R Kelly’s daughter accuses singer of s3xually violating her when she was 10 years old

Buku Abi, the 26-year-old daughter of popular American singer Robert Kelly popularly known as R Kelly has accused her father of s3xually violating her at the age of 10.

Speaking out publicly for the first time, Abi In a two-episode documentary titled Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, which premiered today, October 11, said she was too scared to tell anybody.

She said that she was abused by her father as a child, and she first reported it to her mother Andrea in 2009 and she did not want to believe that what her father did to her really happened.

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“He was my everything. For a long time, I didn’t even want to believe that it happened. I didn’t know that even if he was a bad person he would do something to me,” she says in the documentary, the first episode of which is currently streaming.

“I was too scared to tell anybody. I was too scared to tell my mom.” She added.

Abi, real name Joann Kelly, says she thinks jail is a “well-suited place” for Kelly, 57, because she knows from “personal experience,” even though she does not go into detail about the alleged abuse in the first episode.

“I really feel like that one millisecond completely just changed my whole life and changed who I was as a person and changed the sparkle I had and the light I used to carry,” she says.

“After I told my mom, I didn’t go over there anymore; my brother [Robert] and sister [Jaah], we didn’t go over there anymore. And even up until now, I struggle with it a lot”, she said.

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