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WATCH: Brittney Taylor Says Her Children’s Father Beat Her ‘For 3 Years Straight’ Amid Assault Charges

<p><strong>Brittney Taylor<&sol;strong> has responded to her recent assault and child endangerment charges&period; Earlier today&comma; we learned the former <em>Love &amp&semi; Hip Hop&colon; New York<&sol;em> star turned herself into the police last week on a warrant&period; The charges are for allegedly punching <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;brittney-taylor-arrested-baseball-bat&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">her children&&num;8217&semi;s father<&sol;a>&comma; <strong>Afeez Akande&comma;<&sol;strong> and hitting him with a bat in front of their kids&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; in a series of online posts&comma; Taylor accuses her ex of beating her &&num;8220&semi;for three years straight&period;&&num;8221&semi; Brittney also shared a video of a man off-camera&comma; who she says is Afeez&comma; seemingly admitting to causing a black eye&period; She also denies she hit him with a baseball bat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;brittney-taylor-shares-the-first-photos-of-her-baby-girl-legacy-aqueen-akande&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Brittney Taylor Shares The First Photos Of Her Baby Girl Legacy A&&num;8217&semi;Queen Akande<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I have been beaten for three years straight&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t come to the internet&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t even tell the cops nothing because I&&num;8217&semi;m f&ast;&ast;king traumatized&period; I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t even go to the cops at the time this man was beating my a&ast;&ast; cause I&&num;8217&semi;m traumatized&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Taylor also explained that reporting <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;marvin-gaye-divorce-domestic-violence-arrest&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">domestic violence<&sol;a> incidents could lead to &&num;8220&semi;the whole world calling &lbrack;her&rsqb; a rat&period;&&num;8221&semi; She also accused him of giving her &&num;8220&semi;busted up&&num;8221&semi; eyes and beating her up while <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;former-love-hip-hop-new-york-star-brittney-taylor-welcomes-her-baby-girl&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">she was pregnant<&sol;a>&&num;8211&semi;though she didn&&num;8217&semi;t specify which pregnancy&period; Brittney and Afeez share two kids&&num;8211&semi;a two-year-old and an eight-month-old&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <em>TMZ&comma; <&sol;em>which <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tmz&period;com&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;28&sol;brittney-taylor-love-hip-hop-new-york-arrest-assault-kids-father&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">first broke Taylor&&num;8217&semi;s charges<&sol;a>&comma; Brittney punched Afeez in the face and hit him with a baseball bat&&num;8211&semi;causing a bloody laceration that he posted on Instagram on March 20&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CqVaWI9uBq-" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Brittney&&num;8217&semi;s response to the allegations&comma; she shared a text message she allegedly sent to Afeez&period; On March 3&comma; 2022&comma; at 5&colon;58 a&period;m&period;&comma; she texted a side-view photo of deep purple bruises on her cheek&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Smh&&num;8230&semi;you hit me first&comma; and I can&&num;8217&semi;t take that&period; Idc how annoying I was getting you&period; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t deserve this&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Taylor wrote in a follow-up 2022 text&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>In the reaction video&comma; Taylor added&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;This man is sitting here playing victim after beating my a&ast;&ast; for three f&ast;&ast;king years&comma; during my pregnancy and everything&period; Excuse my language&comma; because I don&&num;8217&semi;t even want to go there because this is what they want&period; This is what they been wanted&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s him and some little new girl he been with&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She went on to claim that Afeez doesn&&num;8217&semi;t take care of their children&&num;8211&semi;she does&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Brittney Taylor Says She Didn&&num;8217&semi;t Hit Her Children&&num;8217&semi;s Father With A Baseball Bat<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Taylor explained on Instagram Live that Afeez was told he couldn&&num;8217&semi;t be around her&period; There was allegedly a conversation about his mother coming to pick up the children for a day&period; But when the day came&comma; Akande showed up as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Taylor says she reacted by trying to avoid them and retreating to her living room&period; But Afeez allegedly began speaking &&num;8220&semi;disrespectful&&num;8221&semi; to her&comma; including using curse words&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CqV1dihudNi" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her Insta-Live started skipping&comma; but Taylor told The Shade Room that she didn&&num;8217&semi;t hit Afeez with a bat and that he hit her while trespassing at her grandmother&&num;8217&semi;s home&period; She later told fans the weapon she used was a toy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s crazy because this is a man who&&num;8217&semi;s been beating my a&ast;&ast; for years&comma; and I finally retaliated because he trespassed into my grandmother&&num;8217&semi;s home and hit me&period; In which he knocked my 82 year old grandmother on the floor in the midst of it&period; He doesn&&num;8217&semi;t take care of his kid&period; And I did NOT hit him with a bat&period; That is a lie&period; And this happened weeks ago&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she told TSR&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She later shared this exact message with her 300&comma;000&plus; followers on Instagram&comma; along with additional details about the alleged abuse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Brittney T&period; Shares A Video Of A Black Eye And Says Afeez Is Her &&num;8216&semi;Abuser&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>In an Instagram feed post&comma; she explained that she left Miami and relocated to New York to get away from Afeez&period; She called him her &&num;8220&semi;abuser&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi;mentally and physically in the caption of a video of her with a black eye&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Here&&num;8217&semi;s her full caption&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Speaking of DV&period; This Nigerian man has been beating on me for Years&period; He feels like women should obey their man and if they talk back they deserve to be hit&period; SMH&comma; He’s abusing me mentally and physically&period; He’s beat me infront of my child more than twice&period; Here is a video from one time I caught him on camera in the background admitting to giving me a black eye&period; He’s now trying to play victim and grab a little clout along the way&period; It’s very sad he’s going the extra mile to try damaging me as if he hasn’t damaged me enough&period; He’s a dead beat sadly because my daughter loves the hell out of him smh… I just wanna be left alone&period; I left Miami and I’m going thru hell&period; I’m being stalked and disrespected every other day&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Brittney claims she left Miami with two bags&comma; and now Afeez won&&num;8217&semi;t return her additional property and has allegedly been selling it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;He’s not my baby father&period; He’s my abuser&period; Let’s be clear&period; I never hit him with a bat&period; He’s a liar&period; I hit him with a toy because he attacked me and knocked my 82 yr old grandmother to the floor in the process&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Taylor wrote&period; &&num;8220&semi;SMH I was wrong for the way I retaliated and I turned myself in like the stand up woman I am and took my charges&period; There’s not excuse for violence but that was clearly reactive abuse&period; I HAVE HAD ENOUGH&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CqV0orguFa1" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Instagram Story&comma; amid a few posts about their alleged domestic violence history&comma; Brittney lamented not creating a paper trail of her abuse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s my fault for not starting a paper trail&period; I should&&num;8217&semi;ve been called the cops&period; And every time the neighbors called the cops I told them I was okay&period; SMH&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m just so traumatized&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she wrote&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She also accused Afeez of trying to gain clout by sending his allegations of domestic violence to a few blogs for weeks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"117503" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;watch-brittney-taylor-says-her-childrens-father-beat-her-for-3-years-straight-amid-assault-charges&sol;" data-secure&equals;"edb4cef2ba"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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