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Another ‘19 Kids & Counting’ Duggar Couple Arrested for Child Molestation and Endangerment

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.828K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Oprah Winfrey has just flown the Duggar family, in late 2006, from their isolated farm in Arkansas to Chicago. She covers all accommodations for mom, dad, and their litter of (at the time) 17 kids and counting in exchange for an interview. The Duggars are a well known reality TV family, iconic for their cult-like way of life. They looked like time travelers. A family plucked from the pre-electricity past and dropped in the middle of the big city. Before they can even start filming, an anonymous email in all caps, lands in one of the producer’s inboxes: “…YOU NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH… [REDACTED] HAS MOLESTED [REDACTED] WHILE [REDACTED] WERE SLEEPING AND THE PARENTS HAVE BEEN HIDING THIS SECRET FOR A LONG TIME…” Oprah takes the tip seriously. She cancels their interview and forwards the email straight to the authorities and a child abuse hot line. The email is later found to be sent by a [redacted] female. And not only that, the sender is right… At least 3 Duggars have been arrested thus far, in addition to 1 police officer in connection with their case, all relating to crimes against children. Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com

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0:00.0

This is part four of the Dugger Empire fall.

0:06.0

And if you've been listening to Part 1, 2, and 3, please do that before you listen to this episode because we've gone through Josh Dugger's fall of going through the 2015 In Touch Exposé, the Ashley Madison leak, the Danick Dillon lawsuit.

0:20.5

And now we are finally headed to the final part where Joshua Dugger is arrested and thrown into prison.

0:28.1

And then his brother, Joseph Dugger, will soon be arrested.

0:32.0

And it all starts because there is sin in the camp.

0:36.5

Wait.

0:37.4

When was she arrested?

0:39.3

2021.

0:40.3

So April 29th, 2021, Homeland Security Investigators

0:44.3

walk into a car dealership,

0:46.3

and they have a federal search warrant for all of Joshua Dugger's devices.

0:51.3

The first thing Joshua Dugger does is reach for his phone to call his attorney, but before

0:55.4

he can, the agent sees it because the phone is now evidence. Then it comes the big question. Before the

1:01.2

agents tell Joshua Dugger what they're even investigating, he opens his mouth and he asks,

1:07.7

what is this about? Has somebody been downloading child pornography?

1:11.8

What? It's the kind of question that answers itself, but it doesn't even matter because based

1:16.2

off of all of his devices, the evidence is already there. It is uncovered that Joshua

1:20.3

Duggar used a computer bypassing Covenant's eyes, the software he and his wife have to make

1:25.4

sure that he doesn't watch legal explicit videos featuring

1:27.5

adults, he bypasses that application, goes on to the dark web to download hundreds of

1:33.5

CSAM images. Law enforcement, they track the images to a used car dealership that he works at,

1:39.2

and on his computer, there's that evidence that he downloaded and watched these files. Multiple videos of

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