{"id":537406,"date":"2026-03-21T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537406\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:36:09","slug":"kendra-duggar-wife-of-joseph-duggar-charged-with-child-endangerment-after-husbands-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537406\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendra Duggar, wife of Joseph Duggar, charged with child endangerment after husband&#8217;s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Duggar was arrested for misdemeanor charges including endangering the welfare of a child and false imprisonment, according to online records. The charges come a day after her husband Joseph Duggar was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/joseph-duggar-19-kids-and-counting-arrest-child-abuse-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charged<\/a>\u00a0with molestation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Online records from the Arkansas Washington County sheriff&#8217;s office show Duggar, 27, was taken into custody around 4:56 p.m. local time Friday. Online records show she was released a little more than an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Duggar, 31, was arrested in Tontitown, Arkansas on Thursday. He was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under 12 years old, according to an arrest affidavit from the Bay County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Panama City, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 14-year-old girl told law enforcement that Duggar had molested her several times during a family trip to Panama City Beach when she was 9, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2602158.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Joseph Duggar of \" kids=\"\" and=\"\" counting=\"\" appears=\"\" in=\"\" court=\"\" on=\"\" child=\"\" abuse=\"\" charge=\"\" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Joseph Duggar following his arrest on child abuse charges on March 18, 2026,\u00a0 in Tontitown, Arkansas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Washington County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>His arrest comes almost five years after his older brother Josh\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/josh-duggar-trial-jury-guilty-federal-charges\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was convicted<\/a>\u00a0of downloading child sexual abuse images. The brothers and their family starred in the TLC show &#8220;19 Kids and Counting,&#8221; which was canceled after Josh Duggar&#8217;s arrest. Josh Duggar was also alleged to have molested four of his sisters and a babysitter years earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family of sister Jill Duggar Dillard released a statement after Joseph Duggar&#8217;s arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly condemn abuse,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;We support the rule of law and hope that justice will be achieved. Our hearts go out to the innocent juvenile victim of this unspeakable crime and her family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kendra Duggar was arrested for misdemeanor charges including endangering the welfare of a child and false imprisonment, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8897,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-537406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-arkansas","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}