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- 0:18[SPEAKER_00]: Joseph Dugger in his wife, Kendra, share a long family history, having known each other for years before their marriage in 2017.
- 0:25[SPEAKER_00]: Both come from large families led by strong fundamentalist Christian patriarchs.
- 0:29[SPEAKER_00]: Kendra is the oldest of nine children born to Pastor Paul Calldwell, who founded Lighthouse Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas, after moving from Virginia.
- 0:38[SPEAKER_00]: The two families were closely connected with Paul officiating both Joanna Dugger's wedding and Jo and Kendra's Nubsules in September 2017.
- 0:46[SPEAKER_00]: However, Paul and Jim Bob Dugger reportedly fell out around 2020 and no longer communicated.
- 0:51[SPEAKER_00]: In 2014, imprisoned Josh Dugger publicly supported Paul during his unsuccessful campaign for the Arkansas State House, urging followers to back him on social media.
- 1:01[SPEAKER_00]: One comment on Josh's tweet from March 2024 read, This didn't age well.
- 1:06[SPEAKER_00]: Paul also appeared on the Dugger's TLC series.
- 1:09[SPEAKER_00]: where viewers saw Joe request permission to court Kendra and later to marry her.
- 1:14[SPEAKER_00]: Paul gained notoriety in 2015 for his church's distribution of anti-LGBTQ pamphlets, claiming there are no such things as homosexuals, which sparked local outrage.
- 1:24[SPEAKER_00]: He defended the pamphlets as an attempt to spread love.
- 1:27[SPEAKER_00]: Recently, Joe and Kendra made headlines for troubling reasons after stepping back from social media in November 2021.
- 1:34[SPEAKER_00]: Joe was arrested on March 18th, allegedly confessing to molesting a 14-year-old girl and admitting his intentions were not pure.
- 1:41[SPEAKER_00]: Following a search of the dugher home, authorities discovered bedroom doors that could only be locked from the outside.
- 1:46[SPEAKER_00]: On March 20, both Joe and Kendra faced four counts of endangering the welfare of a child and four counts of false imprisonment.
- 1:54[SPEAKER_00]: While Joe remained incarcerated, Kendra was arrested and later released on bond with her mother-in-law, Michelle Dugger, picking her up from the Washington County Detention Center.