R. Kelly’s oldest kid, Buku Abi, says the imprisoned “I Believe I Can Fly” fiend molested her when she was a child.
Tearful Buku who no longer goes by her birth name Joann Kelly, makes the damning charge in a new two-episode documentary titled R. Kelly’s Karma: A Daughter’s Journey.
The traumatized 26-year-old shares she was “eight or nine” when the alleged abuse took place.
“I just remember waking up to him touching me,” she explains without delivering exact details. “I didn’t know what to do, so I just kind of laid there, and I pretended to be asleep.”
The devastated daughter adds she was “too scared” to tell anyone — but later struggled with suicidal thoughts and eventually confided in her mother, Andrea.
Jennifer Bonjean — an attorney for Kelly, who is doing decades behind bars for unrelated sex trafficking and child pornography convictions — insists her client “vehemently denies” Buku’s allegations.
Bonjean says Kelly’s ex wife Andrea — who is also mom to the Grammy winner’s other offspring, Jaah, 24, and Robert Jr., 22 — “made the same allegation years ago, and it was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and was unfounded.”
But Buku argues her father’s actions “completely” altered her life in “that one millisecond” — and “changed who I was as a person and changed the sparkle I had and the light I used to carry.”
As her estranged dad serves out 31 years of sentences in federal prison, Buku declares he’s in a “well-suited place!”
