Toby Willis, who is a star of the TLC reality show The Willis Family, has been arrested for allegedly raping an underage girl.

According to TMZ, the 46-year-old was taken into custody on Friday and charged with one count of rape of a child. He is being held without bail.

The married television star is the father of 12 children .

Toby Willis, star of reality show The Willis Family, has been arrested for raping an underage girl

Willis and his wife Brenda have 12 children, ranging in age from 24 to five years old. All children's names begin with the letter 'J', just like the scandal-plagued Duggar family

While Willis and his family live in Nashville, Tennessee, investigators reportedly picked up Willis in Kentucky after he attempted to flee from law enforcement.

Willis is being held in the Muhlenberg County Jail in Kentucky without bond as a fugitive from justice.

He will be moved to Cheatham County Jail in his hometown, where he will also be held without bond.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations initially began looking into the matter at the end of August.

Over the course of their investigation, they claim to have discovered that Willis had a sexual encounter with an underage girl 12 years ago.

Willis (pictured here with wife Brenda) allegedly had sex with the underage girl 12 years ago

The couple moved their 12 children from Chicago to Nashville to pursue a career as the country music band The Willis Clan

The family went on to be featured on a reality show on both the American County cable network and TLC, who ran The Willis Family for two seasons before canceling it in May

A source close to the show revealed that the network did a detailed background check on the couple and there were no red flags prior to the criminal investigation.

TLC's The Willis Family followed the father, his wife Brenda and their family country band The Willis Clan.

Willis and his family got their first taste of fame when they reached the quarterfinals in season nine in America's Got Talent in 2014.

The Willis Family aired for two seasons on TLC. The family was informed in May that the show had been canceled.

That same month the family released an album called Heaven.

Network reps have said they are 'shocked to hear the news.'

As of Saturday, the network has removed all links to the show from the official TLC website.

This is not the first allegation of sexual abuse to arise from a TLC show.

Josh Duggar of 19 Kids And Counting was recently investigated for molesting five underage girls, including his sisters. The show has since been canceled.

Although they share similar Christian values and a clan of children whose names begin with the letter 'J', the Willis family painted themselves as a less restrictive household.

TLC network reps have said they are 'shocked to hear the news' of Willis' arrest and have since removed all links to the show from the network's official website

Josh Duggar of 19 Kids And Counting, also a TLC show, was recently investigated for molesting five underage girls, including his sisters (pictured on March 11, 2013)

Although they share similar Christian values to the Duggars and a large clan of children, the Willis family painted themselves as a less restrictive household

Premarital sex and alcohol were banned in the Willis household, but oldest daughter Jessica, 23, said the parents happily allowed their children to date.

'When it comes to relationships, it's not like, "You cannot do this, and you have to do back by this time, and you have to be a certain age,' she told PEOPLE last year.

'Every person is different. I think the two main things are being really open and honest and having good communication with my parents.'

Brenda said her and Toby's key to raising their children was 'staying true to what the Bible says'.

'We try to just kind of...live that in a very loving, nonjudgmental way without pushing that on anyone else,' she told the magazine.

The family, originally from Chicago, moved to Nashville in 2001 to pursue music and have since appeared at the Gran Ole Opry.

The large clan is an accomplished one, made up of internationally ranked Irish dancers and singers, national swing dance champions and state wrestling champions, according to USA Today.

There's Jessica, 24, Jeremiah, 23, Jennifer, 21, Jeanette, 20, Jackson, 1998, Jedidiah, 17, Jasmine, 15, Juliette, 13, Jamie, 11, Joy-Anna, 9, Jaeger, 6, and five-year-old Jada.

'I expect my kids to be the best, but the best involves a lifetime commitment,' Willis, a former state champion wrestler, said about his family in the show's premiere.

The large clan is an accomplished one, made up of internationally ranked Irish dancers and singers, national swing dance champions and state wrestling champions

Willis was a state championship wrestler and received a scholarship to Northwestern University. Brenda (pictured here together) was his high school sweetheart

Brenda, who homeschools all 12 of her children, said her and Toby's key to raising their children was 'staying true to what the Bible says'

'If we did things halfway it would be impossible to reach our goals.'

Before they made their reality television debut, the Willis family name was associated with tragedy and a bribery scandal that rocked the state of Illinois.

Willis' parents, Pastor Duane 'Scott” and Janet Willis, lost their six youngest children in a horrific traffic fire in 1994.

The family's minivan had been struck by a piece of debris that fell from a truck when it suddenly erupted in flames, according to the Chicago Tribune.

It was later revealed the truck's driver had received his license by bribing one of Governor George Ryan's secretary of state offices.

The tragic crash grabbed national headlines and revealed the bribes-for-licenses scheme that Ryan had used to boost his campaign funds.

Gov Ryan was sentenced to five years in prison, and the Willis family received a $100million court settlement.

The money allowed Willis, whose wrestling career ended due to injury, to retire from his job as a computer programmer and focus on his family's musical career.

Willis is being held in the Muhlenberg County Jail in Kentucky without bond as a fugitive from justice. He will be moved to Cheatham County Jail in his hometown