R Kelly found guilty of six charges at end of Chicago sex abuse trial
completemusicupdate.comR Kelly has been found guilty of six of the charges he faced in his latest criminal trial in Chicago. Most of those relate to the sexual abuse, in the late 1990s, of the musician’s then fourteen year old goddaughter, referred to as Jane, and his filming of that abuse.It was a video of Kelly sexually abusing Jane that sparked an earlier investigation in the 2000s into the abuse allegations that had been made against the star.
But that time around Jane denied that it was her in the video and declined to cooperate with prosecutors. As a result, Kelly’s defence team were able to raise sufficient doubts about the identities of the people seen on the tape for the musician to be acquitted.This time Jane cooperated with the prosecution and confirmed on the witness stand that it was her and Kelly seen in the video from the 2008 trial, and others.
She had lied about the videos in the 2000s, she said, “because I was afraid to expose Robert – I also did not want that person to be me, I was ashamed”.
But she had decided to tell the truth now, she added, because she had become “exhausted” living with Kelly’s lies.On their second day of deliberations, the jury concluded that Kelly was guilty of three charges of enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity and three more in relation to his filming of that sexual abuse of children.However, he was acquitted on several other charges.
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