Duck Dynasty Brother Reveals He Was Molested By Girl As a Young Boy

By: Laura Meyers

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, discussing the release of his new book, Duck Dynasty’s baby brother, Jep Robertson, talks the times he was molested by an older female student when he was in grade school.

“I was 6 and it was on a school bus and it was an older girl,” Jep said. “Back then the high school students would ride on the same bus as the grade school. There was this girl there that was just real mean…I don’t know, but it was a lot of things took place — scary stuff. It was tough.”

In the book, he writes, “An older girl started sitting next to me. She seemed sweet at first. She’d come sit beside me, like a motherly figure almost. I remember her being sweet and taking care of me. I liked to sit in the back so she’d come sit with me.”

“After a while the girl started doing strange things,” Jep writes. “She’d take my hands and push them up under her shirt and tell me I was tickling her. Then she started making me pull down my pants. It was awkward. I didn’t know what was going on, but I knew something wasn’t right.”

Jep said it was easier for him to keep the abuse a secret as a boy.

“I don’t know if I necessarily consciously wanted to [keep it a secret],” he said. “I was more embarrassed. I think in the end I didn’t want my mom and dad to think they did anything wrong, and they didn’t. It was just one of those things that happened, and I think it took me a long time to realize what had happened and how it affected me. Like I’ve said before I don’t think anything that happened to me made me do anything bad. I hear people say that. I do think it affected the way I look at certain things. I was really scared of girls and just women in general, but I think God had a plan for that. I know it sounds weird but it’s helped me now that I have a bunch of girls. I think it helps us really communicate with them on what’s right and what’s wrong — where you should be touched or not be touched. It’s a tough thing to go through, but you just kind of live and go though it and make the most of it.”