Nicki Minaj"s Older Brother "CHARGED" With Raping a 12 Year Old Child - The Breakfast Club [Full]
Frank Eltman, Associated Press 5:11 p.m. EST December 4, 2015
Jelani Maraj, brother of Nicki Minaj, on Dec. 2, 2015, in Mineola, N.Y., after he was arrested on rape and other charges involving a victim younger than 13 years old.(Photo: Nassau County Police, AP)
MINEOLA, N.Y. Nicki Minaj"s older brother has been accused of raping a child younger than 13 several times between April and November.
Jelani Maraj, 37, of Baldwin, was arraigned Thursday in a Long Island hospital on charges of first-degree rape and first-degree sexual conduct against a child, a Nassau County court official said.
He was arrested on Tuesday but suffered an unknown medical condition that required him to be arraigned two days later at Nassau University Medical Center.
It was not immediately clear if Maraj entered a plea, but he was released on $100,000 bail. His New York City attorney did not return repeated telephone calls seeking comment on Friday.
Investigators wrote in court documents that the victim was younger than 13 and that Maraj raped the child several times. Some details in the court documents were blacked-out by a judge.
A spokesman for the district attorney"s office declined to comment on the allegations.
Nicki Minaj accepts the award for favorite album - rap/hip-hop at the American Music Awards on Nov. 22, 2015, in Los Angeles.(Photo: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)
Minaj, who won two American Music Awards last month for favorite artist and album-rap/hip-hop, did not immediately comment through a representative.
Minaj, who turns 33 next week,was born on Trinidad as Onika Maraj and was raised in Queens.
She attended her brother"s wedding to fiance Jacqueline Robinson in August on Long Island, according to her Instagram, which shows her, in a form-fitting red dress, hugginghim and her parents.
"Jelani, I love u more than you"ll ever comprehend," herpost on one picture read.
"I would cross the ocean for u. I would go & bring u the moon. Promise u. For u I will. I love my brother so much man," read the post on another picture.
She expressed her love,and the pictures generated hundreds of thousands of likes, but the comments section quickly filled up with vitriol directed at her and her brother.
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