BREAKING NEWSJoseph Duggar Pleads Not Guilty to Child Endangerment and False Imprisonment as Fate Looms Over Molestation Charges
Joseph Duggar insisted his innocence on child endangerment and false imprisonment charges.
April 30 2026, Updated 12:37 a.m. ET
Joseph Duggar has pleaded not guilty to child endangerment and false imprisonment charges.
The disgraced reality star insisted his innocence on charges made against him and wife Kendra Duggar, who also pleaded not guilty, in Arkansas. His next court date for the case is scheduled for August 10.
The child endangerment charges were filed after investigators found exterior locks on doors inside of the couple's home during a separate inquiry.
Kendra Duggar Also Pleaded Not Guilty
Kendra Duggar also pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Joseph's plea in district court this week is separate from brutal charges of child molestation he faces after being accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl in Florida.
The Arkansas charges were made against the Duggars just days after he was arrested in March amid an investigation into a 14-year-old's claims she was repeatedly abused by Joseph during a family vacation when she was 9.
Kendra Duggar Reunited With Her 4 Kids After Not Guilty Plea
Joseph Duggar has yet to enter a plea on child molestation charges.
While Joseph had already been in police custody at the time the child endangerment charges came to light, Kendra was arrested a couple days later. She was eventually released on a $1,470 bond and entered her not guilty plea last week.
Kendra's no-contact order was lifted, allowing her to resume interactions with the alleged victims in the case — which happen to be her and Joseph's four children.
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Kendra Duggar was also arrested on child endangerment charges.
Though Kendra — who tied the knot with her husband in 2017 — was able to reunite with her kids on Wednesday, April 29, Joseph is still prohibited from engaging in any unsupervised contact with his four children or his two youngest siblings under conditions of his pretrial release for his Florida molestation case.
Joseph Duggar Accused of Sexually Abusing 9-Year-Old
Kendra and Joseph Duggar share four kids.
Joseph also pleaded not guilty to charges of molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older in Florida, where he was released from prison on a $600,000 bond.
He was accused of asking the 9-year-old child to sit on his lap during a trip to Panama City, Fla., in 2020. Joseph allegedly later "asked her to sit next to him on a couch and covered them with a blanket."
"During this time, Duggar manipulated the victim’s underwear and grazed her genitals," the Bay County Sheriff's Office claimed in its report.
