Mark McDaniel was convicted back in 2004

Oct 23, 2014 12:46 GMT  ·  By

Reality star Mama June is looking for love, but she appears to be looking in all the wrong places. Since her split from Sugar Bear, Mama June has been on the prowl, looking for a new man, and the reports that are coming in about her newest conquest are not pretty.

TMZ claims that June is now hanging out with a man by the name of Mark McDaniel, a 53-year-old who  was convicted back in 2004 for aggravated child molestation. The worst part? The victim attacked by Mark is one of June's relatives.

McDaniel is a registered offender after he served 10 years for forcing himself on an 8-year-old child

Prosecutors said in their case against McDaniel that he forced himself on an 8-year-old child. While the source will refuse to name the child, they will confirm that it is a person that June has come into contact with.

For his crime, McDaniel has served 10 years in prison and was released in March this year. As you might expect, he is now a registered offender in a state of Georgia, but that didn't stop Mama June from going on dates with him.

Mama June has been sneaking off and meeting with McDaniels for months

The “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” star has apparently been seeing McDaniel in secret over the course of several months, sneaking away from the TV cameras in order to meet up with him. She seems to be pretty infatuated with him, as sources claim that she's been buying him various gifts.

Photographic proof of one of their encounters has emerged online, and in it, Mama June and McDaniel can be seen sitting together on what seems to be a hotel bed. It was reportedly taken a few weeks ago when the two were hanging out in a hotel room with various guests.

The producers of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” claimed ignorance when they were contacted and issued an official statement in which they claimed that “TLC is not currently in production on HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO.  We are very concerned about this new information and are reassessing the future of the series.”

Mama June made headlines last month when she split up from longtime partner Sugar Bear. At the time, there was a big scandal in which June accused Bear of cheating on her after she caught him perusing online dating sites and setting up profiles, describing himself as a single man in search of a woman.