Kendra Duggar is reassuring her husband Joseph Duggar after his arrest.<\/p>\n
On\u00a0Wednesday<\/a>, Mar. 18,\u00a0Joseph was arrested and charged<\/a>\u00a0for Lewd and Lascivious Behavior, involving unlawful sexual activity with a minor.\u00a0Two days later, Joseph and Kendra\u00a0were\u00a0hit with additional child endangerment charges<\/a>\u2014unrelated to Joseph’s initial case.<\/p>\n In audio from a jail call obtained by TMZ<\/a>, Kendra, 27, told Joseph, 31, that the Duggar family still loves him despite their “disappointment” over his arrest.<\/p>\n “Just that know everybody loves you, even if they’re disappointed,” Kendra said, to which her husband replied, “I understand the disappointment.”<\/p>\n “Just understand that they love you too,” Kendra added.<\/p>\n “Oh yeah, absolutely I feel that. I’m not upset or anything like that,” Joseph responded.<\/p>\n Kendra then told her husband all they can do is “take it one day at a time” as their cases move through court.<\/p>\n RELATED: Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar Break Silence After Son Joseph\u2019s Arrest for Child Molestation<\/a><\/p>\n Joseph had his first court appearance in Florida for the child molestation charges on Tuesday, Mar. 31, and was released after posting a $600,000 bond.<\/p>\n Conditions of his release included having no contact with the alleged victim and no unsupervised contact with any minors under 18. The judge set Joseph’s next court date for April 20 at 9 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n Joseph previously entered a written plea of not guilty\u00a0on\u00a0Sunday<\/a>, Mar. 29 and requested a jury trial.<\/p>\n Joseph and Kendra both have court dates related to the child endangerment charges, which were filed in Arkansas, on April 29.<\/p>\n If you suspect child abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to\u00a0www.childhelp.org.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Kendra Duggar Ordered Not to Contact Her Alleged Victims After Arrest<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Mar 31, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kendra Duggar is reassuring her husband Joseph Duggar after his arrest. On\u00a0Wednesday, Mar. 18,\u00a0Joseph was arrested and charged\u00a0for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[189020,90796,156,180880,100671,185826,189021,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-358019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-child-endangerment-charges","9":"tag-duggar-family","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-joseph-duggar","12":"tag-kendra","13":"tag-kendra-duggar","14":"tag-lewd-and-lascivious-behavior","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}