Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa was sued in August for alleged sexual abuse and sex trafficking of a minor.
The lawsuit, which was filed in New York State Supreme Court on Aug. 4 and obtained by SPIN, details the alleged abuse, which allegedly took place from 1991-1995.
The victim, named as John Doe in the complaint, alleges that when he was 12-years-old, Bambaataa invited him into his home gym in the apartment building where they respectively lived in the Bronx and would “would comment about Plaintiff’s muscular body and would touch Plaintiff on the shoulders, biceps, and torso.” Continuing, the suit alleges that Bambaataa would “inappropriately touch Plaintiff in
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