R. Kelly's Daughter Claims He Abused Her As A Child
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🗓️ 12 October 2024
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Summary
According to Abi, she was too scared to speak up about the alleged abuse initially, not even confiding in her mother, Andrea Kelly, until two years later in 2009. After revealing the incident to her mother, Abi and her siblings stopped visiting R. Kelly following his divorce from Andrea.
Abi shares that the abuse had a profound impact on her life, changing who she was and leaving her with lasting trauma. Despite filing an anonymous police report years later, no legal action was taken due to the delay in reporting. Abi expresses her frustration in the documentary, feeling as though her efforts to speak out had been in vain.
R. Kelly, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for unrelated child pornography and enticement charges, has denied the allegations through his attorney, Jennifer Bonjean. Bonjean claims that similar accusations from R. Kelly’s ex-wife were previously investigated and found to be unsubstantiated.
These new allegations come at a time when R. Kelly’s legal appeals have been exhausted, with the U.S. Supreme Court recently declining to hear his case. Abi’s accusations add yet another chapter to the ongoing controversy surrounding the disgraced musician, providing a deeply personal perspective on the impact of his actions on those closest to him.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a true crime in real time update from True Crime Today and the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | R. Kelly's daughter, Joanne Kelly, known by her stage name Buku Abi, has made a shocking |
| 0:12.1 | claim in a new docu series. In the two-part series titled Karma, a daughter's journey, |
| 0:18.4 | Abby alleges that her father, the once celebrated musician R. Kelly, |
| 0:22.5 | sexually abused her when she was a child. |
| 0:25.5 | The docu-series aired on the TVEI network and is already drawing intense attention, |
| 0:30.4 | adding yet another chapter to the ongoing controversies surrounding R. Kelly. |
| 0:35.9 | Avi, now 26, shared her deeply personal story for the first time on camera. |
| 0:42.3 | The allegations came with a sense of deep inner conflict. He was my everything. For a long time, |
| 0:48.7 | I didn't even want to believe that it happened. She admitted in the first episode of the documentary. |
| 0:53.8 | Her words reflected the |
| 0:54.9 | confusion and pain that lingered for years, the disbelief that the man who was her father could ever |
| 1:00.1 | harm her. But according to Abbey, it did happen. She was just eight or nine years old when she says |
| 1:07.3 | she was sexually abused by her father. I just remember waking up to him touching me, Abby recounted in the documentary. |
| 1:15.4 | Her voice filled with emotion. |
| 1:18.1 | I didn't know what to do, so I just kind of laid there, and I pretended to be asleep. |
| 1:25.0 | It was a chilling revelation, an allegation that stunned even those familiar with the |
| 1:30.4 | multiple accusations and charges R. Kelly has faced over the years. The abuse allegedly took |
| 1:36.6 | place in the early 2000s at the height of R. Kelly's fame. At the time, Obie said she was too scared |
| 1:43.2 | to tell anyone, not even her mother, Andrea Kelly, |
| 1:46.9 | who was married to the singer for 13 years. In 2009, at the age of 10, Abby finally told her mother |
| 1:53.2 | what she claims had happened two years earlier. After her disclosure, Abby and her siblings, |
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