--- description: A DHS employee called 911 outside the Duggar residence title: Officials Were Denied Entry to Duggar Home After Molestation Scandal image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2461295801ea0aa/6988520af887dca318e90a9d/josh-duggar1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Officials Called 911 After Being Denied Entry to Duggars' Home by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2015 5:51 PM CUT  Josh Duggar speaks during the 42nd annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 28, 2015. Josh Duggar speaks during the 42nd annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 28, 2015.Kris Connor—Getty Images by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2015 5:51 PM CUT State officials called 911 after being denied entry to the home of the “19 Kids and Counting” family just eight days after the Josh Duggar molestation scandal surfaced. [In Touch](http://www.intouchweekly.com/ "undefined") magazine reported Wednesday that a Arkansas Department of Human Services worker contacted police after not being allowed inside the family’s Tontitown dwelling on May 27. A DHS employee is heard asking for help in an audio recording obtained by the magazine which aired exclusively on NBC’s TODAY on Thursday. “Well, we’re, um, Washington County DHS office and we’re out here to, uh, we have, uh, an investigation, and, um, I guess they’re, uh… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/duggar-family-scandal-911-called-after-dhs-staff-blocked-n373496?cid=par-time-article%5F20150611 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3918075/duggar-home-911/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3918075/duggar-home-911/"},"headline":"Officials Called 911 After Being Denied Entry to Duggars' Home","datePublished":"2015-06-11T17:51:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:08:19.970Z","description":"Officials tried to visit the Duggars' home after the molestation scandal broke","url":"https://time.com/3918075/duggar-home-911/","keywords":["Television","celebrity","19 Kids and Counting","josh duggar"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2461295801ea0aa/6988520af887dca318e90a9d/josh-duggar1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta2461295801ea0aa/6988520af887dca318e90a9d/josh-duggar1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Josh Duggar","caption":"Josh Duggar","creditText":"Kris Connor—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3918075/duggar-home-911/","name":"Officials Called 911 After Being Denied Entry to Duggars' Home"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Duggar Sisters Say Josh Isn't A 'Child Molester'","description":"In a Fox News special, Jessa Duggar Seewald and Jill Duggar Dillard defended brother Josh, who is accused of inappropriately touching his sisters.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/XKW9xgSR/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-06T02:22:07.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XKW9xgSR.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3918075/duggar-home-911/","duration":"PT1M18S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3918075/duggar-home-911/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```