The mother of the star witness in the latest R Kelly criminal trial has testified that she and her husband “feared for our lives” in the early 2000s when a video tape leaked that seemed to show the musician sexually abusing their daughter.
Kelly and his team intimidated the couple, she added, and that’s why they denied to media and law enforcement that it was their daughter on the tape.Kelly was previously charged in relation to that footage of abuse in the mid-2000s, but he was ultimately acquitted in 2008.
The teenage girl being sexually abused in the video – referred to as Jane in the current trial – refused to cooperate with prosecutors in the 2000s.
As a result, during the 2008 court hearing, Kelly’s defence team successfully threw doubt on whether it was, in fact, Kelly and Jane seen on the tape.But this time Jane is cooperating with the prosecution, testifying last week that it was, in fact, her being sexually abused in the video that leaked in the early 2000s, and in other videos since obtained by prosecutors.
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