R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi accuses her father of abusing her when she was a child

UNITED STATES – New accusations against R. Kelly. His daughter Joann Lee Kelly, known under the pseudonym Buku Abi, speaks publicly about the abuse she allegedly suffered during her childhood at the hands of her father.

These revelations are made in a two-part documentary from TVEI Streaming Network, Karma : A Daughter’s Journey. We learn that Buku Abi, 26, was abused by the singer when she was a child, and that she first reported it to her mother Andrea in 2009, when she was 10 years old. .

“He was everything to me. For a long time, I didn’t even want to believe it had happened. I didn’t know that even if he was a bad person, he would do something to meshe says in the first episode of the documentary. I was too scared to tell anyone. I was too afraid to tell my mother. »

Although she does not go into detail about the alleged abuses, Buku Abi believes that prison is a “well suited location” for R. Kelly, now 57 years old, talking about his “personal experience” with his father. She had already called him ” monster “ and denounced her actions – without explicitly speaking at that time of the abuse she said she had suffered – during a rare speaking out via a long Instagram post in 2019.

At the age of 8 or 9

In the second episode of the documentary, R. Kelly’s daughter gives more details about the alleged abuse that she says happened when she was 8 or 9 years old. “I remember waking up to him touching meshe remembers, crying. I didn’t know what to do, so I lay down and pretended to be asleep. »

Buku Abi says that she ended up confiding in her mother what had happened, that they went to the police and filed an anonymous complaint, without consequences for her father: “They couldn’t prosecute him because I waited too long. At that point in my life, I felt like I had revealed something for nothing.”.

From the American media Peoplethe singer defended himself in a statement made by his lawyer Jennifer Bonjean: “Mr Kelly vehemently denies these allegations. His ex-wife made the same allegation years ago, and it was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, which was found to be unfounded . »

In February 2023, R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child pornography and misappropriation of minors. The year before, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking in New York.

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