Five months after R. Kelly was convicted of sex crimes in Illinois, a federal judge has sentenced the disgraced singer to 20 years in prison. Kelly’s latest trial was effectively a do-over of a 2008 child-pornography trial that ended with his acquittal
, the girl — referred to as “Minor 1” in this trial — met Kelly in the late 1990s, when she was in middle school. Her aunt, the singer Sparkle, brought Minor 1 to Kelly’s recording studio, a meeting that apparently led to the girl informing her parents that he was going to be her godfather. But within a few years, Sparkle discovered the tape and showed it to Minor 1’s parents.
As for Brown, he and McDavid allegedly “agreed to intimidate, threaten, pressure, persuade, and attempt to persuade” victims and their families to stay quiet, at Kelly’s direction. The woman’s mother took the stand under the pseudonym “Susan,” telling the court she had lied to a grand jury in 2008 about her daughter’s identity on the tape, because the family “feared for our lives and were intimidated” by the singer. According to the, Susan told the court that she and her husband met with the singer and McDavid at a hotel in Illinois following reports that Kelly was having sex with her then-14-year-old daughter.
By the time she was 15, Pauline claimed she and R. Kelly were having penetrative sex and that the two continued their relationship for years, with Pauline describing the singer as “best friend meets boyfriend meets dad.” When asked why she lied to detectives ahead of R. Kelly’s 2002 indictment on child-pornography charges, as well as why she didn’t mention her current allegations during a 2019 interview, Pauline said she “loved him.
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