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Mama June's daughter: McDaniel molested me

Jayme Deerwester
USA TODAY
Mama June Shannon's eldest daughter Anna (not pictured here) says she was the young victim of child molester Mark McDaniel.

The situation in the beleaguered Here Comes Honey Boo Boo camp keeps getting stranger — and sadder.

Less than a day after TLC pulled the reality show over allegations that newly single family matriarch Mama June Shannon was getting reacquainted with registered sex offender Mark McDaniel, there's a new development.

Shannon's oldest daughter, Anna Cardwell, who previously defended her mother, has now told Radar Online that McDaniel, 53, molested her 12 years ago, when she was eight.

"I believe she is seeing him and hanging around him," says Cardwell, who says she's hurt by her mother's current association with him.

The story began when TMZ.com posted photos of Mama June and McDaniel together Friday. He is free after a 10-year prison stint in Georgia for aggravated child molestation. Anna has confirmed that she was the victim in that case.

Mama June posted a video telling her side of the story Friday in which she confirmed TLC was stopping production of any future episodes and called TMZ's story untrue.

"I would never, ever put my kids in danger," she protested. Although she acknowledges a past relationship with McDaniel, she insists it's just that -- past.

But that's not enough for Anna.

"I think me and Mama's relationship may well be over," she told Radar.

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