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Arkansas police arrest Kendra Duggar on child abuse charges
Arkansas police have arrested Kendra Duggar, the wife of reality TV personality Joseph Duggar, on misdemeanor child abuse charges, in the latest scandal to envelop the family featured on TLCs 19 Kids and Counting.
Kendra Duggar faces four counts each of endangering the welfare of a minor and second-degree false imprisonment, according to the Washington county sheriffs office in Arkansas. She has a hearing scheduled for Monday.
Kendra Duggars arrest came days after her husband, Joseph Duggar, was arrested on charges in Florida for lewd and lascivious behavior against a child under 12. He is accused of molesting a girl when she was nine years old during a family trip to Panama City Beach.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/arkansas-kendra-dugger-child-abuse-charges
Ah those good ole conservative values of abusing and molesting children. This happens so often that conservatism should be listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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(4,547 posts)But a religious fucking Idiot.
Initech
(108,656 posts)I knew Quiverfull was dangerous when I first heard about it. It's not at all shocking, but it is horrifying.
pfitz59
(12,654 posts)homeschooled suicide bombers. Warriors for Christ.
JI7
(93,556 posts)According to MAGA 4 years old Liam is a bigger threat than this.
buzzycrumbhunger
(1,917 posts)Honestly, a weirdly strict and controlling, performatively religious family having an incest secret isnt at all surprising. That it took this many years to come out is probably the bigger surprise.
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(16,369 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,570 posts)This arrest, the two pedo sons, and an adult daughter was arrested a few years ago for child neglect involving one of her brother's kids.
LisaM
(29,620 posts)I used to do a Duggar paradigm where if every Duggar kid had 19 kids and they each had 19 kids and so on, but it got too scary too fast.
None of this surprises me, of course.
I'm waiting for Charlie Kirk to tumble off his pedestal and it can't happen fast enough for me.