Joseph Duggar allegedly admitted to the abuse before a lawyer was in the room. Once to the victim's father. Then again on a phone call while Tontitown detectives listened in real time. That's the hand the defense was dealt before the first hearing even started. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down what a defense actually looks like when the prosecution reportedly already has your client's own words. From the decision to file a written not-guilty plea and demand a jury trial without ever standing in open court, to what it means that the defense team reportedly hasn't seen the full scope of Florida's evidence — Motta examines what's really happening behind the legal strategy. Joseph posted $600,000 bond in Bay County, returned to Arkansas, and is barred from unsupervised contact with anyone under eighteen, including his own children. His Florida charges — lewd and lascivious molestation of a child under twelve — carry a mandatory minimum of 25 years. In Arkansas, he faces separate misdemeanor charges alongside his wife Kendra, stemming from investigators reportedly finding locks on the outside of their children's bedroom doors. Those locks are where the case splits open into something deeper. The same practice the Duggar family reportedly used a generation earlier — repeated in the next generation's home without anyone apparently connecting the dots. Kendra now faces eight misdemeanor charges. Their children have been removed from the home. In recorded jailhouse calls, she sobbed about losing her kids and told Joseph they were her number one priority — then told him everybody still loves him. She hired her own attorney. She told him not to trust anyone. That contradiction — the conditioned wife raised inside IBLP theology where questioning your husband is treated as sin, and the woman fighting for her children — is the psychological center of this story. Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott unpacks what happens when a woman raised inside that system has to process the arrest of her husband for allegedly abusing a child. Is Kendra a victim of the same system her husband allegedly exploited? Or is that even the right question? 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 #KendraDuggar #DuggarFamily #BobMotta #ShavaunScott #IBLP #DuggarArrest #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PanamaCityBeach