New Affidavit Reveals Joseph Duggar Told Detective His ‘Intentions Were Not Pure’ While Confessing to Repeatedly Molesting Girl

Joseph Duggar confessed to molesting a 9-year-old girl in a phone call with the child’s father and a detective with the local police department, according to an affidavit filed by the Bay County Sheriff’s Office and obtained by PEOPLE. BCSO Criminal Investigator Chase Norris writes in the affidavit that he was told Joseph had confessed to molesting the minor while speaking with her father on March 17.

That information was relayed to Norris by a detective from the Tontitown Police Department, at which time Norris “requested the detective and victim’s father call the defendant,” according to the affidavit.

Once on the phone, the affidavit states that Joseph “admitted his actions,” saying “he touched the victim over her clothing.”

Joseph also “admitted his intentions were not pure,” according to the affidavit.

Most of the details included in the affidavit are taken from a forensic interview with the minor, who is now 14, which took place at the Tontitown Police Department. Norris writes that after reviewing the interview, he learned that “the victim’s family traveled to Panama City Beach” in 2020 for a vacation.

At the vacation home, Joseph “asked the victim to sit on his lap, numerous times” and “would cradle the victim with his arms,” Norris writes. Joseph then began to “ask the victim to sit on the couch” beside him according to the affidavit. Once sitting, Joseph “covered the parties with a blanket” the affidavit says, before proceeding to “pull the victim’s dress up and touch the victim’s thighs.”

In her interview the victim said Joseph “would touch the top portions of her thighs and would inch higher and higher, closer to the victim’s waistline.” The minor female said this happened on several occasions, and that “the defendant’s hand grazed the victim’s vagina” each time, “which made her feel uncomfortable and confused,” according to the affidavit.

Joseph “eventually approached the victim and apologized for his actions” according to the affidavit, and “the incidents stopped occurring after the defendant apologized for his actions.”

The BCSO is now preparing to extradite Joseph from the Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas to a facility in Florida where he is expected to be arraigned on a charge of lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less than 12 years old conducted by a person 18 years or older.

This is now the second Duggar son who will be in court facing child sxx abuse charges. In 2021, Joseph’s oldest brother Josh, 38, was convicted by a federal grand jury of receiving and possessing material depicting minors engaged in sxxually explicit conduct after investigators discovered such material on his work computer at a used car dealership he operated. He is now serving a 12-year sentence in a Texas prison.