Jep Robertson from “Duck Dynasty” says someone sexually abused him when he was young.
With wife Jessica sitting next to him, the 37-year-old reality star and youngest son of family patriarch Phil Robertson told “Entertainment Tonight” the abuse began 31 years ago. The predator reportedly was an older female student and it occurred on the school bus.
Things got so bad that the 6-year-old started pretending to be sick to avoid school.
“Back then, the high-school students would ride on the same bus as the grade school,” Robertson said. “There was this girl there that was just real mean … I don’t know, but it a lot of things took place — scary stuff. It was tough.”
According to The Huffington Post, Robertson wrote about the incidents in his new book, “The Good, the Bad, and the Grace of God: What Honesty and Pain Taught Us About Faith, Family, and Forgiveness,” which he co-wrote with Jessica.
In a chapter called “The School Bus,” Robertson wrote: “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. 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.”
He wrote that the girl “tortured” and “hurt” him. Despite switching seats, he wrote the abuse happened “regularly.” The experience made him “confused and scared.”
A spokesperson from Duck Dynasty’s network, A&E, wasn’t immediately available, according to The Huffington Post.
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