Amy Duggar Says 'Justice Has Been Served' After Woman Pleads Guilty To Attempted Extortion

July 25 2012, Published 1:00 p.m. ET
By Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Entertainment Editor
The woman charged with attempting to extort the Duggar family and the parent company of the network that airs the TLC hit show 19 Kids and Counting pleaded guilty on Wednesday and Amy Duggar, her intended target, exclusively told Breaking Celebrity News that she believes “justice has been served.”
Teresa Hunt entered her guilty plea to one count of extortion in federal court in Davenport, Iowa.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Hunt was arrested in February following a dramatic investigation that began after she pitched what she deemed “incriminating and damning” photos of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s niece Amy and her older music career mentor, James Garrett to various media outlets, including Breaking Celebrity News.
Teresa then reached out to Discovery Communications, parent company of TLC, to pay her $10,000 or cancel the family show to keep her from releasing the "shocking photos" of Amy and James, who is 21 years her senior.
She was busted in an FBI sting when an undercover agent contacted Hunt and told her he was a Discovery Communications representative and she told the agent that she had three $3,000 contracts from outlets who were interested in purchasing the pictures. Hunt emailed the pictures to the agent as proof and then demanded the $10,000 be wired to her bank account or she would release the photos.
“I think that justice has been served,” Amy Duggar exclusively told Breaking Celebrity News.
“It is a sad situation and it didn’t affect me at all,” she said. “I laughed it off completely because the