Joseph Duggar he revealed details about his life in prison at the Washington County Detention Facility in Arkansas during an interview with his wife. Kendra Duggar.
“I was spending a lot of time reading, uh, reading the Bible, they got me a Bible here,” Joseph, 31, told Kendra, 27, when she was called to the detention center. People on Friday, March 27. “I’m alone [confinement].”
Joseph added that he spends “23 hours a day” in an “8×10” area at the detention center.
“It’s a very small place, but I was able to study a lot actually, and rest some, but I don’t sleep well all night,” he continued.
Joseph told Kendra “that’s great to hear [her] voice,” and Kendra agreed that it was “nice” to hear from her husband.
The couple also discussed Joseph’s signature on the goods he checked when he was brought to the center for Kendra to pick up, according to. People.
Joseph called Kendra on the evening of March 20, hours after he was released from the same facility following his arrest on four counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment. (The couple has four children.)
Joseph was charged with the same charges, in addition to being charged with lewd and lascivious behavior including molestation of a victim under the age of 12 and lewd and lascivious behavior by a person 18 or older. He was arrested on March 18 after a 14-year-old woman accused him of multiple counts of sexual assault during a family vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida, in 2020.
Joseph appeared in court on March 20, where he waived his right to a trial and pleaded not guilty. He is currently awaiting extradition in Bay County, Florida.
When interviewed by an investigator from the Tontitown Police Department, the victim said Joseph asked her to “sit on his lap” several times, at which point he allegedly “would put his arms around the victim,” according to a Bay County Sheriff’s Office affidavit obtained by Us Weekly. During the holiday, Joseph is said to have asked the child to sit next to him on the sofa and covered their bodies with a blanket before inappropriately touching her on the thighs and outside of her underwear.
The victim said she felt “uncomfortable” and “confused” during the alleged incident.
More details about the investigation into Joseph Duggar have been revealed after the former reality star was accused of sexually abusing a minor. Authorities collected physical evidence and witness statements, according to a Bay County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) affidavit obtained by Us Weekly. Duggar, 31, was arrested in Tontitown, Arkansas, on March 18 as well […]
Joseph eventually “apologized for his actions” and the incidents stopped, according to the victim. When he was on the phone with the victim’s father, this 19 Children and counting the student allegedly admitted to “touching the victim over her clothes” and said “his intention was not innocent.”
Source only told Us that Kendra’s arrest had “nothing to do” with Joseph’s, but “one led to the other.”
“After being deceived by him, they do what they want if the children live there,” explained the source. “It is suspected that they had two rooms where the door lock was locked from the outside instead of from the inside. They tied him up and took his children with that, saying that it is proof that he is locking up his children improperly.”
Before her release, Kendra was ordered to have “no contact” with any of her “unnamed victims.” He should not reach them “by phone (including text), personally, by computer or by other people.” If he violates these conditions, he may face a “separate crime resulting in [her] arrest and/or bond revocation” and “subject to imprisonment pending trial.”
Kendra is required to attend a hearing in Elm Springs and Tontitown District Court on April 29 at 2 pm local time.
