{"id":2353669,"date":"2026-03-31T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2353669"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:52:54","slug":"joseph-duggars-whereabouts-after-prison-release-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/joseph-duggars-whereabouts-after-prison-release-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Duggar&#8217;s Whereabouts After Prison Release Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/joseph-duggar\/\"><strong>Joseph Duggar<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s most recent whereabouts have been revealed following his prison release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I know, he is flying out of Panama City Beach airport with his father [<strong>Jim Bob Duggar<\/strong>],\u201d Joseph\u2019s attorney <strong>Albert Sauline<\/strong> told <em>Us Weekly<\/em> on Tuesday, March 31. \u201cHis father was in PCB but was not in the courtroom this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joseph, 31, was released on Tuesday after a bail bondsman \u201cposted on behalf of the family,\u201d per Sauline.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Duggar was in custody in Florida, per the Bay County Jail. The Counting On alum was arrested in Arkansas earlier this month on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior involving molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>According to records viewed by <em>Us<\/em> on Tuesday, Joseph entered a written plea of not guilty and requested a jury trial. Joseph was subsequently released on a $600,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/joseph-duggar-arrested-for-child-molestation-what-to-know\/\">stands accused<\/a> of molesting a 9-year-old girl in 2020 during a family trip to Florida. According to an affidavit obtained by <em>Us<\/em>, the alleged victim told a Arkansas\u2019s Tontitown Police Department detective in a forensic interview that there were \u201cseveral instances of sexual abuse\u201d involving Joseph.<\/p>\n<p>The girl recalled feeling \u201cuncomfortable\u201d and \u201cconfused\u201d during the alleged incidents. She claimed that Joseph \u201capologized for his actions\u201d and \u201cthe incidents stopped occurring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the child molestation allegations, both Joseph and his wife, <strong>Kendra Duggar<\/strong>, have been charged with four additional counts of endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree and four counts of false imprisonment in the second degree. Kendra, 27, was arrested on the same charges earlier and subsequently released on a $1,470 bond.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Duggar family told <em>Us<\/em> in a statement, \u201c[Kendra\u2019s] is a misdemeanor charge totally unrelated to the Florida case.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/joseph-duggars-bond-set-at-600000-after-arrest\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/joseph-duggars-bond-set-at-600000-after-arrest\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Joseph Duggar Out of Custody After Posting $600K Bond<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUPDATE 3\/31\/26 at 2:05 p.m. ET \u2014 Us Weekly can confirm Joseph Duggar is out of custody after posting his $600,000 bond on Tuesday, March 31. Original story below: Joseph Duggar\u2019s bond has been set after his arrest on child molestation charges. \u201cHe\u2019s asking to be treated as fairly as anyone else, regardless of his [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A source with knowledge of the case exclusively told <em>Us<\/em> that Kendra\u2019s arrest \u201chas nothing to do with Joseph\u2019s\u201d molestation charge.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAfter his charge, they automatically do a home study if minors live there. They came to her house,\u201d the insider said. \u201cApparently, they had two rooms where the lock of the doorknob was on the outside instead of inside. They arrested her and took her kids for that, saying it\u2019s evidence that she wrongly detains her kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joseph and Kendra tied the knot in 2017 following a brief engagement. The couple share four children: Garrett, Addison, Brooklyn and Justus.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rainn.org\/help-and-healing\/hotline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tb-prevent-default=\"true\">National Sexual Assault Hotline<\/a>\u00a0at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). If you or someone you know is experiencing child abuse, call or text\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/childhelphotline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tb-prevent-default=\"true\">Child Help Hotline<\/a>\u00a0at 1-800-422-4453.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Duggar\u2019s most recent whereabouts have been revealed following his prison release. \u201cAs far as I know, he is flying out of Panama City Beach airport with his father [Jim Bob Duggar],\u201d Joseph\u2019s attorney Albert Sauline told Us Weekly on Tuesday, March 31. \u201cHis father was in PCB but was not in the courtroom this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2353670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367,24003],"class_list":["post-2353669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Joseph-Duggars-Whereabouts-After-Prison-Release-Revealed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353671,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353669\/revisions\/2353671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}