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Joseph Duggar was denied unsupervised visitation with his children in a recent ruling, but he is allowed supervised visits.
Duggar has been barred from having unsupervised contact with any child under 18.
The former reality TV star was arrested on child molestation charges in March.
A judge has denied Joseph Duggar’s request for unsupervised visits with his children amid Duggar’s ongoing child molestation case in Florida.
The 19 Kids and Counting alum appeared virtually in court on Tuesday for a hearing on two motions to amend no-contact orders, including one order that barred Duggar from having unsupervised contact with any child under 18. He and his wife, Kendra, share four children who fall under that description.
Duggar, 31, was arrested on child molestation charges in March by the Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. Duggar is accused of repeatedly asking a girl to sit on his lap during a 2020 family vacation in Panama City and allegedly “[grazing] her genitals.” He has pleaded not guilty.
Joseph Duggar attends virtual court hearing for Florida case on Tuesday, June 16
Credit: Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida/YouTube
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According to court documents reviewed by Entertainment Weekly, Bay County Judge Brantley Clark ruled that Duggar may visit his children as long as visits were supervised, despite Duggar’s legal team arguing his children are not alleged victims in his ongoing Florida case.
Duggar and his wife, Kendra, both face charges for an unrelated case in Arkansas. Their charges include four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, second degree, and four counts of false imprisonment, second degree, which were brought against them two days after Duggar’s other arrest. They have pleaded not guilty.
EW has reached out to Joseph Duggar for comment.
In Tuesday’s hearing, the judge also denied a motion from Duggar’s team to amend an order barring Duggar from being within 500 feet of his alleged victim’s former home. According to the motion, Duggar sought to work on several of his properties, doing maintenance including mowing, landscaping, repairing sheetrock, painting, and installing flooring.
Though the alleged victim had moved out of the house, the judge ruled that if Duggar has any work to be done on the property, he can send an employee or agent of his instead.
The pre-trial hearing for Duggar’s child molestation case has been set for July 14.
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