Reports: Nicki Minaj pays brother's bail after rape arrest

Frank Eltman | Associated Press

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.

Citing court documents, the New York Post reports that Nicki paid for Jelani's $100,000 bail on Friday, using two of her houses as collateral.

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.

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 fiancée Jacqueline Robinson in August on Long Island, according to her Instagram, which shows her, in a form-fitting red dress, hugging him and her parents.

"Jelani, I love u more than you'll ever comprehend," her post 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.

Jelani, I love u more than you'll ever comprehend. 😢 A photo posted by Nicki Minaj (@nickiminaj) on Aug 22, 2015 at 8:03pm PDT

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.