In a new documentary about the singer, R. Kelly’s daughter with his wife Andrea Kelly has spoken out about the alleged sexual abuse she received from her father.
Karma: The first part of a two-part expose about Kelly and his relationship with his children was released on Friday, October 11 by TVEI Networks. A Journey of a Daughter. According to TMZ, the movie features his daughter Buku Abi, who goes by the name Joanne Kelly, talking about an incident that she claims happened when she was eight or nine years old.
The 26-year-old singer claims that she awoke to find R. Kelly touching her and that he had pretended to be sleeping. Abi makes reference to the life-altering moment in a documentary trailer.
“He was everything to me. She cries and says, “I didn’t even want to believe that it happened for a long time.” Even if he was a bad person, I had no idea that he would hurt me. I truly feel like that one millisecond totally changed for what seems like forever.”
Buku Abi reveals that she will not be taking her son to visit her father in another part of the trailer, which also features her mother and Robert Kelly Jr., her brother. She also sheds more light on their shattered relationship, which he has previously attributed to his ex-wife.
She later adds, “He knows exactly why we can’t have the relationship that we would have liked to have with him.” She says, “Nobody wants to be the child of the father that is out here hurting women and children.”
Joanne Kelly has made these accusations before, even though this is the first time she has spoken out about the alleged incident in public.
TMZ claims that she reported the incident to her mother in 2009, roughly two years after it occurred. At the time, Andrea Kelly filed a complaint, naming her daughter Jane Doe; However, they were informed that the deadline had passed.
Jennifer Bonjean, R. Kelly’s attorney, issued a statement to the publication stating that the singer “vehemently denies these allegations.”
Bonjean wrote, “His ex-wife made the same allegation years ago, and it was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and was unfounded.” “The ‘filmmakers,’ whoever they are, did not reach out to Mr. Kelly or his team to even allow him to deny these hurtful claims,” he continued. “His ex-wife made the same allegation years ago.”
Back in 2022, a terrific jury tracked down R. Kelly liable on six of the 13 government charges he was confronting, which included three kid erotic entertainment charges for physically mishandling four young ladies — three of whom were minors.
They also found the Chicago native guilty of making videos in which he filmed himself sexually assaulting his goddaughter, who was 14 years old at the time, which led to three additional charges of making sex tapes with a minor.
A Chicago judge imposed a sentence of 20 years in prison on him. Kelly, notwithstanding, scored a triumph when the appointed authority decided that everything except one year would be served simultaneous to the 30-year sentence he’s right now serving in New York on racketeering charges.
Recently, nonetheless, R. Kelly’s enticement for upset his sex wrongdoing convictions was authoritatively denied by the High Court.
As per CNN, the High Court declined to try and hear the allure on Monday (October 7). In his petition, the troubled singer argued that because his crimes occurred decades ago, the charges are not subject to the statute of limitations.
Despite prosecutors’ successful arguments that the law’s statute of limitations are indefinite, Kelly’s team attempted to argue that the PROTECT Act, which he was charged with violating, does not apply to his case because it did not become a law until 2003. Kelly was convicted for incidents that occurred in the middle of the 1990s.
Kelly’s attorney claimed that the charges against her client do not fall under the Act’s expanded statute of limitations because Congress did not include a clause allowing the law to be applied to alleged conduct committed after 2003.
