Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation are being sued on charges of sexually abusing and prostituting a minor over a four-year period in the early 1990s.
According to Rolling Stone, court papers filed in August reveal that the plaintiff, going by John Doe, is suing Bambaataa and the Zulu nation for allegedly sexually abusing him at 12-years-old at Bambaataa’s Bronx River home, which doubles as the Zulu Nations Headquarters.
“Plaintiff became a victim of sex trafficking as Defendant Taylor would transport Plaintiff to other locations and offer Plaintiff for sex to other adult men,” the suit reads. “During said encounters, Defendant Taylor would watch as Plaintiff was sodomized by other adult men.”
The lawsuit also has the Zulu Nation, Universal Zulu Nation, and XYZ Corp. as defendants, as they allegedly helped “to target, groom, and sexually abuse children.” Those organizations separated from Bambaataa in 2016 after the DJ faced similar allegations of sexual abuse.
In the wake of the lawsuit, the Zulu Nation released a statement saying the allegations are the personal problem of Bambaataa and not a reflection of the organization he founded:
“Nothing has changed since 2016 when these decades ago accusations first surfaced. This is a personal matter for Afrika Bambaataa and his lawyers to deal with and has absolutely nothing to do with the 10 year long UZN-DOCA mission, programs and projects which continue in the revolutionary legacy of both The Black Panther Party & The Young Lords Party to ‘Serve The People, Body & Soul.’”
Bambaataa and his legal team have yet to issue any official statement regarding this new lawsuit.
