R.A.P. Ferreira is facing a series of shocking allegations from his former partner, including child abuse and sexual assault.
The claims were made in a lengthy message posted on the fundraising platform BetterWorld on Thursday (July 4), in which Chloe Stingley (who also calls herself Mekah) asked for financial help in her legal battle with the rapper and producer.
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She claims that the indie rap veteran, whose real name is Rory Ferreira and has also used the stage names Milo and Scallops Hotel, “has committed multiple acts of violence against me and all of my children.”
“Rory Ferreira physically assaulted my 7 year old at his record store, Soulfolks Records, used a deadly weapon against him and also sexually assaulted me,” she wrote. “We lived in Nashville for a few months and fled in November of 2023 because of fear of bodily harm and death.”
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Stingley is also accusing Ferreira of stalking her in an effort to track her down and taking legal steps to remove their 16-month-old daughter from her care.
She is seeking $22,000 in total, which she says will pay for a specialized domestic violence attorney and cover her travel expenses for a emergency hearing on July 12 in Nashville.
The money will also go towards hiring a lawyer in North Carolina where she has “filed an order of protection against Rory due to his behavior that inflicts substantial emotional distress by way of stalking, neglect of our daughter, aggravated child abuse of my son, Auri Stingley, and Rory’s history of unlawfully imprisoning me, along with verbal, financial and sexual abuse.”
Stingley claims she has “a sworn affidavit with 42 items of material evidence ready to go for [her] protection order hearing against Mr. Ferreira on July 23rd, 2024.”
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“These funds will allow me to protect my rights, have Miel [their daughter] returned to my care and show cause for change of jurisdiction to North Carolina so Rory can travel here to see her,” she added. “I desire for Miel to keep a relationship with her father but not to the detriment of the health, safety and well being of myself or my children.
“Rory Ferreira is using the court system to harass me with litigation abuse fueled by false allegations as a form of retaliation for me escaping from him and the domestic violence that was perpetrated in Nashville during 2023.”
Stingley has so far raised over $3,000 of her $22,000 goal.
HipHopDX has reached out to R.A.P. Ferreira for comment but has not yet received a response.
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The rapper is best known for critically acclaimed albums like So the Flies Don’t Come and Purple Moonlight Pages, as well as his work with fellow underground stalwards Open Mike Eagle, Elucid and Kenny Segal.
His most recent project, The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap — a full-length collaboration with Japenese producer Fumitake Tamura — was released in January.
