On the prison phone, Joseph Duggaryour wife, Kendra Duggarrevealed what his family thinks about his recent arrest.
“Just know that everyone loves you, even if you're disappointed,” said Kendra, 27, in an interview on Thursday, March 26, later released by. TMZ.
Joseph, 31, admitted he understood the “disappointment,” but he “absolutely” feels the love of his family.
“I'm not mad or anything like that,” he added as Kendra expressed that they had to deal with the situation day by day. “Yes, that's what we have to do.”
In accordance with Page SixKendra's phone number appeared on Joseph's call list every day – sometimes twice a day. The former reality star, who shares four children with Kendra, was arrested in Arkansas earlier this month on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior on a victim under the age of 12 and lewd and lascivious behavior on a person 18 or older.
Joseph was charged with four additional counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child and four counts of second-degree false imprisonment. He was extradited to Florida on Tuesday, March 31, and entered a written plea of not guilty. He also asked for a trial.
“He's asking to be treated fairly just like everyone else, regardless of where you are in the television industry,” his attorney said during the hearing in Bay County, Florida, on Tuesday.
Duggar's attorney noted that the family is “asking for reasonable bond,” adding, “He has no criminal history.”
Meanwhile, the prosecutor of the State Attorney's Office, said that these allegations are “a serious case. [from] child.”
“Please, no one can be contacted [policy] instead of the victim, as well as not having contact with any children,” said the prosecutor.” “Although he has no criminal history and no ties to the community … he was on vacation and stayed here for a short time. … We are asking for a big bond.”
The judge ordered that Joseph have “no contact with the suspect” and “no unsupervised contact with any children under the age of 18.” His bond was set at $600,000 and he has since been released from custody.
Kendra, meanwhile, was arrested on similar charges of endangering the welfare of a minor on March 20 and was later released on a $1,470 bond.
A source exclusively told Us Weekly that Kendra's arrest had “nothing to do” with her husband's Florida case.
“After he was charged, they did a home study if the children stayed there,” said the source. “It is suspected that they had two rooms where the door lock was locked from the outside instead of from the inside. They tied him up and took his children with that, saying that it is proof that he is locking up his children improperly.”
