FOUR more witnesses will be deposed in Joe Duggar’s court case, months after he was accused of molesting a nine-year-old girl.
The Counting On alum, who remains out of jail on a $600,000 bond, was represented by his lawyer on Tuesday morning in a Florida hearing.
Joe, 31, is facing two charges of lewd or lascivious behavior involving a child under the age of 12, stemming from an alleged 2020 incident in Panama City Beach.
His defense attorney, Albert J. Sauline, appeared in front of Judge Brantley S. Clark, Jr., and explained that his client was skipping court.
Sauline said he had filed a “waiver of presence” for Joe, although he didn’t explain why.
He said the state had received all of the discovery in the case ahead of his upcoming trial after Joe pleaded not guilty.
“There are only five witnesses listed in the case, one of which is of course the juvenile alleged victim, so realistically we’re looking at only four witnesses to be deposed minus any court order allowing a deposition of the alleged victim,” the lawyer said.
He was granted a return date of
September 15 at 9am.
According to an arrest affidavit, a 14-year-old girl participated in a forensic interview where she disclosed that
Joe had molested her when she was just nine.