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Karma: A Daughter’s Journey, R. Kelly’s Daughter Details Abuse

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Karma A Daughters Journey

R. Kelly's daughter claims in a new two-part documentary series that her father molested her as a child. Buku Abi, whom Kelly shares with ex-wife Andrea "Drea" Kelly, detailed her alleged abuse in an episode of the "Karma: A Daughter's Journey" series.

Karma: A Daughter's Journey

Abi is one of the rapper’s three children with ex-wife Drea Kelly. They were married from 1996 to 2009.

Abi whose legal name is Joann Kelly started using a different name to separate herself from her father's last name. Buku Abi was 'a different person' from the child who was abused.

After Kelly’s arrest in 2019 Abi posted a public condemnation of her father. She called him a "monster" and said "it has been years since my siblings, and I have seen or have spoken to him."

She also went public about her father’s alleged abuse in Lifetime's "Surviving R. Kelly" docuseries.

"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 that he would do something to me," Abi, says in the latest documentary. 

She "was too scared to tell anybody. I was too scared to tell my mom."

Abi goes shares disturbing details about the alleged abuse, she says occurred when she was 8 or 9-years-old.

"I just remember waking up to him touching me," she recalls. "And I didn’t know what to do, so I just kind of laid there, and I pretended to be asleep." 

No Appeal for R. Kelly 

Kelly's attorney Jennifer Bonjean responded to the woman’s charges.

 "Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these allegations. His ex-wife made the same allegation years ago, 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."

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the former R&B superstar's appeal of his 2022 federal conviction.

He was convicted in one case of child pornography and luring underage girls. 

Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison, was acquitted of seven other charges that included obstruction of justice and conspiracy to receive child pornography.

Currently "R. Kelly's Karma: A Daughter's Journey" is streaming on TVEI Streaming Network.

 

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