Topline
Chicago jury finds R. Kelly guilty of child pornography for recording his sexual encounters with underage girls, according to multiple reports. The R&B singer has been jailed for three years in a separate sex trafficking case after being jailed for months.
Singer R. Kelly followed him out of Leighton Courthouse Status Hearing, Gender-Related … [+] 2019 Abuse charges filed against him on May 7, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Key Facts
Kelly was convicted on 6 of 13 criminal charges brought against him by federal prosecutors, including child pornography and child solicitation , charged with forcing three minors to engage in criminal sexual activity and making three child sexual abuse videos. New York Times
He was acquitted for accepting child pornography and obstructing, stemming from his Two co-defendants — Kelly’s former employees Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown — were acquitted of charges of obstructing an earlier investigation, according to Chicago TV station WGN.
Following his June conviction for sex trafficking in Brooklyn federal court, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison, and he could face several years in prison.
Kelly was previously on trial in Chicago, accused of making a 2008 video with a 14-year-old The sexually explicit video starring a 20-year-old girl, but jurors acquitted Kelly, later told the media according to The Times report, lack of victim testimony makes conviction difficult .
Victim decides to cooperate with investigators in 2019 in Lifetime Documentary Surviving R. Kelly premiered, during this year’s trial, she testified that Kelly told her to lie to a grand jury in 2002 , and denied her appearance on the tapes and their sexual relations (three other women also testified that Kelly abused them before they turned 18).
Key Background
Kelly, best known for his hits “I Believe I Can Fly” and “Ignition,” has been about him since the 1990s At the center of rumors of relationships with underage girls. Kelly, then 27, married up-and-coming singer Aaliyah, then 15, in an illegal ceremony in 1994. Kelly was charged with child pornography in Chicago in 2019 and 2020 Charged with sex trafficking in New York and pleaded not guilty to all charges.
