Josh, the firstborn Duggar child, was accused<\/a> of molesting five younger girls \u2014 four of whom were his sisters \u2014 when he was 15. The series was canceled that year.<\/p>\nIn a separate case, Josh was convicted on two counts of possessing and receiving child pornography in December 2021. He was sentenced to 12\u00bd years in prison in 2022. The Supreme Court rejected his efforts to appeal his case last June.<\/p>\n
Amy Duggar Kind, a cousin of Joseph and Josh Duggar and series regular on \u201c19 Kids and Counting,\u201d released a statement before the arrest of Kendra Duggar \u201cpraying for Joseph\u2019s wife, Kendra, as she begins to process this, and for the protection of their children,\u201d and then a follow-up statement once news of Kendra\u2019s arrest went public. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy statement released on Friday, March 20th was written and submitted before I had any knowledge of Kendra Duggar\u2019s arrest,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I wrote that I was praying for Kendra \u2018as she begins to process this,\u2019 I was speaking to what I believed at the time \u2014 that she was a wife and mother blindsided by devastating news about her husband. I want that context to be unambiguous. Those words were written in a different moment, with different information. The world changed a few hours later.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have now learned that Kendra Duggar was arrested on Friday on four counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment. These are serious charges. They are not the same as Joseph\u2019s charges, but they are not small, and I will not treat them as small.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not going to rush to conclusions about what Kendra knew, when she knew it, or what her role was in any of this. That is the job of law enforcement and the courts, and I trust that process to unfold. What I will say is this: the moment a person faces criminal charges for the endangerment of children, my prayers shift. They shift entirely and without apology to the children.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the four children in that home \u2014 I see you. I pray for you. None of this is your fault, and none of this is your burden to carry.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the original victim, who is now fourteen years old and has watched this story explode across every screen in the country: I am so deeply sorry. You did an incredibly brave thing by coming forward. You deserve to have every institution around you work on your behalf \u2014 not to protect the people who hurt you, and not to protect the image of a family. You. I am still praying for you and your family above all else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kendra Duggar was booked into the Washington County Detention Center on Friday and released on a $1,470 bond the same day.<\/p>\n
Times staff writer Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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