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'It's All Mama's Fault!': Honey Boo Boo's Anna Cardwell Blames Mama June

"It's all Mama's fault!" sobbed Anna Cardwell, as she sat down with Entertainment Tonight this week and revealed that her younger sister Pumpkin watched from the bed when Mama June's boyfriend molested her at eight. Cardwell is now 20 years old.

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This week, the media went into frenzy when a report revealed that Mama June is dating registered sex offender Mark McDaniel, who Anna 'Chickadee' Cardwell said was the one who abused her when she was just eight years old.

Now, Cardwell is slamming Mama June for allowing the man who molested her as a child, near her two younger sisters, Honey Boo Boo and Pumpkin.

In the ET exclusive interview airing tonight, Anna sobbed and said, "She has to live with it. She brung the past back and now she can't get it away. It gives me a lot of emotions. I'm mad. I'm upset."

"I feel betrayed. I feel very hurt. That's the main thing that I am - I feel very hurt that Mama let him come around," added the 20-year-old. "It's like she's happy. She's smiling and laughing and giggling when he's around."

Cardwell told ET that she even pleaded Mama June to stay away from McDaniel, 53, who recently completed a 10-year sentence in jail.

The interview comes after snapshots surfaced showing "Mama" June Shannon with the 53-year-old sex offender.

"I feel betrayed," Anna told ET's Nischelle Turner. "He did this to me. Why would you let him come around the girls, knowing what he did?"

Aside from Cardwell, Mama June's three other younger daughters include Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, 9, Lauryn "Pumpkin" Shannon, 14, and Jessica "Chubbs" Shannon.

"Mama's not supposed to be around him! She just knows!" said Cardwell of the situation. "And she let him get around Alana and Pumpkin!"

Cardwell also told Turner the pain she felt after her own mother didn't consider her feelings when news broke out of the scandal, which resulted in TLC cancelling "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" last Friday, Oct. 24.

Cardwell added that she now fears for her sisters.

A police report said that at the time Cardwell was molested by McDaniel, her mother's live-in boyfriend in 2002, Pumpkin was forced to watch from the side.

According to Spalding County Superior Court documents which was obtained by RadarOnline, Lauryn was three at the time McDaniel molested her sister, Anna, reportedly on at least one occasion.

"Anna...stated that her sister, Lauryn, is in the bed with them when this is going on," the incident report said.

However, Lauryn denied the report's account and took to Instagram to slam the "false" allegations.

The 2003 police report also revealed how Anna told her elementary school teacher what had happened. Anna said the deed was done while Mama June was at work.

Anna told authorities at the time that she had done the "S word" with McDaniel, the report revealed. She also said McDaniel touched her inappropriately, made her touch him inappropriately, as well as forced her to perform a sex act on him. He would not stop even if Anna had told him to.

McDaniel was indicted for child molestation in June 2003, as well as aggravated child molestation and aggravated sexual battery in Henry County. However, the case was quickly dropped. 

But in Spalding County, he was successfully indicted for rape, child molestation, aggravated child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes and aggravated sexual battery. 

Mama June's boyfriend was eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was released in March and had been seeing Mama June again since then. 

Anna revealed to People magazine earlier this week that when she told her mother did not believe her when she told Mama June about what McDaniel did.

"A week or so after it happened, I talked to Mama and she was upset, crying and saying, 'I don't believe you, I don't believe you, why would you do this to me?'" said Anna.

"And I was like, 'Mama, he did that to me and I can't do anything about it. You were never there to see it. You were always at work.'"

Anna has fortunately moved on. She is now married with a two-year-old daughter. She said she will not let the Mama June and the boyfriend near her child. 

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