FL - Second Duggar Son Joseph Garrett Duggar, 31, Arrested for Crimes Against a Minor, 18 March 2026

[AmicusVeritas]

I am not defending her or her spouse. But it appears that the law is applied unequally. After all, Jana Duggar was charged, and arrested based on a child wandering off. Heck, we have seen kids out wandering around, no one gets charged and booked.

Apply the law equally to everyone.

Respectfully, I don't think we can make the claim that the law is not being applied equally as it relates to the example you shared. We'd need to know a lot more about Kendra's current charges. As it stands now, the People article mentions a source and a spokesperson. Neither identity is revealed. And the "source" is the one who said it was because of the locks on doors. Who knows if that is true... but hey, MOO

 

[HockeyMomDiva]

I’ve seen it mentioned but I’m not clear if they seized any devices. I wouldn’t be one bit surprised if CSAM is discovered on Joseph’s.

 

[Teche]

My guess is many family members and religious followers are removing locks.

 

[Ruby_PA]

My guess is many family members and religious followers are removing locks.

I don't. I think they believe wholeheartedly that their practices are righteous and evil, secular outsiders don't understand their ways.
No one is going to see those locks unless they come into the home. People like that are careful about what outsiders see and don't see. IMO.

 

[HarmonyE.]

I am not defending her or her spouse. But it appears that the law is applied unequally. After all, Jana Duggar was charged, and arrested based on a child wandering off. Heck, we have seen kids out wandering around, no one gets charged and booked.

Apply the law equally to everyone.

It was a two year old who was found wandering near a highway.

Jana Duggar at first denied knowing who the child was and was uncooperative when first contacted. Play stupid games....

The Duggars are the ones who think they are above the law. They are still defending their pedo oldest son who assaulted at least 5 girls under their own roof. Multiple times. And they let him stay at home with those girls until he got married years later.

These people are scum. The total opposite of the wholesomeness they tried to portray on their TV show.

 

[airportwoman]

My guess is many family members and religious followers are removing locks.

(or, for that matter, adding them.)

 

[lohrtabitha]

On the topic of religion I will say only this: religion didn't abuse children. Evil men using religion to excuse their own actions and intimidate victims did.

I do believe the household the Duggar children were raised in played a direct role in both Josh and Joe becoming child sexual abusers. And like it or not, much of how those 19 children were raised is/was rooted in a very narrow patriarchal religious viewpoint. That doesn't mean all religion is bad or the bible is bad. It just means bad men did bad things. MOO

I 100 percent agree with you here. I also want to say that it was a lack of proper supervision by JIM Bob and his wife. Children were raising an d supervising each otherr children. In early childhood development we learn that there is body exploration which in essence is normal and not sexual.Like playing g doctor or house. However, this is where parents need to intervene and talk about body parts are private and no touching others IMO these talks may not have happened to all 19 children. So as the children's age progressed as we saw with Josh, this exploration turned sexual and he molested his sisters. His brother with a child. The Huge lack of supervision by the parents could have created these abusers. Who knows some of the sisters could have abused their siblings as well . Here is an article about the psychology: Normal Sexual Development vs. Sexually Harmful/Abusive Behaviors — Safe Kids Thrive - Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
MOO and in no way am I excusing the criminal and disturbing acts of these brothers. Im just trying to understand how things went to hell in this family.