling alongside with his church community.
Jim Bob played matchmaker, and Jill and Derick hit it off, rising nearer over e mail and Skype. Father and daughter went to look at with Derick in Nepal that November and Jill and Derick persevered to tumble for each other. In February 2014, Derick requested Jim Bob for his daughter's hand in marriage, and they tied the knot on June 21, 2014. They are oldsters to about a 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 pregnancy loss while ready for her and Derick's first little one girl.
Jill and Derick mirrored on the controversies and non secular beliefs surrounding her family within the Amazon Prime Video documentary Gleaming Relaxed Of us: Duggar Family Secrets and tactics, which premiered in June 2023.
Jessa Duggar (m. Ben Seewald)
Jim Bob and Michelle's fifth baby, Jessa Duggar, become born Nov. 4, 1992.
Jessa met Ben thru church and he began courting her in 2013—the mature-customary plan to romance coming as a value-new conception to heaps of viewers. The kids never talked about their romances pre-engagement, so Jim Bob outlined to Of us, “Relationship is getting to clutch each other in a community setting, both households spending time collectively and the couple setting targets collectively to resolve if they are supposed to marry. With courting, a pair will ceaselessly pair off by myself and that infrequently ends in a extra bodily relationship.”
Ben requested for Jessa's hand and then proposed in August 2014—sealing the deal by conserving her hand for the first time. They married on Nov. 1, 2014. Jessa become pregnant with their first baby when 19 Kids and Counting become canceled and TLC therefore aired a particular about sexual abuse, that comprises Jill and Jessa, to further educate viewers on the topic. The sisters would halt up the celebrities of their very comprise remark, Jill and Jessa: Counting On, that wintry climate; the remark then developed to change into Counting On, that comprises other Duggar siblings to boot.
In the period in-between, Jessa and Ben welcomed son Spurgeon on Nov. 5, 2015, son Henry on Feb. 6, 2017, daughter Ivy Jane on Can even 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 beginning to son George in December 2023.
In August 2025, Jessa launched the beginning of son Edward.
Jinger Duggar (m. Jeremy Vuolo)
The sixth Duggar baby, Jinger Vuolo, become 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 factual are trying no longer overlapping milestones while you're one in every of 19), and had been promptly the topic of pregnancy rumors.
“The set we mediate ourselves in a 365 days is perchance factual settled down, light doing ministry right here in Laredo, and factual searching for to lend a hand the Lord, on the replacement hand, we can,” Jinger said on a June 2017 episode of Counting On.
Their daughter Felicity become born July 19, 2018. In Can even of that 365 days, they printed that Jinger become pregnant again—and that she had suffered a miscarriage the old tumble. In November 2020, they welcomed daughter Evangeline Jo.
Son Finnegan Charles become born March 29, 2025.
Joseph Duggar (m. Kendra Caldwell)
No. 7 Joseph Duggar become born on Jan. 20, 1995. Taking abet of the romantic setting, Joseph proposed to Kendra (whom he met thru church) at his sister Pleasure-Anna's marriage ceremony in Can even 2017 after factual about a months of courting.
“I become indubitably apprehensive going into it, but I wasn't timid that she become going to instruct no, attributable to she has said, 'I'm factual ready on you!'” Joseph suggested Of us after popping the query. Added Kendra, “I'm so happy and so frightened. There's so many words I are making an strive to instruct, but factual frightened.”
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 become arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct intelligent unlawful sexual process with a minor for allegedly molesting a then-9-365 days-mature girl in 2020.
Two days later, Kendra become arrested for endangering the welfare of a minor and counterfeit imprisonment.
Josiah Duggar (m. Lauren Swanson)
Eighth in line, Josiah Duggar become born on Aug. 28, 1996.
Factual about a months after his courtship with Lauren went public, the couple launched their engagement in March 2018. “The region where I proposed to Lauren is the true region where her oldsters had been engaged,” he said in a statement. “There's loads of family history on this property making it a particular region for Lauren.”
Her future mother-in-legislation, Michelle, said in a video posted on the family's blog, “We cope with Lauren, she is this kind of vital girl.” Jessa and Ben also equipped congratulations, and chocolate formed cope with x's and o's. “Stunning obvious that y'all are making an strive to build your first kiss to your marriage ceremony day, but whenever you strategy over right here we'll give you…” She held up the sweet comfort prize.
A old courtship with Marjorie Jackson didn't figure out and they went their separate suggestions within the summer of 2015. “Marjorie and I had a factual time collectively,” Josiah recalled to Of us in March 2016. “We had been factual making an strive to spend God's lead on everything. She didn't of course feel that it become the coolest timing then, so we referred to because it quits for a little.”
He and Lauren tied the knot June 30, 2018, telling Of us their marriage ceremony day become “completely supreme.” They welcomed daughter Bella Milagro on Nov. 8, 2019—the name translating to “miracle little one,” after the couple printed Lauren had suffered a miscarriage in October 2018. They welcomed one more daughter, Daisy, in 2022, and a son named Ezra in Can even 2023.
Pleasure-Anna Duggar (m. Austin Forsyth)
Ninth sibling Pleasure-Anna Duggar become born Oct. 28, 1997.
She knew Austin Forsyth for 15 years as a friend before he began courting her—after which they didn't ruin any time. He proposed in February 2017 and they married on Can even 26, 2017, at Immoral Church in Rogers, Ark. (the bridal ceremony where 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 Can even 17, 2023.
Jedidiah Duggar and Jeremiah Duggar
Jim Bob and Michelle's 2nd set of twins, Jed Duggar and Jeremiah Duggar, had been born on Dec. 30, 1998.
Jedidiah Duggar (m. Katey Nakatsu)
Jed married Katey Nakatsu after one 365 days of courting in April 2021. They are oldsters to son Truett, born Can even 2022, and daughter Nora Kate, born June 2023.
Jed and Katey launched in July 2024 that they’d twin women on the strategy, and daughters Elsie Kate and Emma Kate had been born Jan. 8, 2025.
Jeremiah Duggar (m. Hannah Wissmann)
Jeremiah, an licensed flight instructor, is married to Hannah Wissmann (Jana's husband Stephen's sister) and the 2 are oldsters to daughter Brynley, born December 2022, and Brielle, born February 2024.
They launched the appearance of their third daughter, Emery 'Emy' Jane Duggar, on Can even 18, 2025.
Jason Duggar (m. Maddie Grace)
No. 12 Jason Duggar become born on April 21, 2000.
In January 2017, the Every single day Mail reported that Jim Bob helped Jase buy a $33,000 fixer-upper in Prairie Grove, Ark., about Half-hour away from the Duggar family abode, and he ended up starting his comprise construction company.
He went Instagram official with girlfriend Maddie Grace in Can even 2024 and the 2 married the next October.
James Duggar
Charmed No. 13, James Duggar become born July 7, 2001.
Not publicly courting a doable most important other yet, he's a doting uncle to dozens of nieces and nephews.
“He is the 'funcle' (fun uncle!) and your entire youthful boys around right here perceive as a lot as him and are making an strive to be factual cope with him!” mom Michelle wrote on his nineteenth birthday in 2019. “James is ready to enact factual about the relaxation he thinks up. At the same time as a baby, we would procure James 'fixing' varied family appliances. He has repeatedly been one to cope with finish issues apart, resolve out how they work, and set them relief collectively—with about a particular modifications!
“This 365 days James labored demanding to salvage his CDL, and he has change into an professional at using your entire mountainous autos and heavy machinery! We are succesful of't wait to perceive what God has in retailer for him within the long roam!”
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 two got engaged the next November and married on Feb. 26, 2021.
Jackson Duggar
Here alongside with his mountainous sister Jill, Jim Bob and Michelle's 15th baby Jackson Duggar become born Can even 23, 2004.
On his 16th birthday, mom Michelle praised Jackson's sense of humor and well-known that she knew he couldn't wait to salvage his driver's license.
Johannah Duggar
Johannah Duggar become born Oct. 11, 2005, hence the fresh family particular referred to as 16 Kids and Moving In.
“This girl is so fun and outgoing, and she loves making new guests,” Michelle wrote on her 16th baby's 15th birthday in 2020. “Her youthful sisters completely deal alongside with her and think she hung the moon, and I couldn't be extra grateful to God for deciding on me to be her Mother!”
Jennifer Duggar
Jennifer Duggar arrived on Aug. 2, 2007, then the little one in every of the family.
Their TLC remark that premiered Sept. 29, 2008, become christened 17 Kids and Counting.
Now, OMG, she's a teen.
“Jennifer is trusty, accurate… and fun!” Michelle wrote when her little girl grew to change into 13. “She is a fave with the nieces and nephews and is ceaselessly carrying one in every of them around attributable to they don't prefer her to set them down! Jennifer also has a particular love for animals and is amazingly faithful to cope with finish care of her pets on on daily basis basis! She recently helped elevate a litter of 7 little bunnies!”
Jordyn-Grace Duggar
Here on the coolest, the penultimate Duggar baby become born Dec. 18, 2008.
In 2019, her mom referred to as Jordyn-Grace an “outgoing girl who has never met a stranger,” with comic that “is repeatedly one in every of the brightest spots in our day.”
Josie Duggar
No. 19 Josie Duggar, right here conserving niece Meredith, become born on Dec. 10, 2009—three months untimely and weighing only one pound, 6 oz, and spent six months within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
“Josie is a ball of energy,” Michelle wrote on her little one's 11th birthday in 2020. “From the time she wakes up within the morning except her head hits the pillow at evening, she hardly slows down!”
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