Hulu Pulls ’19 Kids And Counting’ Amid Duggar Molestation Scandal

Josh Duggar, the eldest son of the family featured on TLC's "19 Kids and Counting," apologized after a 2006 police report alleging he molested underage girls when he was a teenager surfaced.
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Hulu, the popular online video streaming service, has ended its relationship with TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” amid a scandal over allegations that star Josh Duggar fondled underage girls when he was a teenager.

Hulu confirmed Thursday to Hollywood news site TheWrap that it had decided to pull the series. Episodes of “19 Kids and Counting” still appeared on the site Thursday afternoon, but any attempts to play the episodes returned a 404 error page.

TLC announced Friday that it had removed all reruns of “19 Kids and Counting” from the air, following the publication of a police report that showed police investigated Duggar in 2006 for allegedly molesting five girls from 2002-2003. He was 14 at the time.

But TLC has yet to make a definitive statement about the show’s future, even as at least nine companies have decided to pull their advertising from the show.

Duggar issued a statement last week that said he “acted inexcusably” as a teenager but didn’t elaborate further. He also resigned his position as executive director of FRC Action, the anti-gay Family Research Council’s lobbying shop.

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