By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

An Iowa woman who tried to extort the company that airs 19 Kids and Counting, the Duggar family reality show, was sentenced to house arrest by a federal judge on Thursday.

The deeply religious Duggars were at the center of the extortion scandal when Teresa Hunt claimed that family cousin Amy Duggar was having an affair with Missouri singer James Garrett, a man 21 years older, and offered Breaking Celebrity News and other media outlets what she called "incriminating and damning" photos of the couple for $10,000.

As Breaking Celebrity News exclusively reported in February, Hunt was arrested after trying to ger Discovery Communications, parent company of the TLC network that airs 19 Kids and Counting, to pay her $10,000 or cancel the Duggar show to stop her from releasing the photos.

Hunt, of Bettendorf, Iowa, had pleaded guilty in July to one count of extortion. On Dec. 6, she was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Davenport to one year of supervised release which includes four months of home confinement and a mental health evaluation.

Earlier this year, Garrett showed Breaking Celebrity Newsthe alleged racy pictures, which were anything but incriminating to Amy Duggar.  "I wanted the word to see the photos so that there would be no question left in anyone's mind about any sort of relationship other than a platonic, working friendship between Amy and I," Garrett told Breaking Celebrity News. The singer, 56, stars in a John Denver tribute show in Branson.