By Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter

A woman who tried to extort the company that airs the Duggar family reality show was busted by an FBI sting and Breaking Celebrity News has exclusive details about the situation. 

Teresa Hunt was arrested and is facing federal charges of extortion after allegedly trying to get Discovery Communications, parent company of the network TLC that airs the Duggar family’s 19 Kids and Counting, to pay her $10,000 or cancel the Duggar family show to keep her from releasing what she claimed were shocking photos of Amy Duggar, a first cousin of the family.

The woman contacted Breaking Celebrity News to sell the photographs, which were merely harmless snaps rather than incriminating, damning photos, and we reviewed the pictures but did not purchase them. Breaking Celebrity News had no knowledge that the woman was trying to extort TLC.

The deeply religious Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar chronicle their family’s lives on the TLC show, and their 19 children are often show