It’s been nearly three weeks since we first learned that June Shannon is dating convicted child molester Mark McDaniel, yet somehow new sad, stunning revelations keep emerging every day.
Last night, McDaniel’s victim and June’s eldest daughter, Anna Shannon, opened up about the scandal in an interview and revealed some new and truly shocking details.
First Anna revealed that June Shannon didn’t believe her when she first reported McDaniel’s abuse:
“My mama didn’t believe me for a while,” Anna said. “And she was like, ‘Why would you do that? Why would you do that to me? I can’t believe you would do that!’ I was like, mama he did it to me!”
“She didn’t believe me and she was like, ‘I’m done talking about this now, I’m done talking about this.'”
Authorities intervened only when 8-year-old Anna reported McDaniel to her teachers.
Later in the interview, Anna revealed that part of the reason her mother is so sympathetic to McDaniel is that she believes McDaniel is the father of Lauryn Shannon, Anna’s 15-year-old half-sister:
“[Mark] was supposed to be [Lauryn’s] so-called father or whatever it is,” Anna said in the interview. “Mama does not know who Pumpkin’s dad is and Pumpkin believes it’s Mark.”
“Mama is making her believe that someone who did that to me is her father,” Anna says. “Now Pumpkin hates me for it.”
So “Mama June” has not only sided with her daughter’s molester, she’s also convinced one of her other daughters that Anna is lying. Like we said, sadder every day.