Incarcerated Singer R. Kelly’s Daughter Accuses Him Of Sexual Assault

Posted by: Eninu William in Celebrity October 12, 2024

Buku Abi, the estranged daughter of incarcerated singer R. Kelly, has said her father sexually molested her when she was eight or nine years old. This revelation came in a lengthy statement came following the release of the Surviving R. Kelly docuseries in 2019. Abi referred to her father as a “monster.”

In a recent two-part TVEI documentary titled R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, Abi (born Joann Kelly) made the assertions.

“I just remember waking up to him touching me. And I didn’t know what to do, so I just kind of laid there, and I pretended to be asleep.”

Kelly “vehemently denies” these accusations, according to a statement from his lawyer Jennifer Bonjean.

Read his lawyer’s statement below;

“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.”

According to Abi in the documentary, she was too afraid to tell anyone at first. She also added that she “didn’t even want to believe” that it had actually happened.

However, in 2009, when she was ten years old, she finally told her mother, Andrea Kelly, about the alleged abuse.

Abi claims that despite her and Andrea’s police complaint, no charges were brought because Abi “waited too long.” Andrea claimed that Kelly had sexually assaulted Jane Doe, a teenage girl, in 2009 in a 2014 court file asking for sole custody of her and Kelly’s three children.

R Kelly was found guilty in Chicago of child pornography and luring youngsters into his car for sex. He was given a 20-year prison sentence in 2023.

He had already received a 30-year prison sentence in a New York sex crimes case at that point. Kelly will be eligible for release in 2045 and is presently serving these two sentences concurrently.

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