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The eldest daughter of R. Kelly (57) says that she was abused by her father when she was 8 or 9 years old. Buku Abi, now 26 years old, born Joann Kelly, speaks publicly about it for the first time in TVEI’s new documentary ‘Karma: A Daughter’s Journey’.
“I remember waking up and him touching me”
Kelly allegedly raped Buku while she was sleeping. “I remember waking up and him touching me. And I didn’t know what to do, so I just laid there and pretended to be asleep,” she said, cried in the documentary, according to American media.
Abi kept the alleged abuse a secret for years. “I was too afraid to tell anyone. I was too afraid to tell my mother,” she says. The woman did that later, when Kelly was accused of sexual abuse. She filed a complaint against her father, but the judges could not prosecute her because she ‘waited too long’. “It felt at the time as if I had come out with nothing. “
57-year-old R. Kelly was sentenced to thirty years in prison in 2022 after being found guilty of sexual abuse, among other things. He was later sentenced to another twenty years in prison for child pornography and extortion.
2024-10-11 19:28:00
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