R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi accuses the singer of sexually abusing her as a child

R. Kelly’s daughter Buku Abi has claimed her father sexually abused her as a child.

In the new documentary “R. On TVEI Streaming Network’s Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, 26-year-old Abi, whom the 57-year-old singer shares with her ex-wife Andrea “Drea” Kelly, claims that Kelly molested her when she was eight or 9 years old. Kelly and Drea, who were married from 1996 to 2009, are also parents to son Robert and daughter Jaah.

“He was my everything. For a long time I didn’t even want to believe it happened,” Abi, who was born Joann Kelly, said through tears during the first episode of the two-part series.

“I didn’t know he would hurt me even if he was a bad person,” Abi continued. “I was too scared to tell anyone. I was too scared to tell my mother.”

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“I really feel like that one millisecond completely changed my entire life and who I was as a person and how the shine that I had and the light that I carried was changed,” Abi said.

Abi claimed she reported the alleged sexual assault to her mother in 2009 when she was 10 years old.

“After I told my mother, I stopped going there; my brother and sister, we stopped going there. And so far I’m still having a lot of trouble with it.”

Kelly’s lawyers did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

In a statement to People magazine, Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said: “Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these allegations. His ex-wife made the same allegation years ago, which was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and found to be unfounded.” …And the ‘filmmakers,’ whoever they are, have not contacted Mr. Kelly or his team to even allow him to deny these hurtful claims.”

Abi made the allegations in the new documentary “R. “Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey”. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)

Abi explained the alleged encounter in the second part of the documentary.

“When I was younger, my father meant the world to me. You know everything,” Abi said. “I was about 8 or 9 years old and. He was having a party and I didn’t want to be without him. So instead of sleeping in my room, I decided to sleep in his office, which was close to the party.”

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“And I just remember falling asleep, and it had to be around three or four in the morning, and I just remember waking up to him touching me and I didn’t know what to do. So I just laid there and I “I pretended to sleep,” Abi recalled as she cried. “And I didn’t know what to do, so I just laid there and pretended to be asleep.”

“I was too afraid to tell anyone.”

– Buku Abi

Abi said that when she told Drea about the alleged abuse, it “completely broke her heart.” She recalled that they went to the police and filed a report. The documentary states that Abi was identified as “Jane Doe” in the report.

Kelly is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for racketeering and sex trafficking. (Associated Press)

“I had to talk to officials and counselors and all these people about what happened, but because I waited so long to say something, they really couldn’t do anything about it,” Abi said. “My mother had to go to court on my behalf. They basically couldn’t prosecute him because I waited too long, and at that point in my life I felt like I had said something for nothing. I felt like it was a waste of time.” . And I felt like I was giving my mother so much for nothing.”

Abi said she spent about two and a half weeks in a psychiatric hospital and attempted suicide “several times” because of the alleged sexual assault.

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In June 2022, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York after being convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking. In February 2023, the rapper was sentenced to another 20 years in prison in Chicago for child pornography and luring minors into sex. Kelly will serve all but one of those years concurrently and is expected to be eligible for parole at age 80.

The singer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child pornography and enticing minors to have sex. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from Kelly to hear an appeal of his conviction in Chicago.

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“From my personal experience with him, prison is a well-suited place for him,” Abi said in “Karma: A Daughter’s Journey.” Abi was pregnant during the filming of the docuseries and explained that she would not take her first child, a son she named Omni, to visit while he was incarcerated.

“If my son asks questions, I will be as honest as possible,” she said. “But I won’t send my son to prison.”

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org