The Daily Populous Wednesday March 25th, 2026 evening edition
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Two days after the arrest of former 19 Kids 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 town in which 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 a release by the Tontitown Police Department, those charges were also issued against Joseph Duggar. Joseph Duggar's original arrest charges from Wednesday of last week were for lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor under 12 years old.

At the time, the Bay County Sheriff's Office stated those charges related to the alleged 2020 molestation of a then-9-year-old girl in Panama Beach, Fla.

"Investigators discovered the victim's father confronted [Joseph] Duggar about these incidents on March 17th, 2026," the statement reads. "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 an extradition hearing, which set in motion his transfer to Florida to face the child molestation charge.

According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office website, Kendra Duggar was released soon after her arrest on a $1,470 US bond. The Duggar family did not respond to a request for comment from CBC News on Monday.

The separate set of charges against both Joseph and Kendra Duggar come almost 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 a car dealership owned by Josh Duggar was used in 2019 to download images depicting the sexual abuse of children, including toddlers. He was sentenced in 2022 to 12½ years in prison. In 2024, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal against his conviction.

Josh and Joseph Duggar both starred in the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting. That show followed an Independent Baptist couple — Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar — as they raised their children, all with first names beginning with the letter J.

In this handout image provided by Fox News Channel, Megyn Kelly interviews Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar of the TLC program 19 Kids and Counting at their home in Tontitown, Ark. (Fox News Channel/Getty Images)

After their first release, 2004's 14 Children and Pregnant Again!, the often-retitled series of TLC shows that would become 19 Kids ran from 2008 to 2015, when it was cancelled following allegations that Josh Duggar had molested four of his sisters and a babysitter 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. A follow-up series, 2015's Counting On, was cancelled after Josh Duggar's arrest.

wellobviouslythatsso on March 25th, 2026 at 14:39 UTC »

This stuff is really worrying, but the most concerning aspect in my view is that these people keep getting caught because they’re so high profile and this stuff just leaks eventually.

But there are literally millions of people in this cult and there is a tremendous amount of this abuse going on that we will probably never hear about. The victims will never be helped. The predators will never be punished.

They’ll just carry on being holier than thou about everything whilst covering up horrific abuses.

KimJongFunk on March 25th, 2026 at 14:12 UTC »

Michelle Duggar made so many robo-calls fear mongering about trans people molesting children and it turns out that every accusation is in fact a confession

Lonely_Noyaaa on March 25th, 2026 at 14:10 UTC »

Kendra was always presented as the sweet wholesome one who married into the family young and just kind of went along with everything. At some point you have to ask what was actually going on inside that whole extended family structure that the cameras never showed.