R. Kelly’s child Buku Abi is asserting in a brand-new docudrama that her papa sexually abused her as a kid.
Abi, whom Kelly show his ex-wife Andrea “Drea” Kelly, made the allegation in the two-part collection R. Kelly‘s Karma: A Daughter’ s Journey, which premiered via the TVEI Streaming Network on Friday (Oct 11).
“He was my everything. For a long time, I didn’t even want to believe that it happened. I didn’t know that even if he was a bad person that he would do something to me,” Abi, whose lawful name is Joann Kelly, claims in the episode. “I was too scared to tell anybody. I was too scared to tell my mom.”
In the 2nd episode, Abi, currently 26, asserts the misuse occurred when she was 8 or 9 years of ages. “I just remember waking up to him touching me,” she tearfully remembers. “And I didn’t know what to do, so I just kind of laid there, and I pretended to be asleep.” She included, “from that moment on, I was a different person.”
Abi claims she originally reported the supposed misuse to her mommy in 2009, and an issue was submitted under “Jane Doe,” however the law of constraints had actually gone out. “They couldn’t prosecute him because I waited too long. So at that point in my life, I felt like I said something for nothing,” she stated.
Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean stated in a declaration to People that the locked up vocalist “vehemently denies these allegations. His ex-wife made the same allegation years ago, and it was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and was unfounded…. And the ‘filmmakers,’ whoever they are, did not reach out to Mr. Kelly or his team to even allow him to deny these hurtful claims.”
The disgraced R&B vocalist, whose genuine name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is presently offering a 30-year jail sentence after he was founded guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking fees in 2021. In 2022, Kelly was additionally founded guilty of 6 matters of kid porn and luring a small to take part in sex.
The initially 2 episodes of R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey are presently streaming via the TVEI Streaming Network.
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