Kendra Duggar’s Parents Relaunch GoFundMe to ‘Cover Displacement Expenses’ Amid Her, Joseph’s Arrests

After briefly being removed, Kendra Duggar’s parents have relaunched their GoFundMe campaign asking for donations to help them “cover displacement expenses.”

“My family is facing a difficult and urgent situation. We are in need to cover displacement expenses,” the GoFundMe’s creator and Kendra’s father, Paul Caldwell, wrote.

He also clarified that his family would “not be using these funds for are [sic] legal expenses.”

The campaign was originally created on April 4, but it was briefly removed at one point before being relaunched.

In an update on Tuesday, April 7, Caldwell added more information.

“My name [is] Paul Caldwell [and I] am overseeing the transfer of the funds to our family’s account,” the dad of nine wrote. “I am the father of the family receiving the money. The displacement fees will be for moving expenses, housing costs such as rent until we can find a place to stay more permanently.”

While Paul and his wife, Christina Caldwell, were never featured as main cast members on 19 Kids and Counting, their eldest daughter Kendra was when she married Joseph Duggar.

Caldwell’s GoFundMe came weeks after Joseph, 31, and Kendra, 27, were arrested.

As Globe previously reported, Joseph was arrested on March 18 and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior (molestation of a victim less than 12 years old) and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older.

“The 14-year-old victim participated in a forensic interview, where she disclosed several incidents involving Duggar that occurred during a family vacation in Panama City Beach when she was 9-years-old,” a press release from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office read on Facebook.

It also stated that Joseph “repeatedly asked her to sit on his lap” and “manipulated the victim’s underwear and grazed her genitals.”

On March 26, TMZ obtained an affidavit that allegedly stated that Joseph “admitted his intentions were not pure.”

However, he later pleaded not guilty to the sexual assault case.

Kendra was also arrested two days after her husband. She and Joseph were both charged with four counts of child endangerment and false imprisonment.

The couple shares four children together.

Neither Kendra nor Joseph have entered pleas regarding their Arkansas charges.