R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi has claimed that she was sexually abused by her father when she was a child.
In the TVEI streaming network’s new docuseries “R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey,” Abbi, 26, whom the 57-year-old singer shares with ex-wife Andrea “Drea” Kelly, reveals that her 8-year-old daughter At times, she claimed that Kelly sexually abused her. Or 9 years old. Kelly and Drea, who were married from 1996 to 2009, are also parents to son Robert and daughter Jah.
“He was my everything. For a long time, I didn’t want to believe it had happened,” Abbi, whose real name is Joanne Kelly, tearfully said in the first episode of the two-part series. .
R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi has accused Kelly of sexually abusing her as a child. (TVEI Streaming Network/YouTube/Getty)
“Even if he was a bad person, I didn’t know he would do anything to me,” Abi continued. “I was too scared to tell anyone. I was too scared to tell my mother.”
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“I truly feel that that one millisecond completely changed my entire life, changed me as a person, changed the spark and light that I had,” Abi said.
Abi claimed that she reported the alleged sexual assault to her mother in 2009 when she was 10 years old.
“After I told my mother, I don’t go there anymore. My brother and sister don’t go there anymore. And to this day, I struggle with this very much.”
Kelly’s attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
“Kelly vehemently denies these allegations,” Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said in a statement to People magazine. The Department of Family Services investigated, but there was no basis for it.” …and the “filmmaker”, whoever it is, did not even contact Mr. Kelly or his team and allow him to deny these damaging claims. ”
Abi made this claim in the new documentary series, R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey. (Michael Thalberg/Getty Images)
Abi detailed the alleged encounter in the second part of the documentary series.
“When I was young, my father meant the world to me. You know everything,” Abi said. “I was about 8 or 9 years old. He was having a party and I didn’t want to be without him. So instead of sleeping in my room, I went to his office, which was near the party. I decided to sleep in.”
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“So, I remember falling asleep, I think it was 3 or 4 a.m., and I remember waking up to him touching me, but what the heck. I didn’t know what to do. So I just lay there and pretended to be asleep,” Abi recalled, crying. “And I didn’t know what to do, so I just lay there and pretended to be asleep.”
“I was too scared to tell anyone.”
Abi said she was “completely heartbroken” when she told Drea about the abuse allegations. She recalled that they went to the police and filed a complaint. In the documentary, Abi said she was identified in the report as “Jane Doe.”
Kelly is currently serving a 30-year sentence for extortion and sex trafficking. (Related news organizations)
“I had to talk to police officers and counselors and everyone else about what happened, but they couldn’t really do anything because I waited so long to say anything.” said Abi. “My mom had to go to court for me. They basically couldn’t prosecute him because I waited too long. So at that point in my life And I felt like I said something pointless. I felt like it was a waste of time.” And I felt like I was making my mom suffer unnecessarily. ”
Abi spent about two-and-a-half weeks in a psychiatric hospital for alleged sexual assault and said he attempted suicide “multiple times.”
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In June 2022, Kelly was found guilty of extortion and sex trafficking and sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York. In February 2023, the rapper was sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison in Chicago for child pornography and sexual enticement of a minor. Mr. Kelly will serve all but one year of that time and will likely be eligible for parole at age 80.
The singer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on federal charges of child pornography and sexual enticement of a minor. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Mr. Kelly’s request for an appeal hearing from his Chicago conviction.
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“From my personal experience with him, prison is the right place for him,” Abi said in Karma: A Daughter’s Journey. Abi was pregnant during the filming of the documentary and said she would not be allowed to visit her first child, a son she named Omni, while he was incarcerated.
“If my son asks a question, I’m going to answer it as honestly as I can,” she said. “But I’m not going to take my son to prison.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit rainn.org .
