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Warning: This story contains details about alleged sexual abuse.<\/em><\/p>\n R. Kelly<\/strong><\/a>‘s estranged\u00a0daughter<\/a> is speaking out about a traumatic experience.<\/p>\n Joann Kelly<\/strong>, who also goes by the name\u00a0Buku Abi<\/strong>, alleges in a new documentary that that the R&B singer, who is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence<\/a> for crimes against underage girls between 12 and 17, \u00a0sexually abused her when she was around 8 or 9 years old.<\/p>\n “I just remember waking up to him touching me,” she tearfully said on the two-part TVEI Network documentary Karma: A Daughter\u2019s Journey<\/em>, per People<\/em><\/a>. “And I didn\u2019t know what to do, so I just kind of laid there, and I pretended to be asleep.”<\/p>\n The singer denies abusing his daughter. “Mr. Kelly vehemently denies these allegations,” his\u00a0attorney Jennifer Bonjean<\/strong> said in a statement to People<\/em>.\u00a0“His ex-wife made the same allegation years ago, and it was investigated by the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services and was unfounded.”<\/p>\n E! News has reached out to R. Kelly’s rep for comment and has not heard back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n