Who cares about child abuse when there’s money to be made?

Arguably one of the most upsetting things to come out of Toddlers and Tiaras — itself extremely distressing — was Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, featuring Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson and her family.

Alana was six years old when the show began, and nine when it was unceremoniously cancelled by its network TLC after reports surfaced that her mother, June “Mama June” Shannon was dating a convicted child molestor who had recently been released after a 10-year stint in prison.

Even more horrifyingly, the child the man in question, Mark McDaniel, had molested was Shannon’s own eldest daughter Anna Marie “Chickadee” Cardwell, who was eight at the time.

June “Mama June” Shannon. Image via Instagram.

Although Shannon denied that she was seeing McDaniel (despite photographs being published of them together), TLC pulled the program in October 2014 and didn’t air the remaining six months worth of new episodes.

Now, June Shannon is claiming that a version of the show is returning to TV.

She posted the information to Honey Boo Boo’s Facebook page in a rambling and sometimes nonsensical comment that daringly eschewed all punctuation.

Most comments were positive and employed the word “y’all” quite a lot, but a few questioned how any network could overlook the fact that June Shannon was seeing the man who served a long prison sentence for molesting her little girl.

It’s clear, though, that there’s still a huge audience for the show, an audience that’s willing to ignore the fact that Shannon has clearly endangered her children and is continuing to exploit them by letting their lives be filmed.

Watch Anna Marie Cardwell discussing her mother’s attitude towards her abuser… Post continues after video.

Does allowing Shannon to return to TV screens makes the network and the viewers complicit in diminishing the crime that was committed against Cardwell by allowing her mother to have a platform?

As Honey Boo Boo herself would say, “a dollar makes me holler”.

Do you think the family should be back on our screens?