Joseph Duggar Arrested

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From Us Weekly:

According to the insider, Kendra was arrested solely based on the results of the home investigation.

“Apparently, they had two rooms where the lock of the doorknob was on the outside instead of inside,” the source explains to Us. “They arrested her and took her kids for that, saying it’s evidence that she wrongly detains her kids.”

Obviously we don't know the details but from what I read online about arkansas, these two charges would apply to locking your child in their room. Interestingly you can use gates and child safety devices over the door knobs so the child is contained in the space but you can't lock the door. All these things would be imprisonment as the child can't get out of the room so I am not sure what the nuances are.

Their kids are 7 (almost 8), 6 1/2, 5 (just turned), and 3 (about to turn 4). They had their first kid 9 months after the wedding, then 4 kids in almost exactly 5 years and then no more? Wonder what happened.

[Anonymous]

I've done some googling about locking kid's doors and most articles seem to center on it's a fire hazard. However, in standard houses, the lock is inside the room. Seems a toddler, or even an older kid, could lock the door from inside their room, and now if there is a fire, you can't easily access the kid in their room.

Switching the door knob so the lock is outside sounds like it keeps a young kid from roaming the house at night, falling down stairs, eating cat food, etc. And if there is an emergency, the parent can open the locked door by flipping the lock/knob from the outside and getting in.

Some people are imagining these are padlocks with keys elsewhere. Seriously, it's the simple lock that's probably on most of your kid's doors, just flipped around.

One night our security alarm was set off by a magnet falling and all of our kids slept through the blaring alarm. I realized if the smoke detectors had gone off, all my kids would have stayed asleep and it was up to us to wake them up.

I had an ODD teen and our house rule was no locked bedroom doors (shut was ok). One kept locking their door so we finally removed the door entirely. There was a bathroom attached, so plenty of privacy for dressing.

Anyway, I disagree that it's against the law to lock kid's bedroom doors to (IMO) keep them safe at night. Baby gates don't work for kids that are climbing monkeys.

Sure, you can set up motion detectors, but isn't it better if you have a wanderer, to just put them in a room where the only thing to do is sleep?

I know someone who switched the door locks for their wandering toddler and they have a potty and sippy cup of water inside the room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is really sad the parents farmed off children to the siblings to raise. They had a system where an older child was a "buddy" to a younger sibling.

Josh who is the older brother now in prison was assigned at age 8 to be the "buddy" to Joseph. He remained his "buddy" up until Josh admitted to sexually abusing several of his sisters and a family friend when he was 14-15 and Joseph was 7-8. That is when the boys were no longer buddies to younger siblings. Not even the younger boys.

Josh wasn't just looking after Joseph, he was also in charge of discipline. So Joseph had to be obedient to Josh.

There has to be a high probability Joseph was abused. And that more inappropriate behavior occurs in that household.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've done some googling about locking kid's doors and most articles seem to center on it's a fire hazard. However, in standard houses, the lock is inside the room. Seems a toddler, or even an older kid, could lock the door from inside their room, and now if there is a fire, you can't easily access the kid in their room.

Switching the door knob so the lock is outside sounds like it keeps a young kid from roaming the house at night, falling down stairs, eating cat food, etc. And if there is an emergency, the parent can open the locked door by flipping the lock/knob from the outside and getting in.

Some people are imagining these are padlocks with keys elsewhere. Seriously, it's the simple lock that's probably on most of your kid's doors, just flipped around.

One night our security alarm was set off by a magnet falling and all of our kids slept through the blaring alarm. I realized if the smoke detectors had gone off, all my kids would have stayed asleep and it was up to us to wake them up.

I had an ODD teen and our house rule was no locked bedroom doors (shut was ok). One kept locking their door so we finally removed the door entirely. There was a bathroom attached, so plenty of privacy for dressing.

Anyway, I disagree that it's against the law to lock kid's bedroom doors to (IMO) keep them safe at night. Baby gates don't work for kids that are climbing monkeys.

Sure, you can set up motion detectors, but isn't it better if you have a wanderer, to just put them in a room where the only thing to do is sleep?

I know someone who switched the door locks for their wandering toddler and they have a potty and sippy cup of water inside the room.

+1 I’m thinking back to what I used to do and I used a child safety knob on the inside doorknob so my son couldn’t open the door and get out at night. It was the only thing that kept him in his room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've done some googling about locking kid's doors and most articles seem to center on it's a fire hazard. However, in standard houses, the lock is inside the room. Seems a toddler, or even an older kid, could lock the door from inside their room, and now if there is a fire, you can't easily access the kid in their room.

Switching the door knob so the lock is outside sounds like it keeps a young kid from roaming the house at night, falling down stairs, eating cat food, etc. And if there is an emergency, the parent can open the locked door by flipping the lock/knob from the outside and getting in.

Some people are imagining these are padlocks with keys elsewhere. Seriously, it's the simple lock that's probably on most of your kid's doors, just flipped around.

One night our security alarm was set off by a magnet falling and all of our kids slept through the blaring alarm. I realized if the smoke detectors had gone off, all my kids would have stayed asleep and it was up to us to wake them up.

I had an ODD teen and our house rule was no locked bedroom doors (shut was ok). One kept locking their door so we finally removed the door entirely. There was a bathroom attached, so plenty of privacy for dressing.

Anyway, I disagree that it's against the law to lock kid's bedroom doors to (IMO) keep them safe at night. Baby gates don't work for kids that are climbing monkeys.

Sure, you can set up motion detectors, but isn't it better if you have a wanderer, to just put them in a room where the only thing to do is sleep?

I know someone who switched the door locks for their wandering toddler and they have a potty and sippy cup of water inside the room.

+1 I’m thinking back to what I used to do and I used a child safety knob on the inside doorknob so my son couldn’t open the door and get out at night. It was the only thing that kept him in his room.

I forgot to mention that the couple I know who do this tried the plastic safety knob on the inside doorknob and the kid figured out how to squeeze it! So that's why they flipped the direction of the doorknob.

Effectively the plastic safety knob functions to keep the kid locked/stuck inside their room, same as flipping the doorknob.

Since I feel the flipped knob is probably safer for fire concerns, I don't agree that the Duggar wife should have been charged.

If there is a fire, a toddler could leave the room and hide elsewhere in the house. Since it takes half a second to unlock the door from the outside, you aren't delayed in rescuing the child. And you don't have to deal with a kid (or teen) who has locked the door from inside and is sleeping through the alarm.

[Anonymous]

And yet again we’re dissecting the actions of a woman in a thread about a gross pedophile. Start a new thread about her and her arrest. It’s not really the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And yet again we’re dissecting the actions of a woman in a thread about a gross pedophile. Start a new thread about her and her arrest. It’s not really the same.

They were both charged with the same charges of false imprisonment and endangering a child. They are interesting charges in the midst of his arrest and the subsequent investigation. They are all tied together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And yet again we’re dissecting the actions of a woman in a thread about a gross pedophile. Start a new thread about her and her arrest. It’s not really the same.

No we are not going to start a new thread. They are all related. Idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From Us Weekly:

According to the insider, Kendra was arrested solely based on the results of the home investigation.

“Apparently, they had two rooms where the lock of the doorknob was on the outside instead of inside,” the source explains to Us. “They arrested her and took her kids for that, saying it’s evidence that she wrongly detains her kids.”

Obviously we don't know the details but from what I read online about arkansas, these two charges would apply to locking your child in their room. Interestingly you can use gates and child safety devices over the door knobs so the child is contained in the space but you can't lock the door. All these things would be imprisonment as the child can't get out of the room so I am not sure what the nuances are.

Their kids are 7 (almost 8), 6 1/2, 5 (just turned), and 3 (about to turn 4). They had their first kid 9 months after the wedding, then 4 kids in almost exactly 5 years and then no more? Wonder what happened.

Not sure it’s related, but Josh went to prison in 2022.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet again we’re dissecting the actions of a woman in a thread about a gross pedophile. Start a new thread about her and her arrest. It’s not really the same.

No we are not going to start a new thread. They are all related. Idiot.

The charges aren’t related. They said so. Two separate set of facts, one found simply because they had a search warrant. She has nothing to do with his charges of child sexual abuse. Idiot.

[Anonymous]

Are we supposed to feel sorry for her? She made her choices. Yes he’s a dirtbag. But watch her stay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we supposed to feel sorry for her? She made her choices. Yes he’s a dirtbag. But watch her stay.

I mean - I'm curious to see what she does before I cast judgment on her. Anna is a POS, but Kendra hasn't officially decided to stay yet.

And I do think it's insane to arrest someone for locking their toddler in a room. I wouldn't do it, but if it's done for their own safety (some kids are climbers) I don't think it's really "false imprisonment."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've done some googling about locking kid's doors and most articles seem to center on it's a fire hazard. However, in standard houses, the lock is inside the room. Seems a toddler, or even an older kid, could lock the door from inside their room, and now if there is a fire, you can't easily access the kid in their room.

Switching the door knob so the lock is outside sounds like it keeps a young kid from roaming the house at night, falling down stairs, eating cat food, etc. And if there is an emergency, the parent can open the locked door by flipping the lock/knob from the outside and getting in.

Some people are imagining these are padlocks with keys elsewhere. Seriously, it's the simple lock that's probably on most of your kid's doors, just flipped around.

One night our security alarm was set off by a magnet falling and all of our kids slept through the blaring alarm. I realized if the smoke detectors had gone off, all my kids would have stayed asleep and it was up to us to wake them up.

I had an ODD teen and our house rule was no locked bedroom doors (shut was ok). One kept locking their door so we finally removed the door entirely. There was a bathroom attached, so plenty of privacy for dressing.

Anyway, I disagree that it's against the law to lock kid's bedroom doors to (IMO) keep them safe at night. Baby gates don't work for kids that are climbing monkeys.

Sure, you can set up motion detectors, but isn't it better if you have a wanderer, to just put them in a room where the only thing to do is sleep?

I know someone who switched the door locks for their wandering toddler and they have a potty and sippy cup of water inside the room.

We don’t even know the true details and you’re writing a novel defending them. 🤮🤮

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we supposed to feel sorry for her? She made her choices. Yes he’s a dirtbag. But watch her stay.

I mean - I'm curious to see what she does before I cast judgment on her. Anna is a POS, but Kendra hasn't officially decided to stay yet.

And I do think it's insane to arrest someone for locking their toddler in a room. I wouldn't do it, but if it's done for their own safety (some kids are climbers) I don't think it's really "false imprisonment."

Her oldest is almost 8! That is not a toddler. And the next oldest are 6 1/2 and 5. You can’t lock an 8 year old in their room.

The kids are old enough to describe what happened. It could be that they needed to charge the mother with something so CPS could take the kids to interview them to find out if their father did anything to them or if the witnessed him doing anything to other children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet again we’re dissecting the actions of a woman in a thread about a gross pedophile. Start a new thread about her and her arrest. It’s not really the same.

No we are not going to start a new thread. They are all related. Idiot.

The charges aren’t related. They said so. Two separate set of facts, one found simply because they had a search warrant. She has nothing to do with his charges of child sexual abuse. Idiot.

The topic is all related so we are including it in this same thread. We aren’t making a spectate Kendra Duggar thread. DUH