Two More Accusers Testify In The R. Kelly trial.
Two more accusers testified at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago on child pornography and solicitation of minors on Monday (Aug. 29), bringing the total number of accusers to three.
Another accusation is that the R&B singer rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening witnesses and concealing video evidence, and the first accuser, who testified under the alias “Jane” two weeks ago, is critical to this allegation.
The prosecution mentioned five accusers in pre-trial filings; however, it is unclear whether both remaining accusers will testify before the government rests this week. The trial was scheduled to last a month, ending around the middle of September.
The alleged accuser, Pauline, told the jury on Monday that she and Jane went to the same middle school and that in 1998, when they were both 14, Jane introduced her to Kelly, who was around 30 at the time.
Pauline claimed that when she and Kelly visited Kelly in Chicago later that year, she unexpectedly walked in on Kelly and a naked Jane in the basement. Kelly, she claims, told her, “we all have secrets,” and that this was “our secret.”
Pauline repeatedly expressed her love for Kelly to the jury. She says she sees things differently now that she’s a mother and 37 years old.
The person or people who have harmed my children will pay with their lives. “Finally,” she declared.
Kelly allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with her over a hundred times between the ages of 14 and 15.
In cross-examination, Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, suggested that Pauline had been evasive about the frequency of her sexual encounters with the minor.
What is wrong is wrong, whether done once or twice, Pauline said.
Tracy, the second accuser to testify against Kelly on Monday, claimed that Kelly was introduced to her by her boss at the record label where she was interning in 1998. Tracy told the jury that she had repeatedly declined Kelly’s advances.
“You know I’m 16?” she said after he began pulling her close to him in a room at Kelly’s Chicago studio. He “exposed himself” a few minutes later. Tracy stated during cross-examination, “I tried to pull back, but he had a hold of my shirt.”
She also mentioned another incident in which Kelly stormed into Tracy’s hotel room, yelled at her, and demanded that she take off her bathrobe because she was dressed.
In court, she stated, “I told him I didn’t want to have sex.”
However, she claimed Kelly sexually abused her on multiple occasions by forcing her into bed with him. She claimed that she and Kelly began having sexual relations when she was 16, and that they continued to do so throughout their adolescence.
Tracy sobbed as she testified on Monday about the day Kelly walked into a room where Tracy was waiting. Jane and Kelly are here.
“I was very confused and angry,” she admitted. Is it just Rob and me? I had no idea there were any more.
At Kelly’s 2008 trial, state prosecutors testified that they had a video of Kelly abusing Jane, and the video was the main focus of the trial. Kelly was acquitted by a jury in 2008 because she did not testify, but they stated this after the trial.
Jane testified in the ongoing trial, claiming she was the child in the video and Kelly was the adult.
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