Joshua Rendon told TMZ that though the pregnancy was unexpected, the couple is “extremely excited for the baby.” He says Ebony Jackson-Rendon is 10 weeks pregnant.

Ebony and Josh were arrested in September after the Department of Human Services raided their Jacksonville, Arkansas home and found feces, flies and maggots covering the premises.

Police also found marijuana and drug paraphernalia at their home, and subsequently arrested the couple — charging them with endangering the welfare of a minor possession of drug paraphernalia, maintaining a drug premise and unauthorized use of another’s property to facilitate a crime.

TMZ reports DHS still has custody of Ebony and Joshua’s daughter Jocelyn, 2, with the couple seeing her only during supervised visits. Their case is still pending.

Ebony entered rehab in November to get psychological help for having suicidal thoughts and self-harming with marijuana.

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Will Ebony and Josh get their lives on track for baby number two?

– Kaydi Poirier

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It will be at least 30 days before Josh and Ebony can get their 2-year-old daughter Jocelyn back!

The Jacksonville, Ark. Police Department raided the home of 16 & Pregnant stars Ebony Jackson-Rendon and her husband Joshua Rendon on Sept. 20. Ebony and Josh were arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor (their 2-year-old daughter Jocelyn) and possession of drug paraphernalia and Jocelyn was taken away. When HollyBaby.com spoke with Ebony on Sept. 21, she told us exclusively that Jocelyn’s in foster care, but that they plan to sign custody over to Ebony’s own mother or Josh’s parents. Now, DHS explains to HollyBaby.com the process involved in child abuse and neglect cases similar to Jocelyn’s!

“Anyone can call into our child abuse hot line. The case is accepted for investigation,” Amy Webb, Director of Communication at Arkansas DHS tells us. “Our case workers go out and our number one priority is to assess the safety of the child. If our case workers believe the child is not safe, we can place them on a 72 hour hold and take them into our care.”

When the child is taken away from the home, DHS tries to place the child with another family member. “We make that effort because we believe that it’s better for the child to be with a family member they know,” explains Amy. “It’s already traumatic enough to be taken from your home. We want to try and make the transition as easy as possible for the child. We try to do that on the front end [of the investigation].”

Next, DHS has to deal with a series of court hearings. “We have 30 days to complete an abuse or neglect investigation,” reveals Amy. “Within 72 hours of taking the child into our care, we go to court and make a verbal request for an emergency court order to keep the child. If the judge rules that we can take emergency custody, then we have five days to go before a judge for a probable cause hearing. During that hearing the judge will decide if the safety concerns still do exist. If the judge decides they do exist, then we will continue to have custody of the child until we have a full hearing.”

During the 30 day period, DHS does all they can to investigate the circumstances of the case. “We serve as a safety net for the child, so we look at their environment, the home, we assess the safety issues that took us there to begin with,” says Amy. “We may interview the child, we may interview others who know the child or the family. We may interview the parents.”

Overall, DHS just wants to establish “if the child is returned to the home, will they be safe?” They also really try to reunite families.

So for the next month, Josh and Ebony not only have to get their acts together — but prove that they can take care of Jocelyn. If they don’t, they won’t get their daughter back!

- Lindsey DiMattina

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The arrest report reads that ‘every room inside the residence had human and dog feces on the floors, walls and clothing!’ How HORRIFYING!

This is completely disturbing! Former 16 & Pregnant stars Ebony Jackson-Rendon, 19, and her husband Joshua Rendon, 19, were arrested on Sept. 20 when the Department of Human Services (DHS) raided their Jacksonville, Arkansas. home and found fecal matter covering the premises. Ebony and Josh were both slammed with four charges: endangering the welfare of a minor (their 2-year-old daughter, Jocelyn), possession of drug paraphernalia, maintaining a drug premise and unauthorized use of anothers property to facilitate a crime. And, too top it all off, DHS took Jocelyn into their custody!

Someone called to complain about the living conditions of the house to DHS, and when police entered on a warrant, that’s when they found the home in such disgusting conditions. “Every room in the residence had human and dog feces on the floors, walls and clothing,” reads the arrest report. “The house was full of flies and in some areas, maggots.”

Police also found “1 gram of synthetic marijuana along with several empty packages of synthetic marijuana [and] paraphernalia in the form of a variety of smoking devices (pipes).

Little Jocelyn was immediately taken — and animal control “retrieved” three family dogs.

UPDATE: Ebony is pregnant again!

- Lindsey DiMattina

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