Honey Boo Boo: Mark Anthony McDaniel Not The First Child Molester Mama June Has Dated

Mark Anthony Daniel is now famous for inadvertently bringing an end to Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, but the convicted child molester is actually not the first sex offender that Mama June has dated.

On Friday, TLC announced that it was canceling the popular reality show amid allegations that June “Mama June” Shannon was dating Daniel, a convicted child molester. Mama June denied the reports.

“I want to make a post trying to clear up the rumors,” Shannon said Thursday. “(R)emember you can’t believe everything you read! (People) sell stories to the tabloid everyday that r false! It isnt true i promise my kids r #1 priority over anything else and I would never put them in danger period over this or anything else they r my life this is my past I left him 10 yrs ago for it and I wouldn’t go back.”

But TMZ published photos that appeared to show the two snuggled in bed together, and soon after TLC announced that Here Comes Honey Boo Boo was canceled.

Mama June’s alleged relationship with Mark Anthony Daniel has now drawn attention to past relationships. Mama June actually dated another child molester, 35-year-old Michael Anthony Ford. He and Mama June dated briefly, with Ford fathering her daughter Jessica “Chubbs” Shannon.

In 2005, Ford served more than two years in prison for sexually exploiting a child over the internet. He served more than two years in prison, and was put on the sex offender registry after release.

Mama June has dated other men in trouble with the law. David Dunn, the father of her daughter Anna, was convicted of stealing a handgun in 1995, and in 1998 was sentenced for stealing cigarettes.

But the crimes of Mama June’s latest boyfriend are much more serious. Mark Anthony Daniel was convicted of forcing oral sex on an 8-year-old child, spending 10 years in prison.