--- title: Duck Dynasty: Jep Robertson Says He Was Molested as a Child description: He details the alleged abuse in his upcoming memoir. canonical: https://time.com/3915326/duck-dynasty-child-abuse-claims/ author: Katy Osborn article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-10T02:39:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:04:00.441Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Duck Dynasty's Jep Robertson Reveals Claim of Child Abuse og:description: He details the alleged abuse in his upcoming memoir og:url: https://time.com/3915326/duck-dynasty-child-abuse-claims/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdde426b9302e652/698853d5524fc01f8cdf3094/jep-robertson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: From left, television personality Jep Robertson of 'Duck Dynasty' arrives at the Miss USA 2013 pageant on June 16, 2013, in Las Vegas. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Duck Dynasty's Jep Robertson Reveals Claim of Child Abuse twitter:description: He details the alleged abuse in his upcoming memoir twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdde426b9302e652/698853d5524fc01f8cdf3094/jep-robertson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Duck Dynasty_’s Jep Robertson Reveals Claim of Child Abuse > Sponsored content. 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From left, television personality Jep Robertson of 'Duck Dynasty' arrives at the Miss USA 2013 pageant on June 16, 2013, in Las Vegas.Jeff Bottari—AP by [Katy Osborn](https://time.com/author/katy-osborn/) ## Katy Osborn Jun 10, 2015 2:39 AM UTC The youngest son of the _Duck Dynasty_ clan has [spoken out](http://www.etonline.com/news/165819%5Fduck%5Fdynasty%5Fstar%5Fjep%5Frobertson%5Ftalks%5Fchildhood%5Fsexual%5Fabuse%5Fclaims/) with a claim that he was molested by an older girl in grade school. Jep Robertson, 37, opened up in an interview with _Entertainment Tonight_, claiming he was molested by a high school girl on a school bus when he was six years old. The interview came in the lead-up to the release of Robertson’s memoir, written with his wife, in which he goes into more detail about the alleged abuse. “She’d take my hands and push them up under her shirt and tell me I was tickling her,” Robertson writes in his memoir. “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.” This is the first time Robertson has spoken publicly about the claim, admitting that while he told his wife, he wasn’t able to speak openly about it with his parents until recently. The book, _The Good, the Bad, and the Grace of God: What Honesty and Pain Taught Us About Faith, Family, and_ Forgiveness, will be in stores on June 23, just one day before _Duck Dynasty_ returns to A&E for its 8th season. \[[_ET_](http://www.etonline.com/news/165819%5Fduck%5Fdynasty%5Fstar%5Fjep%5Frobertson%5Ftalks%5Fchildhood%5Fsexual%5Fabuse%5Fclaims/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3915326/duck-dynasty-child-abuse-claims/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3915326/duck-dynasty-child-abuse-claims/"},"headline":"Duck Dynasty’s Jep Robertson Reveals Claim of Child Abuse","datePublished":"2015-06-10T02:39:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:04:00.441Z","description":"He details the alleged abuse in his upcoming memoir","url":"https://time.com/3915326/duck-dynasty-child-abuse-claims/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdde426b9302e652/698853d5524fc01f8cdf3094/jep-robertson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katy Osborn","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katy-osborn/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfdde426b9302e652/698853d5524fc01f8cdf3094/jep-robertson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"From left, television personality Jep Robertson of 'Duck Dynasty' arrives at the Miss USA 2013 pageant on June 16, 2013, in Las Vegas.","caption":"From left, television personality Jep Robertson of 'Duck Dynasty' arrives at the Miss USA 2013 pageant on June 16, 2013, in Las Vegas.","creditText":"Jeff Bottari—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3915326/duck-dynasty-child-abuse-claims/","name":"Duck Dynasty’s Jep Robertson Reveals Claim of Child Abuse"}}]}] ```