R. Kelly

A federal jury in Chicago convicted R. Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial in his hometown.

Three of the child porn charges that Kelly was convicted of Wednesday were related to that video and others depicting Jane. Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. Jane, who belonged to a teenage singing group, first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. He told reporters that, when you add up the potential punishments on the six guilty counts, Kelly was staring at at least 10 years and up to 90 in prison. Bonjean, Kelly's attorney, told jurors in her closings that the government had relied, in some cases, on liars and and blackmailers as witnesses. Kelly trial at https://apnews.com/hub/r-kelly Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial in his hometown, delivering another legal blow to the Grammy Award winning singer who was once one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. But the government lost the marquee count — that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. Milton Brown, the other co-defendant, was acquitted of receiving child pornography. Kelly, who shed tears of joy when jurors acquitted him in 2008, gave a thumbs-up sign to spectators after Wednesday's verdict but otherwise showed little emotion.

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R. Kelly was found guilty of three charges of child enticement and three counts of child erotica.

Brown, a longtime Kelly associate, was found not guilty of obtaining child vulgarity. The 55-year-old artist was found guilty of three charges of child enticement and three counts of child erotica. In addition to two further enticement allegations, on all three counts of conspiring to receive child erotica, he was found not guilty. The judge declared that only one person had to be found over Kelly's attorney's protests. Prosecutors claimed that from 2000 until 2020, there was a plot to conceal his mistreatment. Longtime Kelly business manager [McDavid](/topic/mcdavid)was found not guilty by the jury after being charged with working with Kelly to fix the 2008 trial.

In Chicago, a federal jury has voted to convict R. Kelly on six charges of coercing minors into sexual activity and of producing sex tapes involving a minor ...

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A federal jury convicted R. Kelly on several counts of child pornography and sex abuse charges in the singer's hometown of Chicago.

Prosecutors will request that his sentence be served consecutive to the 30 years he’s already received for [racketeering charges](https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/06/30/r-kelly-sentenced-sex-trafficking-case/) in New York. Kelly instructing the girl to refer to her ’14-year-old’ genitalia. The jury composed of seven women and five men acquitted Kelly’s two former associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton ‘June’ Brown, of conspiring to receive the footage that was shown in court. [no sentencing date](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-r-kelly-chicago-federal-trial-verdict-20220914-fkhxtut63vd43n4nnqmv7fqxju-story.html) set for him. A jury acquitted him of a fourth child pornography charge and a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge concerning his 2008 trial. [convicted](https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/06/30/r-kelly-sentenced-sex-trafficking-case/) of mean he now faces up a minimum of ten years in prison.

For years, R. Kelly's music has been a staple at Black family gatherings, graduations and weddings. Should he be erased from the R&B canon?

“Kelly’s not the only predator out in the world doing these things to children and women — period.” Kelly’s musical contributions, in the 90s, and the early 2000s, I don’t think he’ll be divorced from those achievements 50 or 100 years down the road,” Neal said. Kelly from that is to cut out a piece of that life,” Neal said.Cutting out Kelly doesn’t have to mean pulling the plug on memories. Last year, jurors in a federal court convicted Kelly in New York and sentenced him to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking, “I Believe I Can Fly” — a bonafide standard — played in churches, graduations and weddings. And so, for me, it’s easy just to not listen to the music,” Neal said. People make all sorts of choices about separating the music for [insert problematic artist here.] But the evidence against Kelly mounted and got harder for even die-hard “Bump N’ Grind” fans to ignore. And something that was indeed a contribution to this larger canon of Black music. He really connected to a kind of generation of soul men in the ‘60s and bluesmen before that.” I loved his music going back to my early high school years on the South Side, and memory is attached. Nostalgia doesn’t mean more than the decades worth of harm Kelly has inflicted on Black girls and women. On the way to Great America.

The disgraced R&B superstar was found guilty of abusing three girls in federal court in Chicago Wednesday.

• This count involved the sexual abuse of a victim known as Nia. • This count involved efforts to hunt down incriminating videos of Kelly amounting to child pornography. [Sun-Times’ original reporting on Kelly](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/7/30/22602359/chicago-sun-times-r-kelly-investigation-trial-2008-newspaper-stories), including the story that [led to the singer’s first indictment in 2002](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2002/2/8/22595297/r-kelly-sex-tape-14-year-old-2002-chicago-sun-times-jim-derogatis-abdon-pallasch). Jurors heard discrepancies about Tracy’s age at the time. Count 7, receipt of child pornography: Not Guilty Count 4, production of child pornography: Not guilty

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R.

They noted that Kelly remained friendly with Jane and her parents for many years after the 2008 trial. She said she was 14 in the video and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30. The rent payments to Jane after 2014, they say, was part of the continuous conspiracy. She testified she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her. She said she wanted to protect Kelly, and added: “I also did not want that person to be me. So prosecutors had to show the conspiracy ran up to at least 2014. Jurors at that trial said they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the victim did not testify. Steps Kelly and others allegedly took to fix the 2008 trial happened two decades ago, so memories of how the purported crime unfolded have dimmed. Jurors also acquitted Kelly of receiving child pornography and one count of producing child pornography. State and federal prosecutors said He said he was pleased Kelly was “finally being held accountable.” But he said Kelly was still looking at a prison sentence of 10 to 90 years.

Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer's trial in Chicago, but they lost on the headline charge — that ...

They noted that Kelly remained friendly with Jane and her parents for many years after the 2008 trial. Follow Michael Tarm on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mtarm and find AP’s full coverage of the R. She said she was 14 in the video and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30. The rent payments to Jane after 2014, they say, was part of the continuous conspiracy. She testified she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her. She said she wanted to protect Kelly, and added: “I also did not want that person to be me. So prosecutors had to show the conspiracy ran up to at least 2014. Jurors at that trial said they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the victim did not testify. The conspirators, said prosecutors, applied particular pressure on a girl — now 37 and referred to in federal court as “Jane” — and her parents. Steps Kelly and others allegedly took to fix the 2008 trial happened two decades ago, so memories of how the purported crime unfolded have dimmed. Jurors also acquitted Kelly of receiving child pornography and one count of producing child pornography. He said he was pleased Kelly was “finally being held accountable.”

Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer's trial in Chicago.

They noted that Kelly remained friendly with Jane and her parents for many years after the 2008 trial. Follow Michael Tarm on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mtarm and find AP’s full coverage of the R. She said she was 14 in the video and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30. The rent payments to Jane after 2014, they say, was part of the continuous conspiracy. She testified she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her. She said she wanted to protect Kelly, and added: “I also did not want that person to be me. So prosecutors had to show the conspiracy ran up to at least 2014. Jurors at that trial said they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the victim did not testify. The conspirators, said prosecutors, applied particular pressure on a girl — now 37 and referred to in federal court as “Jane” — and her parents. Steps Kelly and others allegedly took to fix the 2008 trial happened two decades ago, so memories of how the purported crime unfolded have dimmed. Jurors also acquitted Kelly of receiving child pornography and one count of producing child pornography. He said he was pleased Kelly was “finally being held accountable.”

Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer's trial in Chicago.

They noted that Kelly remained friendly with Jane and her parents for many years after the 2008 trial. She said she was 14 in the video and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30. The rent payments to Jane after 2014, they say, was part of the continuous conspiracy. She testified she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her. So prosecutors had to show the conspiracy ran up to at least 2014. Jurors at that trial said they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the victim did not testify. While asking for forgiveness, she said Kelly also said: "You are either with us or against us." Steps Kelly and others allegedly took to fix the 2008 trial happened two decades ago, so memories of how the purported crime unfolded have dimmed. Jurors also acquitted Kelly of receiving child pornography and one count of producing child pornography. He said he was pleased Kelly was "finally being held accountable." At least one legal expert said obstruction of justice charges aren't generally hard to prove. Kelly, 55, is already serving a 30-year prison term imposed by a federal judge in New York for racketeering and sex trafficking.

A federal jury in Chicago convicted R. Kelly of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex.

Three of the child porn charges that Kelly was convicted of Wednesday were related to that video and others depicting Jane. Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. Jane, who belonged to a teenage singing group, first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Bonjean, Kelly’s attorney, told jurors in her closings that the government had relied, in some cases, on liars and and blackmailers as witnesses. He told reporters that, when you add up the potential punishments on the six guilty counts, Kelly was staring at at least 10 years and up to 90 in prison. Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial in his hometown, delivering another legal blow to the Grammy Award winning singer who was once one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. But the government lost the marquee count — that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. Kelly, who shed tears of joy when jurors acquitted him in 2008, gave a thumbs-up sign to spectators after Wednesday’s verdict but otherwise showed little emotion. Milton Brown, the other co-defendant, was acquitted of receiving child pornography.

R. Kelly was found guilty of three charges of child enticement and three counts of child erotica.

Brown, a longtime Kelly associate, was found not guilty of obtaining child vulgarity. The 55-year-old artist was found guilty of three charges of child enticement and three counts of child erotica. In addition to two further enticement allegations, on all three counts of conspiring to receive child erotica, he was found not guilty. The judge declared that only one person had to be found over Kelly's attorney's protests. Prosecutors claimed that from 2000 until 2020, there was a plot to conceal his mistreatment. Longtime Kelly business manager [McDavid](/topic/mcdavid)was found not guilty by the jury after being charged with working with Kelly to fix the 2008 trial.

Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly, but they lost on the headline charge — that Kelly obstructed justice by rigging ...

Prosecutors won convictions on six of the 13 counts against him, with many of the convictions carrying long mandatory sentences.

Three of the child porn charges that Kelly was convicted of Wednesday were related to that video and others depicting Jane. Jane testified that when her parents confronted Kelly in the early 2000s he dropped to his knees and begged them for forgiveness. Jane, who belonged to a teenage singing group, first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. A fifth accuser, Brittany, didn’t testify, and jurors acquitted Kelly of the one charge related to her. She earlier implored jurors not to see Kelly as “the monster” she said prosecutors so badly wanted them to see. He told reporters that, when you add up the potential punishments on the six guilty counts, Kelly was staring at at least 10 years and up to 90 in prison. Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial in his hometown, delivering another legal blow to the Grammy Award winning singer who was once one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. But the government lost the marquee count — that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. They said he offered up to $1 million to recover missing videos before his 2008 trial, knowing they would land him in legal peril. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was desperate to recover pornographic videos he made and lugged around in a gym bag, witnesses said. Milton Brown, the other co-defendant, was acquitted of receiving child pornography. Kelly, who shed tears of joy when jurors acquitted him in 2008, gave a thumbs-up sign to spectators after Wednesday’s verdict but otherwise showed little emotion.

The R&B singer has been convicted on multiple counts of child abuse and child enticement by a federal court in his home town of Chicago.

The judge in the Chicago case has not yet passed sentence on his latest convictions, but a single count of child abuse images carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years. One of the victims involved in the documentary agreed to cooperate with investigators and confirmed that she had lied on R Kelly’s behalf in a previous trial. [13 counts against R Kelly](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r-kelly-found-guilty-6-counts-child-pornography-federal-trial-rcna47663), mostly relating to sexual abuse and exploitation and accusations of conspiring to cover up evidence at a previous trial. Donnelly said that there were “few crimes more serious” than those perpetrated by the singer over the course of decades of abuse. This pattern of sexual abuse and manipulation was consistent across some of his other victims. R Kelly’s two co-defendants were found not guilty on all charges.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer's trial in Chicago, but they lost on the headline.

They noted that Kelly remained friendly with Jane and her parents for many years after the 2008 trial. Follow Michael Tarm on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mtarm and find AP’s full coverage of the R. She said she was 14 in the video and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30. The rent payments to Jane after 2014, they say, was part of the continuous conspiracy. She testified she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her. She said she wanted to protect Kelly, and added: “I also did not want that person to be me. So prosecutors had to show the conspiracy ran up to at least 2014. Jurors at that trial said they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the victim did not testify. The conspirators, said prosecutors, applied particular pressure on a girl — now 37 and referred to in federal court as “Jane” — and her parents. Steps Kelly and others allegedly took to fix the 2008 trial happened two decades ago, so memories of how the purported crime unfolded have dimmed. Jurors also acquitted Kelly of receiving child pornography and one count of producing child pornography. He said he was pleased Kelly was “finally being held accountable.”

Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly, but they lost on the headline charge — that Kelly obstructed justice by rigging ...