Overview
- Duggar, who appeared before a Bay County judge Tuesday, was granted $600,000 bond and left jail hours later under orders barring unsupervised contact with minors, including his four children.
- Court records set his next hearing for April 20, and the judge also ordered no contact with the alleged victim.
- He faces two Florida felonies — lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under 12 and lewd conduct by a person over 18 — tied to a 2020 family trip where an affidavit says he covered himself and the then 9-year-old with a blanket and grazed her genitals.
- Investigators report a March 17 confrontation by the girl’s father produced recorded admissions during a monitored call, with the child giving a detailed forensic interview soon after.
- Separate Arkansas cases charge Joseph and his wife, Kendra, with misdemeanor child endangerment and false imprisonment after a home check, and relatives say they are heartbroken and support the victim.