That’s Disgusting! Minor Accusing Joseph Duggar of Inappropriate Conduct Details How He Groomed Her at Age 9: Affidavit
The girl, now 14, told police about her interactions with Joseph Duggar prior to ‘several incidents of sexual abuse,’ according to an affidavit
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The minor accusing Joseph Duggar of sexual assault told police about how she was allegedly groomed by the reality star.
In a forensic interview with a detective from Arkansas’s Tontitown Police Department, the minor said she was just 9-years-old and on a family vacation in Florida when “several incidents of sexual abuse” occurred, according to a copy of the affidavit for an arrest warrant filed in the case and obtained by PEOPLE.
Joseph was a 25-year-old father of two at the time, and his wife Kendra Duggar was pregnant with their third child in as many years.
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The minor said that Joseph was among the guests in Panama City Beach during the trip, and per the affidavit she told the detective that during the vacation he “asked [her] to sit on his lap, numerous times.”
She “would sit on the defendant’s lap,” and Joseph would then “cradle [her] with his arms,” according to the affidavit.
The affidavit said that the minor, who is now 14, told the detective that things started to change with Joseph the longer they were on vacation.
Joseph allegedly started to ask the minor to “sit on the couch beside [him]” and then “covered the parties with a blanket,” according to the affidavit.
“Once the parties were covered, the defendant would pull the victim’s dress up and touch the victim’s thighs,” Deputy Sheriff Darrell Norris of the Bay County Sheriff’s Office wrote in the affidavit.
The minor said in her interview that “during these incidents [Joseph’s] hand grazed [her] vagina” and that his “hand was outside of her underwear,” according to the affidavit.
This occurred “several times” according to the accuser, who described feeling “uncomfortable” and “confused.”
Joseph “eventually approached the victim and apologized for his actions,” according to the affidavit, at which point “the incidents stopped occurring.”
Duggar was arrested on March 18 and is being held without bail while awaiting extradition to Florida on two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior — one for the molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and one for conduct committed by a person 18 years or older.




