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


The plaintiff, who alleged that Bambaataa sexually abused and trafficked him when he was 12, was granted a default judgment after the DJ failed to show up in court

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. A man claiming to be a former bodyguard for Bambaataa, Shamsideen Shariyf Ali Bey, said: “I’ve walked in on stuff where I say: ‘What the fuck is going on.’ He travels with late teens. The musician denied all allegations in a 2016 interview with Fox 5 News, but left his position as the head of his Universal Zulu Nation organisation: “I never abused nobody.

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