{"id":255494,"date":"2026-04-07T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255494\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:30:25","slug":"joseph-and-kendra-dugger-may-sell-possessions-rent-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255494\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph and Kendra Dugger may sell possessions, rent house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kendra Duggar, wife of embattled reality star Joseph Duggar, appears to have moved the entire family out of their Arkansas home. Following her recent arrest<\/a> and that of her husband<\/a>, the spouses discussed how they\u2019d manage to pay for Joseph Duggar\u2019s bail bond and defense, and discussed renting out the home and selling some of their possessions. <\/p>\n

The couple reviewed options in a March 25 jailhouse phone call obtained by People<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Joseph Duggar, 31, was arrested March 18<\/a> in his home state and later extradited to Florida after authorities in Panama City Beach, Fla., interviewed a 14-year-old girl who accused him of molesting her when she was 9 and he was on vacation.<\/p>\n

The third oldest of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar\u2019s 10 sons \u2014 the family also includes nine daughters \u2014 was charged upon arrest with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person over 18. He was extradited to Florida on Tuesday and returned home after a $600,000 bond was posted. <\/p>\n

On the late-March phone call, the spouses brainstormed what they might sell, People reported, including some of their trailers, their ATV, a pressure washer and a wood splitter.<\/p>\n

She had moved everything out of their family home in preparation for renting the property, the outlet said; they saw renting as a way to provide a steady stream of income in Joseph\u2019s absence. It was unclear where she would be living if their home was rented out, and where the two are living now. <\/p>\n

Kendra reportedly asked Joseph to pray for her because she had been \u201creally, really fatigued\u201d after she moved all of their possessions over the two days that followed his arrest.<\/p>\n

He noted that she \u201calready had these health issues in the past\u201d and said he was surprised she lasted as long as she did, but People did not specify what those issues might be. She called it all \u201ca miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

The parents of four were subsequently arrested by Arkansas authorities March 20 after a home visit turned up evidence of possible child endangerment including locks on the outside of their children\u2019s bedroom doors. They were each charged with four misdemeanor counts<\/a> of endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Although her children could be heard in the background of a March 20 collect call obtained by People<\/a>, she referenced them being taken from her custody in another call two days later. <\/p>\n

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Joseph Duggar was arrested March 18 in Arkansas on charges out of Florida and booked on suspicion of molestation. Before he was extradited, he spoke with his wife via collect calls from jail.<\/p>\n

(Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Kendra was restricted from seeing her four children for a month, according to E! News<\/a>, which cited emails between Joseph and his sister-in-law Anna Duggar that were exchanged March 21 after Anna and Kendra had spoken. Anna is married to eldest son Josh Duggar, who is serving time in federal prison after a conviction related to child pornography.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was amazed with how clearly she thought, how focused and articulate she was in the middle of such heavy situations. She loves you deeply,\u201d Anna wrote to Joseph.<\/p>\n

Joseph replied, \u201cI am currently in solitary but they got me a bible so i have been able to stay encouraged. Thanks for the encouraging message! it means a lot!\u201d<\/p>\n

Kendra Duggar, who appeared in 79 episodes of the \u201c19 Kids and Counting\u201d spinoff \u201cCounting On\u201d from 2015 to 2021, was Kendra Caldwell when she married Joseph in 2017. The spouses welcomed their first two children on the spinoff, which was created after revelations that took down \u201c19 Kids\u201d: Josh Duggar said he had molested four of his sisters and a babysitter in the early 2000s. <\/p>\n

The statute of limitations on those offenses had run out, but then \u201cCounting On\u201d was axed in 2021 after Josh was arrested on suspicion of possession of child porn. He was convicted in December 2021<\/a> on two counts of possessing and receiving child pornography.<\/p>\n

Then earlier this year, the revelations about the younger Duggar brother came to light. On March 18, details of the allegations against Joseph Duggar came out of Florida\u2019s Bay County Sheriff\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n

\u201cDuggar repeatedly asked her to sit on his lap,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cAs the vacation continued, he also asked her to sit next to him on a couch and covered them with a blanket. During this time, Duggar manipulated the victim\u2019s underwear and grazed her genitals. Duggar would also continue to rub his hands on her thighs.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were multiple such incidents, authorities said. \u201cThe victim stated Duggar eventually apologized [to her] for his actions and the incidents stopped after the apology,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s father confronted Duggar about the incidents this year, investigators learned. On March 17, Duggar admitted to the father and to hometown detectives what he had done, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n

Joseph Duggar\u2019s next court date in the Florida case is April 20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kendra Duggar, wife of embattled reality star Joseph Duggar, appears to have moved the entire family out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31377,3409,553,1073,113131,113128,113129,48,52,51,47,50,49,2959,113132,346,592,25094,113130,2637,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-255494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-anna","9":"tag-child","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-home","12":"tag-jailhouse-phone-call","13":"tag-joseph-duggar","14":"tag-kendra","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-march","22":"tag-misdemeanor-count","23":"tag-office","24":"tag-people","25":"tag-possession","26":"tag-recent-arrest","27":"tag-sheriff","28":"tag-victim"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}