Joseph Duggar, Wife Kendra Went Dark on Social Media One Year After He Allegedly Abused Minor

Former 19 Kids and Counting star Joseph Duggar and his wife, Kendra Caldwell Duggar, quietly stepped back from Instagram in November 2021 — one year after he’s accused of molesting a 9-year-old girl.

A review of the couple’s family account, titled Little Duggar Family, shows the married couple have not posted since that time. The page’s 61 posts document family milestones, including birthday celebrations, pregnancy announcements and a mix of professional and personal photos.

Their final upload, dated November 3, 2021, wished their daughter Addison a happy second birthday.

Joseph and Kendra married in Arkansas in 2017 and share four children: sons Garrett and Justus, and daughters Addison and Brooklyn.

In Touch readers know, Joseph — the 31-year-old son of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and younger brother of sex offender Josh Duggar, 38, who is currently incarcerated for child pornography possession — was arrested on Wednesday, March 18 in Washington County, Arkansas.

He faces charges of lewd and lascivious behavior (molestation of a victim less than 12 years old) and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office in Florida.

Authorities say the charges stem from an alleged 2020 incident involving a then-9-year-old who was on vacation with her family in Panama City Beach, Florida. Joseph is currently awaiting extradition to Florida.

In a post shared Wednesday, March 18, to their official Facebook page, the sheriff’s office said that “Bay County investigators were contacted by a detective with the Tontitown Police Department regarding a report of past sexual abuse.”

The sheriff’s office said a 14-year-old victim “participated in a forensic interview” and disclosed “several incidents” involving Joseph that allegedly took place on a family vacation in Panama City Beach when she was 9 in 2020.

According to authorities, the teenager claimed Joseph “repeatedly asked her to sit on his lap.” Joseph allegedly covered them with a blanket and “grazed her genitals,” according to the BCSO. He allegedly continued to “rub his hands on her thighs.”

The victim stated Joseph apologized and the incidents stopped. However, the victim’s father confronted Joseph about these incidents on Tuesday, March 17, when Joseph allegedly admitted his actions to the father and to Tontitown detectives.

Joseph’s arrest echoes his older brother Josh’s past crimes. In Touch was the first to break the news of Josh Duggar’s underage sexual molestation scandal in May 2015.