R. Kelly's daughter, Buku Abi, claimed her father sexually abused her when she was a child.
In TVEI Streaming Network’s new documentary series “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 years old. or 9 years. Kelly and Drea, who were married from 1996 to 2009, are also parents to son Robert and daughter Jaah.
“He was everything to me. For a long time, I didn't even want to believe this happened,” Abi, who was born Joann Kelly, said in tears during the first episode of the two-part series.
R. Kelly's daughter, Buku Abi, accused him of sexually abusing her as a child. (TVEI/YoutTube/Getty streaming network)
“I didn't know that even though he was a bad person, he would do something to me,” Abi continued. “I was too scared to tell anyone. I was too scared to tell my mom.”
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“I really feel like that millisecond completely changed my entire life and changed who I was as a person and changed the glow that I had and the light that I used to carry,” Abi said.
Abi claimed she reported the alleged sexual assault to her mother in 2009, when she was 10 years old.
“After I told my mother, I didn’t go there anymore; my brother and sister, we didn't go there anymore. And even now I struggle with it a lot.”
Kelly's lawyers did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
In a statement to People magazine, Kelly's attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said: “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 and found to be unfounded. …And the 'filmmakers,' whoever they are, have not reached out to Mr. Kelly or his team to allow him to deny these damaging allegations.
Abi made the accusations in the new documentary series “R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey.” (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
Abi detailed the alleged meeting in the second part of the documentation.
“When I was younger, my father meant a lot to me. You know everything,” Abi said. “I was about 8 or 9 years old and he was having a party and I didn't want to be without him. So instead of sleeping in my room, I decided to sleep in his office, which was close to the party.”
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“And just, I remember falling asleep, and it must have been like 3 or 4 in the morning, and I just remember waking up to him touching me and I didn't know what to do. He pretended to be asleep,” Abi recalled while 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 that when she told Drea about the alleged abuse, it “completely broke her heart.” She recalled that they went to the police and filed a report. The documentary stated that Abi was identified in the report as “Jane Doe.”
Kelly is serving a 30-year sentence for racketeering and sex trafficking. (Associated Press)
“I had to talk to police and counselors and all these people about what happened, but because I waited so long to say anything, they couldn't really do anything about it,” Abi said. “My mother had to go to court for me. They basically couldn't process it because I waited too long, so at that point in my life I felt like I had said something in vain. . And I felt like I was putting my mother through so much for nothing.
Abi said she spent about two and a half weeks in a psychiatric hospital and attempted suicide “several times” due to the alleged sexual assault.
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In June 2022, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York after being convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking. In February 2023, the rapper was sentenced in Chicago to an additional 20 years in prison on charges of child pornography and enticing minors for sex. Kelly will serve all but one of those years concurrently 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 enticing a minor for sex. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition by Kelly to hear an appeal of his conviction in Chicago.
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“From my personal experience with him, prison is a suitable place for him to be,” Abi said in “Karma: A Daughter’s Journey.” Abi was pregnant during the filming of the docu-series and has stated that she will not be taking her first child, a son she named Omni, to visit him while he is in prison.
“If my child asks questions, I will be as honest as possible,” she said. “But I’m not taking my son to prison.”
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to www.rainn.org
