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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Laura Snapes

Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa loses civil case suing him for child sexual abuse

Afrika Bambaataa in 2006.
Afrika Bambaataa in 2006. Photograph: Henny Ray Abrams/AP

Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa has lost a civil case suing him for child sexual abuse and trafficking after failing to show up in court.

In 2021, the anonymous plaintiff alleged that the DJ and producer sexually abused and trafficked him for four years, beginning in 1991, when he was 12 and Bambaataa 33 or 34 years old.

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