More victims recall being sexually abused by R Kelly as teenagers

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Two more women took to the witness stand yesterday to talk about their relationships with R Kelly as teenagers, including sexual encounters that involved Jane, the star witness in the latest criminal proceedings against the one time musician.This is the second trial in a year putting the spotlight on the allegations of abuse that previously followed Kelly around for decades.

In last year’s court case in New York we heard from a long line of Kelly’s victims, who each described how he had groomed and then abused them.However, the current trial in Chicago has focused much more on the specific abuse of Jane – which began when she was about fourteen – and efforts by Kelly and his team to cover up that abuse after the leaking of a video tape in the early 2000s.The leaking of the tape that seemed to show Kelly sexually abusing Jane led to the earlier criminal proceedings against the star in the mid-2000s.

However, on that occasion, unlike this time, Jane denied it was her seen in the video and declined to cooperate with the prosecution.As a result, in 2008 Kelly’s defence successfully threw doubt in court on whether it was in fact Kelly and Jane seen having sex on the tape and he was acquitted.

Part of this latest trial is considering how Kelly, and co-defendants Derrel McDavid and Milton ‘June’ Brown, allegedly sought to subvert that earlier prosecution.That said, yesterday the Chicago court heard from two women who met Kelly as teenagers and who – similar to those who testified in New York a year ago – described how they came to be abused by the musician.