Heartbreaking.
That’s the only word we can think of to describe these past events.
Honey Boo Boo‘s Mama June‘s daughter Anna Cardwell has bravely spoken about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Mama June’s child molester boyfriend Mark McDaniel.
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But new reports have it that Anna wasn’t the only one who was traumatized by that man — a 3-year-old Lauryn “Pumpkin” Shannon was too.
The reports are coming from new documents from Spalding County Superior Court that reveal in 2002 there was an incident where Pumpkin was in the same bed where Mark molested a then 8-year-old Anna, and Pumpkin witnessed the entire thing.
We’re choosing not to run the explicit details of the incident.
Pumpkin has been pretty consistent, though, of vehemently denying that her mother’s boyfriend is actually the monster that everyone knows he is.
Pumpkin even accused her Uncle Poodle of making up all of these stories writing online:
“THIS HERE IS UNCLE POODLE AND HIS MAN. THEY ARE UPSET BC THE SHOW WAS CANCELLED AND THEY NO LONGER HAVE MONEY. THEY HAVE BEEN SELLING FALSE STORIES AND MAKING MONEY. HE TOLD ME EARLIER TODAY THAT HE HOPED MY MOM GOT CANCER AND DIED OF A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH. GET THIS HE IS 30 YEARS OLD TELLING A 14 YEAR OLD THIS. EVERY STORY THATS OUT RIGHT NOW HE HAS PUT OUT AND ITS ALL FALSE. HE JUST THINKS IT ALL FUN AND GAMES SELLING FAMILY OUT BUT KARMA IS A BITCH TRUST ME I KNOW HER PERSONALLY. SO IMMA SIT BACK AND LAUGH BC WHEN THE TRUTH COMES OUT YOUR F*CKED.”
She also said last week:
“The story is not true. My mom left Mark 10 years ago. They haven’t seen nor talked [to each other] in 10 years.”
However that was quickly viewed as false.
These stories are frankly disturbing, but hopefully they will lead to some sort of resolution for these traumatized children, far away from harm ever again.
We can barely stomach the information that’s being released.
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