Disgraced former R&B star R Kelly has been found guilty of child sexual abuse and producing child pornography.
The singer, real name Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted of six out of the 13 counts in the Chicago trial lasting four weeks.
Kelly is already serving a 30-year sentence in New York for sex trafficking and racketeering, after being found guilty in 2021.The latest verdict is expected to now add years to his sentence. On last years verdict alone, Kelly will not be released until he is around 80-years-old. The recent trial and the 2008 trial both centred around the same 30-minute video of Kelly abusing a child. The then 14-year-old girl, known by the pseudonym “Jane” previously refused to testify in court in the 2008 trial. Now 37, Jane testified to the court that she was the child in the footage. Jane said that Kelly had sexually abused her hundreds of times.
The jury heard graphic descriptions and testimonies and watched portions of videos were Kelly abuses the young girl. The US Attorney Elizabeth Pozolo described one video of Kelly urinating on a young girl. One juror suffered a panic attack and had to be replaced by an alternate juror.
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