EMBATTLED singer R. Kelly faces new allegations of childhood sexual abuse from his eldest child, Buku Abi, in the documentary series “R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey.” Abi, 26, claims Kelly abused her when she was 10 years old.
“I just remember waking up to him touching me,” Abi says in the show’s second episode. “And I didn’t know what to do, so I just kind of laid there, and I pretended to be asleep.”
Abi revealed that she first told her mother, Andrea, about the alleged abuse at the time, but authorities were unable to prosecute Kelly due to delayed reporting.
“He was my everything,” Abi says. “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 he would do something to me.”
Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, denies the allegations, stating that Kelly “vehemently denies these allegations” and citing an earlier investigation by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services that found similar accusations “unfounded.”
Abi, a singer herself, opened up about the lasting emotional impact of the alleged abuse. “I really feel like that one millisecond completely just changed my whole life and changed who I was as a person, and changed the sparkle I had and the light I used to carry.”
–Platinum Post News
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