Afrika Bambaataa Sued for Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/afrika-bambaataa-accused-sexual-abuse-sex-trafficking-new-lawsuit-1222888/
John Doe lawsuit alleges that hip-hop pioneer sexually abused and prostituted him starting at 12 years old in early Nineties
A lawsuit filed in August accuses hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa of sexually abusing and prostituting a minor over a four-year period in the early 1990s.
In the lawsuit, filed in August under the New York Child Victims Act and obtained by Rolling Stone, the John Doe victim alleges that “from 1991, when the Plaintiff was merely 12 years old, to 1995, the Plaintiff was repeatedly sexually abused and sex trafficked at the hands of” Bambaataa, referred to in the lawsuit by his birth name Lance Taylor.
A representative for Bambaataa did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.
According to the lawsuit, the then-12-year-old Doe was allowed access to the home gym within Bambaataa’s Bronx apartment, where the DJ first “would comment about Plaintiff’s muscular body and would touch Plaintiff on the shoulders, biceps, and torso.” Bambaataa allegedly would later “inappropriately touch Plaintiff in his private areas,” which progressed to watching pornographic videos at Bambaataa’s apartment where he would “encourage Plaintiff to masturbating [sic],” which soon after “progressed to mutual masturbation.” That, the lawsuit claims, “progressed to sodomy.”