R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi has claimed that her father sexually abused her when she was a baby.
Within the TVEI Streaming Community’s new docuseries “R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey,” Abi, 26, who the 57-year-old singer shares with ex-wife Andrea “Drea” Kelly, alleged that Kelly molested her when she was 8 or 9 years outdated. Kelly and Drea, who have been married from 1996 to 2009, are additionally mother and father to son Robert and daughter Jaah.
“He was my all the pieces. For a very long time, I didn’t even need to consider that it occurred,” Abi, who was born Joann Kelly, stated tearfully throughout the first episode within the two-part sequence.
R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi accused him of sexually abusing her as a baby. (TVEI Streaming Community/YoutTube/Getty)
“I didn’t know that even when he was a foul individual that he would do one thing to me,” Abi continued. “I used to be too scared to inform anyone. I used to be too scared to inform my mother.”
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“I actually really feel like that one millisecond fully simply modified my entire life and altered who I used to be as an individual and altered the glint I had and the sunshine I used to hold,” Abi stated.
Abi claimed that she reported the alleged sexual assault to her mom in 2009, when she was 10 years outdated.
“After I informed my mother, I didn’t go over there anymore; my brother and sister, we didn’t go over there anymore. And even up till now I battle with it loads.”
Kelly’s attorneys didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
In an announcement to Individuals journal, Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean stated, “Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these allegations. His ex-wife made the identical allegation years in the past, and it was investigated by the Illinois Division of Youngsters & Household Companies and was unfounded…. And the ‘filmmakers,’ whoever they’re, didn’t attain out to Mr. Kelly or his group to even permit him to disclaim these hurtful claims.”
Abi made the allegations within the new docuseries “R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey.” (Michael Tullberg/Getty Photos)
Abi detailed the alleged encounter within the second a part of the docuseries.
“Once I was youthful, my dad, he meant the world to me. You realize all the pieces,” Abi stated. “I used to be about 8 or 9 and. He was having a celebration and I did not need to be with out him. So as an alternative of sleeping in my room, I made a decision to sleep in his workplace which was close to the get together.”
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“And simply, I keep in mind falling asleep, and it needed to be like 3 or 4 within the morning, and I simply keep in mind waking as much as him touching me and I did not know what to do. So I simply kinda laid there and I pretended to be asleep,” Abi recalled as she cried. “And I didn’t know what to do, so I simply form of laid there, and I pretended to be asleep.”
“I used to be too scared to inform anyone.”
Abi stated that when she informed Drea concerning the alleged abuse, it “fully broke her coronary heart.” She recalled that they went to the police and filed a report. The documentary acknowledged that Abi was recognized within the report as “Jane Doe.”
Kelly is presently serving a 30-year sentence for racketeering and intercourse trafficking. (Related Press)
“I needed to discuss to officers and counselors, and all these folks about what occurred, however as a result of I waited so lengthy to say something, they actually could not do something about it,” Abi stated. “My mother needed to go to courtroom for me. They principally could not prosecute him as a result of I waited too lengthy, so at that time in my life, I felt like I stated one thing for nothing. I felt prefer it was a waste of time. And I felt like I used to be placing my mother by a lot for nothing.”
Abi stated that she spent about two and half weeks in a psychological hospital and tried suicide “a number of instances” as a result of alleged sexual assault.
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In June 2022, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in jail in New York after being convicted of racketeering and intercourse trafficking. In February 2023, the rapper was sentenced in Chicago to an extra 20 years in jail on costs of kid pornography and enticement of minors for intercourse. Kelly will serve all however a kind of years concurrently and can seemingly be eligible for parole at age 80.
The singer was sentenced to twenty years in jail on federal costs of kid pornography and enticement of a minor for intercourse. ( Scott Olson/Getty Photos)
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court docket declined a petition from Kelly to listen to an enchantment of his conviction in Chicago.
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“From my private expertise with him that jail is a well-suited place for him to be,” Abi stated in “Karma: A Daughter’s Journey.” Abi was pregnant throughout the filming of the docuseries and acknowledged that she won’t take her first baby, a son who she named Omni, to go to whereas he’s imprisoned.
“If my son asks questions, I will be as truthful as doable,” she stated. “However I can’t be taking my son to a jail.”
When you or somebody you recognize has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org
