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TLC pulls Duggar show

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - TLC pulled the reality series 19 Kids and Counting from its schedule Friday, a move that follows reports of sexual misconduct allegations against one of the stars, Josh Duggar, when he was a juvenile.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - TLC pulled the reality series

19 Kids and Counting

from its schedule Friday, a move that follows reports of sexual misconduct allegations against one of the stars, Josh Duggar, when he was a juvenile.

Also Friday, Arkansas police said they had destroyed a record outlining a nearly decade-old investigation into Duggar, 27, a day after he resigned his role with a prominent conservative Christian group amid reports about the allegations.

The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which obtained the offense report before its destruction, reports Duggar was accused of inappropriate contact with five girls in 2002 and 2003. Duggar issued an apology Thursday on Facebook for unspecified bad behavior as a youth and resigned his role as executive director for FRC Action, the tax-exempt legislative action arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council.

"I would do anything to go back to those teen years and take different actions," Duggar wrote. "In my life today, I am so very thankful for God's grace, mercy and redemption."

No charges were filed against Duggar, and the report says investigators concluded the statute of limitations had passed, according to the newspaper.

Duggar is the oldest of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 children. TLC didn't address whether its popular show would return. The program had been set to air in reruns after wrapping its most recent season.

The family had been scheduled to appear in Philadelphia at a block party May 30 hosted by TLC at Penn's Landing. But the Duggars, formerly top-billed, have been removed from the flier.