On March 18th, 2026, Joseph Garrett Duggar — seventh child of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, married father of four — was arrested on serious charges involving a minor. According to the Bay County Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit, Joseph allegedly harmed a young girl on multiple occasions during a 2020 family vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida. The victim, now 14 years old, came forward during a forensic interview in 2026. When her father confronted Joseph directly, he allegedly admitted it. When a Tontitown police detective was quietly placed on that same call, he allegedly admitted it again. Twice. On the record. His brother Josh Duggar is currently serving 12 and a half years in federal prison after a 2021 federal conviction involving illegal content depicting minors. Before that conviction, Josh had been found to have harmed five young victims between 2002 and 2003 — four of them his own sisters. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar knew about those incidents. They chose church counseling over a call to the police. The statute of limitations ran out. No charges were filed. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, Jim Bob and Michelle reportedly told authorities they were aware of the allegations involving Joseph and reportedly chose to handle the matter internally through church counseling rather than contacting law enforcement. That reporting has not been independently confirmed and neither has publicly commented. In this episode, Tony Brueski breaks down the full story — the fundamentalist IBLP belief system that made institutional silence a theological obligation, the detailed timeline of how prior allegations were handled inside this family going back more than two decades, Jim Bob's 2002 Senate campaign in which he publicly called for the harshest possible penalties for exactly these types of offenses while his own family was dealing with a similar situation at home, TLC's decade of profits from this family, and the Duggar children who finally broke free and what they revealed when they did. Joseph Duggar awaits extradition to Florida. The family has issued no statement. The pattern has. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #JosephDuggar #DuggarArrested #19KidsAndCounting #JimBobDuggar #IBLP #JoshDuggar #DuggarFamily #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FundamentalistChristianity