A jail phone call between Kendra Duggar and Joseph Duggar offered more insight into their kids’ whereabouts after their parents were arrested on separate charges.
“I feel Friday has probably been my hardest day, but that’s crazy to say because Wednesday was crazy hard,” Kendra, 27, told Joseph, 31, during a March 24 phone call from the Washington County Detention Facility, in keeping with multiple outlets.
Friday referred to the day Kendra was arrested on March 20, which was two days after Joseph was taken into custody. While talking to her husband, Kendra made it clear that their children are her predominant priority.
“But it surely’s identical to, once you then take my babies from me, they were who I used to be just going to pour my life into,” Kendra, who shares 4 children with Joseph, told her husband before he cut her off to say the kids are her “purpose right away.”
In a past phone call, Kendra mentioned that she heard their kids are “doing good.”
“I’m fighting for the youngsters, and so they’re my No. 1 priority right away,” she added. “I just want you to know, through all of this, whatever happens, that’s who’s coming first. Then we’ll just see where the remainder of it leads us and check out to place the pieces together.”
Joseph agreed that Kendra “ought to be fighting for them essentially the most.” While Joseph has been released from custody after being extradited to Florida on Tuesday, March 31, he will not be allowed any contact along with his kids as he awaits his trial.
The previous reality star was arrested last month on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior involving molestation of a victim lower than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by an individual 18 years or older. Joseph was charged with an extra 4 counts of endangering the welfare of a minor within the second degree and 4 counts of false imprisonment within the second degree.
Based on a press release from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, investigators were contacted by a detective from the Tontitown Police Department in Arkansas a few report of past sexual abuse. An alleged 14-year-old victim recalled several alleged incidents from 2020 involving Joseph when she was 9 years old.
After being moved from Arkansas to Florida, Joseph entered a written plea of not guilty and he also requested a jury trial.
Joseph Duggar and his wife, Kendra Duggar, welcomed 4 kids before he was arrested in 2026. Joseph was featured on TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting alongside his large family, including parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. The show’s spinoff, Counting On, later captured him forming a reference to Kendra once they began courting in 2017. […]
The State Attorney’s Office prosecutor argued during an arraignment in Bay County, Florida, on Tuesday that the allegations are “a serious charge,” adding, “We ask there be a no-contact [policy] in place with the victim, in addition to no contact with any minors.”
The prosecutor continued: “While he doesn’t have a criminal history and no ties to the community … he was on vacation and stayed here a brief time period. … We ask for a considerable bond.”
The judge ultimately ordered that Joseph have “no contact with the alleged victim” and “no unsupervised contact with any minors under the age of 18.” His bond was set at $600,000 and he has since returned to Arkansas.
Kendra, meanwhile, was arrested on charges of endangering the welfare of a minor on March 20 and subsequently released on a $1,470 bond. A source exclusively told Us Weekly that Kendra’s arrest had “nothing to do” along with her husband’s case in Florida.
“After his charge, they robotically do a house study if minors live there,” the source shared. “Apparently, that they had two rooms where the lock of the doorknob was on the skin as an alternative of inside. They arrested her and took her kids for that, saying it’s evidence that she wrongly detains her kids.”
When you or someone you realize is experiencing child abuse, call or text Child Help Hotline at 1-800-422-4453.