Woman charged with trying to extort the company behind ’19 Kids and Counting’

An Iowa woman has been charged after attempting to extort money from the company responsible for airing the popular reality television program 19 Kids and Counting, starring the Duggar family.

According to MSNBC, Teresa Hunt was arrested during a FBI sting Feb. 1 after insisting Discovery Communication, the parent company of the TLC network, either cancel the television program featuring the deeply religious family or to pay her $10,000

If the company did not comply with her demands, she threatened to release explicit photos of Amy Duggar, a first cousin of the family.

Hunt was nailed after telling a FBI agent posing as a Discovery Communication representative she had the photos in her possession and would sell if her demands were not met.

She then allegedly e-mailed the photos to the agent and demanded the $10,000 be wired into her bank account. In the messages, she added she had nothing against the young woman “except that's she's on a reality show and pretends to be a right-wing Christian and she's sleeping with a 56-year-old man."

Amy Duggar, the supposed subject of the photographs, denies any sort of relationship.

“It’s totally untrue. He is a longtime family friend who has always been supportive of my music career. He’s a good Christian and it’s upsetting that his generosity has been exploited like this," she said.

As it turns out, the pictures were not explicit at all, but snapshots of the woman with friends, RadarOnline reports.

RadarOnline claims the woman tried to sell the pictures to the gossip website. The website did not purchase the pictures and did not know at the time the woman selling them was attempting to extort TLC.