Joseph Duggar and his spouse, Kendra, secretly welcomed a fourth youngster in 2022, a yr after the duo mysteriously took their rising household off social media, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The duo as soon as proudly confirmed off their three younger children on Instagram, however now, the images that stay have been flooded with help for Kendra and the kids following Joseph’s stunning arrest amid allegations that he molested a minor youngster.
Joseph and Kendra married in 2017 after a brief courtship.
They welcomed their first youngster, son Garrett, in 2018, adopted by daughter Addison in 2019. The couple proudly launched their new child daughter, Brooklyn Reward Duggar, in a February 23, 2021, Instagram put up, however by no means returned to announce the start of their son, Justus, within the late spring of 2022.
The duo went ultra-secretive after their remaining Instagram put up in November 2021, which celebrated Addison’s second birthday. The candy share got here one month earlier than Joseph’s older brother, Josh, was discovered responsible on two child-porn-related fees in December 2021 and later sentenced to 12 years in federal jail.
Even the primary Duggar household homepage has not but up to date Joseph’s biography to replicate that he is now a father-of-four, which is extremely odd, contemplating how they like to have fun the start of latest kids into the lineage.
The one purpose followers learn about Justus is that eagle-eyed viewers noticed Kendra with a rising child boy in a July 4, 2023, YouTube video that Joseph’s sister, Jinger Duggar Vuolo, shared.
Varied different clues on-line pointed to the infant arriving round June 2022.
The little boy’s title was later uncovered in a June 2023 obituary for Kendra’s grandmother, Peggy Ann Caldwell, which mentioned she left behind “her great-grandchildren Garrett, Addison, Brooklyn and Justus.”
Joseph’s arrest is the most recent darkish stain to come back over the Duggar household, because the accusations in opposition to him are lurid.
A 14-year-old woman claims the previous actuality star “manipulated” her underwear and “grazed her genitals,” whereas persevering with to rub his palms on her thighs beneath a blanket throughout a 2020 household trip in Panama Metropolis, Florida. She was solely 9 years outdated on the time.
The teenager’s father solely simply discovered about what occurred on March 17, after Joseph “admitted his actions to the sufferer’s father and to Tontitown Detectives,” based on the Bay County, Florida, Sheriff’s Workplace.
He was arrested on March 18, and had his mugshot was taken by the Washington County Sheriff’s Division in Arkansas.
It confirmed Joseph had grown a beard since his final social media look, and his hair was noticeably darker.
The married father-of-four was booked for lewd and lascivious conduct – molestation of a sufferer lower than 12 years outdated and lewd and lascivious conduct performed by an individual 18 years or older.
He’s set to be extradited to Florida for his first courtroom look.
The Duggar household rose to fame on the TLC actuality present 19 Children and Counting, which featured the huge brood of fogeys Jim Bob and Michelle.
The sequence centered across the religious fundamentalist Christians residing on an enormous compound in Tontitown, Arkansas, was cancelled in 2015 after it was revealed that the eldest son, Josh, had admitted to his mother and father in 2003 to molesting a minimum of 5 ladies, together with a number of of his sisters, when he was an adolescent.
A number of of his sisters later landed a by-product, Counting On, which was cancelled in 2021 when Josh was arrested for possessing and receiving youngster pornography. He’s at present serving a 12-year federal jail sentence at FCI Seagoville in Texas.