R .Kelly Found Guilty Of Child Abuse In Chicago

Robert Sylvester Kelly , an American singer and songwriter, was on Wednesday  found  guilty of three child pornography counts, and three counts of enticing minors for sex. It was  the second time  a jury had convicted R. Kelly  of federal sex crimes this year.

The jury in Chicago found him guilty of three counts of producing child sex abuse images and three counts of enticing underage girls to engage in criminal sexual activity. 

R. Kelly, who was born on January 8, 1967, was for more than a decade recognized as one of the biggest R&B stars in the world.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned two sexual misconduct trials still await Kelly – one in Minnesota and one in state court in Chicago.

He was found guilty on three counts of child abuse images and three counts of child enticement while getting  acquitted  on a fourth abuse images count as well as a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him of fixing his state child abuse images trial in 2008.

He was not  found  guilty on all three counts of conspiring to receive child abuse images and for two further enticement charges while his two co-defendants were found not guilty on all charges.

It will be recalled that a federal judge in New York had  sentenced Kelly to 30 years in prison in June for racketeering and sex trafficking.

Jurors on Wednesday wrote several questions to the judge, at least one indicating the panelists were grappling with some of the case’s legal complexities.

One asked if they had to find Kelly both enticed and coerced minors, or that he either enticed or coerced them. Over objections from Kelly’s lawyer, the judge said they only needed to find one.

At trial, prosecutors sought to paint a picture of Kelly as a master manipulator, who used his fame and wealth to reel in star stuck fans, some of them minors, to sexually abuse then discard them.

Kelly was desperate to recover videos of child abuse he made and lugged around in a gym bag,  one witnesses said.

They said he offered up to $one million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. The conspiracy to hide his abuse ran from 2000 to 2020, prosecutors said.

Kelly’s associates ; Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown were co-defendants at the Chicago trial. Jurors acquitted McDavid, Kelly’s longtime business manager, who was accused of conspiring with Kelly to rig the 2008 trial. Brown, an associate for years, was acquitted of receiving child abuse images.

Kelly faced 13 counts. A conviction of just one count of child abuse images carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, while receipt of child abuse images carries a mandatory minimum of five years. Judges can order that defendants sentenced earlier in separate cases serve their new sentence simultaneously with or only after the first term is fully served. Federal inmates must serve at least 85% of their sentences.

During closing arguments on Tuesday, Kelly’s attorney Jennifer Bonjean had  likened the government’s testimony and evidence to a cockroach and its case to a bowl of soup.

‘If a cockroach falls into soup, you don’t just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup’ she had  told jurors.

In her closing rebuttal, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng cited testimony that Kelly’s inner circle increasingly focused on doing what the R&B star wanted as his fame boomed in the mid-1990s.

‘And ladies and gentlemen, what R Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls’ she said- Team@orientactualmags.com
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