Kendra Duggar charged/Duggar family statements/Will there be a trial?
Leaving Eden Podcast
Leaving Eden LLC
4.5 • 744 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the continuing fallout from Joseph Duggar's arrest for child molestation, including Kendra Duggar's Child Endangerment/False Imprisonment charges, our breakdown of these charges, family statements made by/on behalf of Duggar family members, and our speculation on whether or not this case will go to trial.
In the extended patreon edition, we discuss in greater detail our impressions of Amy Duggar after our (limited) interactions with her when she was a guest on our show while promoting her book.
CW for discussion of CSA and CSAM
AT NO POINT will we be speculating on the identity of the victim.
02:00 - Kendra Duggar Arrested!
02:52 - Please subscribe and join our Patreon!
04:28 - Tonitown police file charges
06:45 - What "Unrelated" means
07:40 - WE ARE NOT LAWYERS
07:55 - Endangering the Welfare of a Minor
10:05 - New Information about Joe's Confession
11:40 - Our Original Theory
12:22 - Locks on the doors?
13:40 - Unsecured Firearms
14:40 - False Imprisonment
14:50 - Jason does not use power tools safely
16:30 - IBLP and Cult of Personality
16:50 - Magical Thinking
17:35 - How serious are Kendra's charges?
24:44 - Thank you to our Patrons!
26:19 - Jill and Derick Dillard's statement
29:48 - Jessa and Ben Seewald's Statement
30:22 - Amy Duggar King's Statement
31:41 - Amy's book plug
35:40 - Access and Accountability
37:59 - People who deconstruct and stay Christian
40:40 - Josh Duggar's Statement
46:03 - Joseph Duggar's Phone Call
47:20 - Jim Bob is running everything
48:44 - Will there be a trial?
49:04 - Can you imagine being Michelle Duggar?
51:17 - No statement from Jim Bob and Michelle
52:27 - We hope the victim's name never comes out
54:55 - Megyn Kelly is not a real journalist
55:57 - We hope the stories of survivors continue to be taken seriously
57:29 - Should Christians pay taxes?
55:29 - Should Christians pay taxes?
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| 0:00.0 | No rolling river of time. |
| 0:07.0 | You've healed me in too many days. |
| 0:13.0 | No regrets, no confusion. |
| 0:18.0 | There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways |
| 0:29.1 | welcome into the leaving eden podcast welcome welcome welcome welcome in a kendra dougar has now |
| 0:35.3 | been arrested for child endangerment and false imprisonment. |
| 0:38.6 | She's had charges filed against her. |
| 0:40.3 | The Toneytown Police Department filed charges against both Joe and Kendra Dugger. |
| 0:44.6 | Kendra was not home when the police came looking, but she and Joe have both each officially |
| 0:49.3 | been charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree, as well as false |
| 0:55.4 | imprisonment in the second degree. None of these charges are felonies. They are all class |
| 1:00.1 | a misdemeanors in this episode. We're going to break down these charges, try to suss out what's |
| 1:05.0 | going on here. And since we released our episode a few days ago, Dougger family members have |
| 1:10.6 | come out with statements. So we're |
| 1:12.0 | going to talk about that. And then we're going to talk about potentially what's going on in the future. Will we see a trial? What's going to happen? So that's what's going to happen in today's episode. If you are new to this show, my co-host, Sadie Carpenter, she was raised Fundy. She was raised as a Christian fundamentalist. We talk about cults, fundamentalism, religion, all things |
| 1:29.9 | related to that. So if you're interested in... was raised fundy uh she was raised as a christian fundamentalist we talk about cults fundamentalism |
| 1:28.8 | religion all things related to that so if you're interested in this topic of the duggers and you |
| 1:33.5 | want to really know systemically how all of this stuff works at a deeper level please subscribe |
| 1:39.0 | to the show you can go and check out our whole bat catalog our second season is what we're doing |
| 1:43.7 | now on youtube and we're doing now on YouTube, |
| 1:44.5 | and we're kind of really starting from the beginning and doing that with that medium and |
| 1:48.5 | trying to tell it well. But we do have five years of audio-only content. So if you want to go |
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