Duggar Brother Arrested for Child Molestation

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Joseph Dugger got booked into a Florida jail Tuesday morning for child molestation charges.

Authorities say a now 14-year-old girl came forward claiming the 31-year-old abused her when she was 9 during a family trip back in.

2020. She's alleging he kept asking her to sit on his lap, then used a blanket to touch her inappropriately.

Meanwhile, Dugger and his wife Kendra faced separate charges in Arkansas for endangering minors and false imprisonment.

Officials stressed those have nothing to do with the Florida case.

Kendra got out on bail, but Joseph stayed locked up initially in a small county jail there.

Josh Dugger, Joseph's brother, who's serving a 12-year sentence for child pornography, had his lawyer speak out.

He gets the pain of accusations, saying they can wreck lives and get twisted for headlines.

The family knows scrutiny all too well from past scandals.

From jail, Joseph called Kendra and described his spot in solitary lockdown 23 hours a day in an 8-by-10 cell.

He said he's reading a tonne and resting, but sleeps rough.

This hits hard for the Dugger clan, whose reality TV fame crumbled before first with Josh's teen molestation probe in 2006 than his.

Conviction.

Now, Joseph's court date looms as the family navigates more fallout.