R. Kelly’s second federal trial begins
thefader.comA federal prosecutor and the defense attorney for Robert Sylvester Kelly made their opening statements as his second federal trial began in Chicago on Wednesday.
Kelly currently faces charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice alongside two additional defendants, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown. “The defendant… had sex with multiple children,” Assistant United States Attorney Jason Julien told the jury today, according to a Chicago Tribune report. “He made videotapes of himself having sex with children.
And these two co-defendants… knew about it.” Read Next: R. Kelly removed from suicide watch Julien went on to detail Kelly’s 2008 acquittal on similar charges in Illinois state court after the key witness for the prosecution (Kelly’s alleged victim) refused to appear against him.
The Associate Press reports that the woman in question, now in her 30s, will testify in the new case that he paid her off and threatened her not to give her testimony at the earlier trial.
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