TLC Removes 19 Kids and Counting From Schedule Following Molestation Claims

Network faces second abuse controversy in 7 months

Here we go again: for the second time in seven months, TLC is embroiled in a child molestation scandal involving the stars of one of its most popular reality shows. 

On Thursday, In Touch Weekly reported that Josh Duggar, the oldest son of the Duggar family from TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, had molested several underage girls when he was a teenager in 2002 and 2003 (including, according to TMZ, his own sisters).

At the time, his father, Jim Bob Duggar, waited more than a year to contact Arkansas police, and later refused to allow police to interview Josh when they opened a felony investigation in 2006.

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