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R. Kelly's daughter accuses him of sexually abusing her
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R. Kelly's daughter accuses him of sexually abusing her

R. Kelly's daughter accuses the singer of sexually abusing her during her childhood.

In a new two-part documentary series “R. Kelly's eldest child, 26-year-old Buku Abi, said she was abused by her famous father when she was 10.

“I just remember waking up to him touching me,” Abi, whose legal name is Joann Kelly, says in the second episode of the series. “And I didn't know what to do, so I just laid there and pretended to be asleep.”

Abi was ten years old when she first told her mother Andrea about the alleged abuse.

“He was my everything,” Abi says in the documentary. “For a long time I didn’t even want to believe it happened. I didn’t know he would hurt me even if he was a bad person.”

Abi and her mother finally went to the police and filed a complaint against the singer. But “they couldn’t prosecute him because I waited too long,” she says. “At that point in my life, I felt like I had said something for nothing.”

Kelly was found guilty of multiple child pornography and sexual abuse charges in September 2022. The singer's lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, rejected his daughter's allegations.

In a statement to People, Bonjean said: “Mr. “Kelly vehemently denies these allegations” and that the singer's ex-wife made a similar allegation “years ago” that was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services. Bonjean called this accusation “unfounded.”

She also blamed “the 'filmmakers,' whoever they are,” for not reaching out to Kelly or his team “to even allow him to do this.” deny these hurtful allegations.”

Bonjean did not immediately respond to HuffPost's request for comment.

Abi, who like her father is a singer, said the alleged abuse left her with long-lasting emotional scars.

“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,” she says in the documentary. “After I told my mother, I stopped going there (her father's house). My brother (Robert) and my sister (Jaah), we didn't go there anymore. And even up to now I have a lot of trouble with it.”

“R. “Kelly's Karma: A Daughter's Journey” can be seen on the streaming platform TVEI.

Do you need help? Visit RAINN's National Online Sexual Assault Hotline or the National Sexual Violence Resource Center website.

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