Arkansas police arrest Kendra Duggar on child abuse charges | Arkansas

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 TLC’s 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 sheriff’s office in Arkansas. She has a hearing scheduled for Monday.

Kendra Duggar’s 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.

Joseph Duggar acknowledged touching the child inappropriately in a conversation with her father and a detective, saying that his “intentions were not pure”, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by People magazine.

The charges against Kendra Duggar are unrelated to the ones that her husband faces in Florida, according to KNWA.

The 19 Kids and Counting series portrayed the lives of parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their children, all of whose names began with the letter J. The Duggars, who live in Tontitown, Arkansas, were strict Baptists who home-schooled their children, wore modest clothing and embraced a conservative Christian family values ethic.

The show was canceled in 2015 after the Duggar’s eldest son, Joshua, faced allegations of molesting four of his sisters as a teenager. He is currently imprisoned for possessing child sex abuse images.

Joseph, 31, is the seventh-oldest of the Duggar’s 19 children. He met Kendra at church and married her in 2017, when he was 23 and she was 19.

Their courtship was depicted in a spin-off that TLC released after canceling 19 Kids and Counting called Counting On. Joseph and Kendra Duggar have four children together, ages three to seven.