Just days after her husband, Joseph Duggar, was arrested for molesting a nine-year-old girl, Kendra Duggar has likewise been arrested on multiple counts of child endangerment and false imprisonment.
According to the Tontitown Police Department, following the execution of a search warrant in Arkansas that led to her husband facing extradition to Florida (where his crimes were committed), both Kendra Duggar and Joseph are facing:
- Four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor (second degree)
- Four counts of false imprisonment (second degree)
Kendra and Joe have four children.
Reportedly, when police officers arrived to arrest Joseph, they found padlocks on all the children’s doors, locking them from the inside, which would make it impossible to exit in the event of a fire or other emergency.
Both charges are Class A misdemeanors, and the maximum punishment per count is a fine of up to $2,500 and up to one year in jail.
While these punishments could run consecutively if found guilty, they almost always run concurrently.
Along with these lesser charges, Joseph is facing between 15 years and life in prison for the Florida charges, which include:
- Lewd and Lascivious Behavior – Molestation of a Victim Less Than 12 Years Old
- Lewd and Lascivious Behavior Conducted By a Person 18 Years or Older.
29 responses to “Kendra Duggar Arrested, Facing Multiple Counts Regarding Her Children”
The result of the IBLP’s view of blind obedience to authority. What they teach is close to godly patriarchy, but not quite. The basic ideas concerning structure are not wrong, but the view of godly leadership is not Biblical. The most obvious being that one must submit to authority even when authority is not submitted to the Lord. That’s the wicked worldly form of patriarchy, not godly patriarchy.
In my younger days, I was a handful. The boys in the neighborhood, we all fought all the time. We played rough. We were about the opposite of the kids these days with parents making them wear helmets the second they walk out the door. We were turned loose. And we fought. I had a temper problem. I was very strong-willed. And I had not learned how to “in my anger, do not sin”.
Well, along about the seventh grade or so, the IBLP seminar rolled through town, and Mom took me. At that time it was called the Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts. I still remember some of that content. I still have the book packed away somewhere. And I can tell you that it did help me. One part I’ve never forgotten is that when we look at others we need to remember the Lord created them and loves them.
My parents did much more than that to move me in the right direction, and they were not ardent adherents involved in everything IBLP (their view of godly leadership and parenthood was more in line with scripture (don’t provoke your children to wrath, it’s not lording-over but service, and so on), but that seminar did help. By the time I reached high school, I was no longer violent.
If one in a position of authority is out of line, and is not submitted to the Lord, then there is no obligation to blindly obey. There’s a right way to deal with that circumstance, but there’s no obligation to blindly obey. Likewise if one is not a rightful authority, there is no obligation to obey. So on and so forth.
The supposed need to lock (apparently) unruly children in their rooms, is a very good example of lording over versus leadership. The former necessitates the strong assertion of absolute power and forcibly making others submit. The latter necessitates oneself willingly and graciously submitting to the Lord, such that others will want to follow.
You’ve got to WANT to submit to the Lord. When that’s what you want, then those whom the Lord has obligated you to lead, will WANT to follow you.
Then you won’t have the need to padlock any doors.
When the IBLP was more focused on youth conflicts, and more on children obeying their parents and others in rightful positions of authority, and so on, such teaching concerning obedience certainly wouldn’t have been ill-intended.
When such a wrong view of authority is coupled with a false gospel that essentially perverts the grace of God into a license to sin, a more antinomian sort of gospel, one that denies the power thereof, believe one can be born again yet continue in sin, then you’ve got very serious and compounding problems.
Lastly and importantly …
You have to be careful. As a lawyer once told me concerning the subject of refusing to obey unlawful orders of law enforcement, “you’d better know what you’re doing.” He was giving an example where he once disobeyed an officer and told him, “no, you do not have probable cause”. Right. And the same applies to scripture. If you do disobey, you need to be able to back it up with scripture. It needs to be a matter of honoring and obeying the Lord. A matter of going up the chain of command, so to speak. It must not be a matter of rebellion, but rather obedience when, where, how, why, and to whom obedience is rightfully due. The Lord must be put first always, and in all things.
here is where you are diluted in your beliefs. I knew a girl in my early twenties that I was having a fling with and got semi close to and she admitted to me that when she was 12 she got tired of her parents trying to force her to go to church so she had decided to sleep with one of the neighborhood older kids and then went straight to the police and claimed her father raped her and her mother covered it up. both parents did jail time and the girl went to a foster home where she banged the foster dad until she was eighteen so she could get away with whatever she wanted. nit everything is as cut and dry as you’d like to portray and not all children are innocent and trustworthy. this by no means excuses what these parents did with the padlocks but your sunshine and butterfly attitude and beliefs don’t represent reality as a whole. reality is that ALL scenarios are possible and some are more probable than you could ever imagine.
Reality is what God says it is …
If one in leadership tells someone under his charge to sin, should he be obeyed?
Nope …
The world says seeing is believing. God says believing is seeing. If you want to know what’s real, I’d advise taking His word over that of a harlot.
Right? You failed to consider the scenario where the harlot lies to you.
What you’re talking about is just about the opposite of what I stated. You reversed the logic, but the logic is not reversible.
Follow?
I did not say that righteous parents never have sinful children.
Didn’t say that …
I said parents in rebellion against the Lord have problems … they find themselves having to lord over rather than lead. They teach their children standards other than God’s standards, even if just by their own example. And that messes up the children.
You can’t reverse that logic and say that righteous parents who submit to the Lord will never have sinful children. It’s not reversible.
And the reason it isn’t points all the way back to the corruption of the world from the sin of Adam. That child, no matter how righteous the parents, inherits that corruption, and is influenced by a corrupt world.
Righteous parents will counter that corruption far more than wicked parents who themselves are given to the corruption.
Understand? Hopefully I’ve adequately explained it. As Fuzz will attest, my writing skills are terrible. I readily admit that. If it were a sin, I’d apologize, but it’s not, so I won’t.
It is very similar to what we call the “rule of law”. Even Jesus, to whom all authority and power is given, said, paraphrasing, “I’m not condemning you. The law is condemning you”.
That law officer has authority, but he has no power. There’s a difference. So if you’re going to disobey, you’d better be appealing to the law of the land, or you’re going to get yourself into serious trouble. Likewise if he acts, he’d better also be appealing to the law of the land, or he’ll get himself into serious trouble.
Godly leadership is about the same. We might have positions of authority, obligations to the Lord, jobs to do in that regard, but we don’t have the power, He does. And if we start feeling the least bit powerful, thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought to think (most of you know I’m referencing some well known scripture – don’t have time this morning to find the chapter and verse), that’s the moment we need to humble ourselves.
Now consider, why is it that in the body of Christ, leadership is not lording-over, but rather service (Matt. 20:25, etc.) ???
The implanted word. The work of the Holy Spirit to convict and comfort.
The appeal to that law … to God’s standards.
That’s how it works, and why it works. Whether you lead or follow, you’d better be appealing to His standards. Otherwise, you’ll get yourself into some serious trouble.
I’m led to say these things I’m posting here, and would not post otherwise. Like most of us all, I look forward to the day my work is done. Soon I’ll stop posting again, when it’s the right time. I do not mean to “hog the blog”.
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That’s the freedom of the Gospel. Those who are truly born again are like the employees who don’t need to be closely supervised. Our supervisor is the Holy Spirit. And our work instructions are in the implanted word. We know the job, and we do the job, without having to be forced.
Like Privates who carry orders from the General. Right. If any in the chain of command defy those orders from the top, we can and should pull those orders out of our pocket when necessary.
There’s rightful and Godly disobedience, and there’s defiant, prideful rebellion. The two are not the same. So be careful.
Tekton, why do you publish such lengthly run on posts?
To say what needs to be said.
If you can say it better than I can, then by all means please do so. Then I wouldn’t have to.
If the next question is can’t I do a better job of it, the answer to that is no, I cannot. I’m doing the best I can.
“26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,c not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” (1 Cor. 1:26-31)
Your “problem” Fuzz is that your writing skills are too good, you’re too smart, and you’re not foolish enough. 😉
I have terrible grammar. I’m not smart. I’m often very foolish. Unsophisticated. I’m a nobody. An old loser. And apparently that’s why the Lord leads me to speak. I don’t know. You’ll have to ask Him.
But if you will say it, and say it better than I, then by all means, please do so. Or if you believe points I’ve made did not need to be made, then you can explain that.
I’m passing through. When I’m done speaking, I will stop posting, as the Lord leads, as I have done in the past. Probably for several months.
Fuzz, interestingly enough, you have demonstrated what I’ve been talking about in the comments here and under other articles. By taking issue with the length of posts and grammar, neither of which are sinful, you have diverted attention to the commandments of men and away from the commandments of God. Essentially the result is to compel me to please people rather than please the Lord.
I’m not saying you intentionally have done so, I’m showing you how it works …
Christians need to quit caring so much what the world thinks. It leads us astray. Instead stay focused on what the Lord thinks, and focused on pleasing Him first.
“3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.” (1 Tim. 6:3-5)
That means, Fuzz, don’t quarrel with me about words.
If you take issue with content – anything I’ve said, or believe it shouldn’t have been said, or didn’t need to be said, or you don’t understand something I said, that’s fine. But don’t nitpick about how I said it, especially in a manner that diverts attention in the direction of pleasing the world.
It’s ok to let others see our imperfection. I’m not here to make myself look good, or to draw attention to myself. I’m here to draw attention to the Lord. I’m not here to try to appear perfect. I’m here to make it known that I’m not perfect, that none of us are, and that’s what the Gospel is all about.
So you should see the point I’ve been making here. If you’re going to chastise someone or take issue with something, then do so based on the Lord’s standards. If it’s sinful then do so. If it isn’t sinful, then let it go. That’s how you lead …
I’ll be done posting soon enough. In the meantime, kindly don’t distract me.
I’m here speaking, in fact, sheep that I am, because our shepherds have all gone awol. They are the ones who should be speaking up. But they are not doing the job the Lord gave them to do.
Also, btw. Thanks for caring about the wickedness done to my Mother and I. Really appreciate the support, in your response to those … er … wait, there was no such response … never mind …
Apparently we deserved to be done badly wrong, and for the church to do nothing but to encourage the wrongdoer to continue in his sins, because of my bad grammar and long posts.
Very typical of many these days. They have no problem condemning somebody for bad grammar, and minor inconveniences. People don’t care about anyone but themselves and their own comfort. 2 Tim. 3 perfectly describes it.
How would you like to have $194K stolen from you and your mother, everything you have for your retirement, and for the church to do nothing but encourage the thief to continue in his theft?
Am I supposed to apologize for you being severely inconvenienced by having to scroll down a little more than you wanted?
Severe sin against a brother? – no problem.
Minor inconvenience that isn’t a sin? – WWIII
It’s a gospel of self pleasure, that determines right and wrong based on whether or not it comforts and pleases.
More applicable to the subject of this article, how could you possibly lead, as a servant, in the body of Christ, when you can’t even sacrifice an extra swipe of the finger without getting agitated?
How could you possibly sacrifice for wife and children, when you can’t even manage to sacrifice a swipe of the finger or a click on the scrollbar, for the sake of a brother?
What happens when you discipline your children not based on the commandments of God, but based on whether or not you are displeased or inconvenienced?
You give some thought to all that I have said to you here, Fuzz. I’m not lashing out at you. I’m using this as an opportunity to, yet again, say what needs to be said, not just to you, but to all who read …
They locked those children up not because it was what’s best for the children. Not for the children, but for themselves. Because they only cared about their own comfort and pleasure …
See a common thread here? What else has been going on in that family?
Pay attention to what I’m telling you here. I do not post by compulsion. I post by conviction. It needs to be said, no matter how many posts or how long the posts …
The world’s way will have you all over the place, pendulum swinging wildly from one side to the other. One minute you’re rebelliously defiant. The next you’re not defiant enough and become complicit in sin. Back and forth from sin to sin.
God’s way is steady right down the straight and narrow. His orders never change. His standards never change. There’s no jerking around all over the place (and also not submitting to being jerked around all over the place). And in that there is freedom and peace. No need for any padlocks on doors.
And so this his how and what to teach your children. Teach them first to be obedient to the Lord. And if they ever defy you for that reason, be grateful they did so.
You teach that first by example, and second by how you discipline. Be careful to discipline according to the commandments of God and not according to the commandments of men. If they sin, discipline them. But do not discipline them if they haven’t sinned. Never tell them to do anything that is sinful. Don’t sin against them. Don’t lie to them or deceive them. And take the time to explain why you’re doing what you’re doing, to teach them right from wrong. Show them the scriptures. Show them how you too are obeying the Lord, and that’s what it’s about. One day you won’t be around anymore. One day they may have children of their own. You’ve got to prepare them for that time. Not to look to you, but to look to the Lord.
That’s the job. That’s how you teach them …
The same goes for any leadership in the Body of Christ. Do that, and you just might be surprised to discover there is no need for padlocks.
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This is quite sad! It is like the Duggan family tree is diseased.
It’s even more like Adam’s family tree is diseased.
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Lazy parenting, just lock them up….I guess they were teaching their children to deal with being in Jail, why else would a parent lock their child up??
They must believe their children will be felons when they grow up…..
Maybe the apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree..
All jokes aside, this is disgusting,,
The Duggars have bad religion……
Every family has its black sheep. Goes back to Cain and Abel