Duggar family member arrested, being extradited to Bay County, BCSO says

[AStern]

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Joseph Garrett Duggar arrested for Lewd and Lascivious Behavior, involving unlawful sexual activity with a minor

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Bay County Sheriff’s Office said Joseph Garrett Duggar, 31, who appeared on the TV show “19 Kids and Counting,” was arrested Wednesday for crimes against a minor that allegedly occurred in Panama City Beach.

BCSO said Duggar has been charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, including molestation of a victim younger than 12, and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 or older.

We’re told Bay County investigators were contacted Wednesday by a Tontitown police detective about a report of past sexual abuse. The 14-year-old victim, during a forensic interview, disclosed what happened with Duggar during a family vacation in Panama City Beach when she was 9, BCSO says.

According to the investigation, the events happened when the family was staying at a home on Danny Drive.

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https://www.wjhg.com/2026/03/18/duggar-family-member-arrested-being-extradited-bay-county-bcso-says/

[Dave Bowman]

1. A perfectly normal maga family.

[RockRaven]

2. As someone who never followed those freaks, am I to understand this is the second

pedo who has been caught from that family?

[PatSeg]

17. I didn't follow them either

There was an incident a while back, but I don't know if it was this guy or another family member. Nice family.


Edit to add: Apparently there was another Duggar who was convicted on similar charges. See comment #4.

[mwmisses4289]

30. seems like it.

If he is thirty one now, he probably would have been one of the younger boys during the shows run (2008-2015). So is the child he molested one of the daughters of one of his older siblings? (Josh, iirc, was already 16 or seventeen when the show began its run).
Makes you wonder if dear old dad may also have been pedo.

[JI7]

33. This happened around 2020 . He was late 20s or early 30s and married with kids already by then

And his brother was already in prison then also .

[mwmisses4289]

36. Ah, thank you. the article wasn't very clear when it happened, I had the impression this had happened last year.

[obamanut2012]

47. Yes, and he committed these specific crimes after the crimes his HIS BROTHER JOSH came to light

[durablend]

3. "crimes against a minor"

I'm shocked

[Ms. Toad]

4. 2 down, 17 to go?

from 2022: https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-investigation-leads-12-year-sentence-former-reality-television-personality

FAYETTEVILLE – A Springdale man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison without the possibility of parole on one count of receiving child sex abuse material following an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Fayetteville.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Joshua James Duggar, 34, repeatedly downloaded and viewed images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, including images of prepubescent children and depictions of sadistic abuse. In addition to the 151-month sentence, Duggar must serve 20 years supervised release, register as a sex offender, and pay $50,000 in fines.

[Wiz Imp]

10. 19 kids, 11 sons and 8 daughters

Joshua, the oldest at 38 is currently in prison until at least 2032. Joseph is the 3rd oldest at 31. The second oldest boy is John-David at 36. He has apparently avoided getting into trouble so far, but you have to wonder about him.

Josh molested at least 4 of his sisters. I'm willing to believe the girls were just victims, but I'd be very suspicious of the rest of the brothers. The youngest son is now 18 and the youngest daughter 17.

[Scrivener7]

6. Maga family values.

[malaise]

13. Aren't they close family friends with the

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Fuckabees?


Haha down memory lane
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mike-huckabee-voices-support-honest-open-duggars-n363366

Mike Huckabee Voices Support For 'Honest And Open' Duggar Family

Former Arkansas governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Friday he supports reality TV family the Duggars amid allegations that their oldest child molested underage girls as a teenager.

"Good people make mistakes and do regrettable and even disgusting things," Huckabee said in a statement about the Duggars, the stars of the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting," which follows their lives as a large, conservative, evangelical Christian family.

"No one needs to defend Josh's actions as a teenager, but the fact that he confessed his sins to those he harmed, sought help, and has gone forward to live a responsible and circumspect life as an adult is testament to his family's authenticity and humility," Huckabee said.

[mcar]

7. Another one?

Jaysus, this family is pedophile central.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

8. This one has at least four kids of his own....

[LisaL]

15. The oldest son, the one who is currently in prison,

also has a bunch of kids.

[GopherGal]

11. my thoughts upon reading "Duggar family member arrested"

1) Duggar? Gotta be for sex crimes
2) Again?
3) Has he been named to TSF's cabinet yet?
4) Maybe not just sex crimes, it could be fraud, too. These are Republicans we're talking about.

[LisaL]

12. That's some superior child rearing right there.

Weren't their parents expecting superior results from the way they raised their 19 kids?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

19. Girls forced to raise each baby mom produced, sons taught they were superior gender

Mom gazing at dad as if he were a god. Corporal punishment.

[colorado_ufo]

22. That's right.

No physical way for one woman to tend to that many children, laundry, cooking, dishes, homework help, parent-teacher conferences, sports practices, school events, even just grocery shopping! No way she could even supervise them all or monitor their behavior.

[LisaL]

24. What parent teacher conferences? School events? Sports?

They were homeschooled.

[colorado_ufo]

41. I was talking about the situation in general,

not that family specifically. I was highlighting the difference between a family with that many children and a smaller family with the personal interaction of the parents, if they were good parents.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

28. At age 6 months, each baby was assigned to a girl. The crobs were in the big bedrrom where all the girls slept

[meadowlander]

34. The girls were trained to shout "Nikes" if they were walking past a girl or woman wearing a sleeveless shirt

and all the boys had to look at their shoes as they walked past to avoid temptation.

You know, just normal stuff.

Also they all "side hug" to avoid the risk of genitals touching from a normal hug.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

48. Omg..performative religion

[Skittles]

14. "admitted his actions to the victim's father"

if that was my dad, that would have been the end of Mr. Duggar

[JI7]

32. When the father found out about his oldest son abusing his sister's he put a lock on the girl's bedroom

[AllaN01Bear]

16. typical self centered so and so.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

18. Whoa!! so raising sons in a household where women are 2nd class...

Produces pedos??

[evolves]

20. Serious repression

going on here.

[Enter stage left]

21. STILL NOT A DRAG QUEEN!

[maspaha]

29. Came to say the same!

…not trans or gay either

[Kingofalldems]

23. Looks like big friends with Huckabee:

Link to tweet

[malaise]

25. Yes indeed

The rapture lovers 😀

[mwmisses4289]

37. Well, dad Jim something, is or was big in Arkansas politics.

I seem to remember the show started losing viewers as it came out that the show was basically a grift for the duggars.

[niyad]

26. Which of the sons were charged with, or accused of, incest?

[AStern]

27. Josh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Duggar

Two of the daughters got out of there.

[BannonsLiver]

31. At the risk of staring the obvious but this seems like potentially learned behavior.

Either he saw his brother diddling the sisters or he was abused by one of the siblings or the parents.

[meadowlander]

35. Or he was raised in a cult that obsessed about sex as a taboo

and it gave him and probably most of the other boys in that family a fucked up attitude to sex, consent and women in general.

[mwmisses4289]

38. Yeah, they followed some preacher guy who called himself

goddard or godhardt or something like that. He was one freaky, weird dude.

[meadowlander]

42. Bill Gothard who resigned facing abuse allegations

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/01/06/new-charges-allege-religious-leader-who-has-ties-to-the-duggars-sexually-abused-women/

[druidity33]

46. He's still kicking...

and was never charged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gothard

[BannonsLiver]

39. Very possible. However, if true it would absolutely not preclude what I wrote from happening, either.

Both could be true, obviously.

[meadowlander]

43. Yes, of course. But I don't think this is a phenomenon specific to this family.

I imagine it's pretty rife in the Quiverful movement and has direct ties to what they believe and how they raise their kids.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

50. That is possible

[videohead5]

40. They smothered the kids

They could not do anything. It was an extreme way to raise kids. No TV and no nothing. It was not just teaching them right from wrong. It was mentally suppressing.

[meadowlander]

44. They weren't allowed to dance because it was lascivious.

When they went swimming the girls had to wear essentially a wetsuit that went to their wrists and ankles with a baggy waterproof dress over it to hide any curves.

The risks of sex permeated every aspect of everything they did.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

45. This family has many issues

Sorry folks god does not in any way want you to have 20 kids and this family also used itś fame to further the secret terrible behavior of this family.

These kids need some serious counseling

The parents should rot in hell, they knew and covered up some serious stuff.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

49. Disgusting but not surprising