A group of American parents have accused veteran R and B singer, R Kelly of holding their daughters against their wills and keeping them in a sex cult
A group of American parents have accused veteran R and B singer, R Kelly of holding their daughters against their wills and keeping them in a sex cult for his sexual pleasures. According to BuzzFeed, R. Kelly is holding multiple young women against their will in what their parents are calling an abusive sex cult. But the young women in question keep telling the police that they’re there of their own free will. And since all of them are at least 18 years old, the police can’t do anything.
But the veteran singer has denied all of the allegations about the sex cult. R Kelly through a representative says, “Mr. Robert Kelly is both alarmed and disturbed by the recent revelations attributed to him. Mr. Kelly unequivocally denies such accusations and will work diligently and forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear his name.”
The report had said that there are at least five women who have lived with him in the last one year.
“A 31-year-old ‘den mother’ who ‘trains’ newcomers in the sex cult on how R Kelly liked to be pleasured sexually. She was once best friends with the girl in the videotape for which Kelly was tried in 2008; a 25 year old woman who also has been with him since she was, a 19 year old model who has been photographed in public with R Kelly, a 26 year old songwriter who began her relationship with him when she was 19 and an 18 year-old singer who is said to be his favourite girl at the moment.”
The report alleges that Kelly targets young women who come to him for help with their fledgling music careers. He seems to offer them professional guidance and then instead he initiates sexual relationships with them behind their parents’ backs. Most of the women are 19 or in their early 20s, and were still living with their parents or in college when Kelly allegedly targeted them. R Kelly is said to talk with his targets secretly via cellphone for several months, then fly them out to one of his concerts to sleep with them.
The report also said that he begins to control the girls’ appearance and behavior. He confiscates the girls’ cellphones and replaces them with new ones, instructing them to ask his permission if they want to use the new phones to contact anyone besides him. According to Buzzfeed sources, the women are required to call Kelly ‘Daddy’ and to ask his permission before leaving their rooms. They dress in jogging suits so that no one else can see their bodies, and when other men are in the room, they are required to turn around and face the wall.
R Kelly is also alleged to routinely films his sexual activities and shares the videos with other men, and when any of the women ‘break the rules,’ Kelly punishes them verbally and physically. According to the mother of one of the alleged victims,
“It was as if she was brainwashed. [She] looked like a prisoner, it was horrible. I hugged her but she just kept saying she’s in love and [Kelly] is the one who cares for her. I don’t know what to do. I hope that if I get her back, I can get her treatment for victims of cults. They can reprogram her. But I wish I could have stopped it from happening,” she said of the last time she saw her daughter.
