Jana Duggar.Photo: Jana Duggar/Instagram
Jana Duggar has been charged with endangering the welfare of a minor.
The document did not disclose the circumstances surrounding the charge.
Jana is scheduled to appear in court for a bench trial on Jan. 10, 2022.
Her attorney did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
The news of Jana’s child endangerment charge comes one day after her brotherJosh Duggarwasconvictedof receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material.
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Josh, 33, faces up to 20 years of imprisonment and up to $250,000 in fines for each conviction — though, because possession is a lesser included offense, he will technically only be sentenced for the receipt crime.
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Josh had been on trial in federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas, since last week with his wife Anna and some family memberswatching daily from the front row. Dad Jim Bob and others attended Thursday to hear the verdict.
The guilty verdict comes about two years after Homeland Security agentsfirst searched Duggar’s Wholesale Motorcars in 2019, seizing two personal devices and a work desktop that became key to the case.
Joshwas subsequently indictedearlier this year on both of his charges, with prosecutors at his trial showing evidence that he had devised an elaborate hidden system on his work computer with which to view the child pornography over three days in May 2019.
Josh’s arrest was only the latest in a series of personal scandals that rocked the Duggar family: The reality show that first made them all famouswas canceled in 2015after a 2006 police report was released revealing he had been investigated for molesting the four younger girls when he was a boy and teenager.
Later in 2015,Josh also admittedto having a pornography addiction and being “unfaithful” in his marriage.
A spin-off of19 Kids and Countingthat followed the Duggar siblings, calledCounting On,was canceled after Josh’s arreston the child pornography charges.
source: people.com
