R&B singer R. Kelly was convicted on three counts of child pornography federal jury in Chicago. This proposal was made a few months after sentenced to 30 years in prison court of New York State. Singer still ahead of two other trialsone in Minnesota and another in the same state of Chicago.

Rapper R. Kelly and Lady Gaga at the 2013 American Music Awards

The jury, which pondered the sentence for 11 hoursconcluded that Kelly was found guilty after instructions of the judge hearing the caseHarry Leinenweber. As regards the charges against him of alleged conspiracy to obstruction of justice by manipulating a key witness trial in 2008 in which he was accused of forcing minors to have sex with him and recorded these relationshipssinger was declared innocent.

Milton Brown and Darrell McDavies, two of his employees and very close to Kelly at the time where the first trial took place. McDavies faced four counts.two for obtaining child pornography, one for conspiring to do so, and one for conspiring with the singer to obstruct justice in a 2008 trial. As for his other defense attorney, Milton Brown, he was charged with obtaining child pornographyby which he was also acquitted.

The prosecutor in charge of the case, Giannis Appeteng, asked the jury to remember young women and girls who accused the singer of swearing: “When you are in the silence of the jury room, it is good to consider the testimony of those who are at the center of this caseKelly’s victims: Jane, Nia, Pauline, Tracey and Brittany, pseudonyms and names five young women who testified against the singer

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For her part, Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bongin, tried to describe the singer as an “imperfect genius” who grew up “as a functional illiterate from childhood” and who was not “well prepared to handle his celebrity and growing wealth. He also claimed that “he was greatly affected by the abuse he received as a child”. it is not reviewed until the singer is 80 years oldwithin 25 and the final verdict has not yet been determined jury.

Kitty Jones, one of the victims of the rapper’s abuse, in the documentary “Survive R. Kelly” | Photo: YouTube

Among some accusations whom the translator of “I Believe I Can Fly” encountered in court, produce child pornographyagree to receive it and persuading minors to have sex. Regarding the accusation that he was accused of at the previous trial, held in June 2022, the prosecutor’s office stated this. guilty of racketeering, coercion and sex trafficking crimes women and girls for over 20 years.