R. Kelly’s Daughter Accuses Him Of Sexually Abusing Her As A Kid
R. Kelly‘s daughter with wife Andrea Kelly has opened up about the sexual abuse she allegedly suffered at her father’s fingers in a brand new documentary concerning the singer.
On Friday (October 11), TVEI Networks launched the primary of a two-part expose about Kelly and his relationship along with his youngsters titled Karma: A Daughter’s Journey. Per TMZ, the movie finds his daughter Buku Abi (born Joanne Kelly), sharing particulars about an incident she says occurred when she was across the age of eight or 9.
The now 26-year-old claims that she woke as much as discover R. Kelly touching her and pretended to be asleep. In a trailer for the documentary, Abi is heard alluding to the life-shattering second.
“He was my everything. For a long time, I didn’t even wanna believe that it happened,” she says whereas crying. “I didn’t know that even if he was a bad person, that he would do something to me. I really feel like that one millisecond completely just changed my whole life.”
Elsewhere within the trailer — which additionally options her mom and her brother, Robert Kelly Jr. — Buku Abi says that she is not going to be taking her son to go to her father and sheds extra mild on their fractured relationship, which he has beforehand blamed on his ex-wife.
“Nobody wants to be the child of the father that is out here hurting women and children,” she says, later including, “He knows exactly why we can’t have the relationship that we would have liked to have with him.”
While she could also be talking about this alleged incident publicly for the primary time, this isn’t the primary time Joanne Kelly has made these accusations.
According to TMZ, she informed her mom concerning the incident in 2009, roughly two years after it occurred. Andrea Kelly filed a criticism on the time, itemizing her daughter as Jane Doe; nevertheless they had been informed the statute of limitation had handed.
In a press release to the outlet, R. Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean stated that he “vehemently denies these allegations.”
“His ex wife made the same allegation years ago,” Bonjean wrote, “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.”
Back in 2022, a grand jury discovered R. Kelly responsible on six of the 13 federal expenses he was going through, which included three youngster pornography expenses for sexually abusing 4 ladies — three of whom had been minors.
They additionally discovered the Chicago native responsible of constructing movies of himself sexually assaulting his 14-year-old goddaughter, which resulted in one other three expenses for producing intercourse tapes with a minor.
He was sentenced to twenty years behind bars by a Chicago choose. Kelly, nevertheless, scored a victory when the choose dominated that each one however one yr could be served concurrent to the 30-year sentence he’s at the moment serving in New York on racketeering expenses.
Earlier this week, nevertheless, R. Kelly‘s appeal to overturn his sex crime convictions was officially denied by the Supreme Court.
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According to CNN, the Supreme Court declined to even hear the appeal on Monday (October 7). The embattled singer submitted his petition back in July, arguing the fact that his crimes occurred decades ago and the charges therefore fall outside the statute of limitations.
Because Kelly was convicted for incidents dating back to the mid 1990s, the singer’s crew tried to argue that the PROTECT Act, which he was charged with violating, doesn’t apply to his case because it didn’t change into a regulation till 2003 — regardless of prosecutors efficiently arguing that the regulation’s statue of limitations are indefinite.
Kelly’s lawyer stated that the Act’s expanded statute of limitations doesn’t apply to the fees towards her consumer, as Congress didn’t embody a clause permitting the regulation to be utilized to alleged conduct dedicated earlier than 2003 — solely after.
