Seeing many defunct pidgin processes

[Steven DuChene]

One of the accounts I have setup in pidgin is a sipe account for work.
When I start pidgin it always fails to connect with a SSL connection error.
In order to get it to connect I then have to repeatedly click on the 
Reconnect button that pops up when the connection fails.
Eventually it does connect and is useable but I see all of the following 
defunct processes in my process list.
This is with pidgin 2.10.11 running on Ubuntu 14.04

$ ps awx|grep pidgi
18580 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/pidgin
18581 ?        Sl     0:02 /usr/bin/pidgin.orig
18598 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18603 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18610 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18615 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18619 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18624 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18628 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18632 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18636 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18644 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18648 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18652 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18656 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18660 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18664 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18669 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18674 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18678 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18682 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18688 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18693 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18697 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18702 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18706 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18713 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18717 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18721 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18727 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18734 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18739 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
18752 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/pidgin.orig
18754 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/pidgin.orig