Federal prosecutors in R. Kelly’s The sex trafficking case stated that in addition to the girl, he also had sexual contact with an underage boy. The government hopes that the jury will hear these allegations in the upcoming sex trafficking trial.
Prosecutors filed a wide range of additional charges against the R&B star in a court document on Friday, but no new charges were filed. The jury selection will begin in Federal Court in New York on August 9. Kelly denied that he had abused anyone.
On Saturday, he sent information about the additional charges to his lawyer.
The Grammy Award-winning singer was accused of leading a criminal enterprise of managers, bodyguards and other employees who allegedly helped him recruit women and girls for pornographic and erotic activities and exercise substantial control over them.
The allegations involved six different women and girls who were not named in court documents.
Now, prosecutors also want jurors to hear about more than a dozen other people who the government has accused Kelly of being sexually or physically abused, threatened, or otherwise abused.
The government said that among them was a 17-year-old boy and aspiring musician. Kelly met him at McDonald’s in December 2006 and was later invited to his Chicago studio. According to court documents submitted by the prosecutor, after asking the boy how he would succeed in the music industry, Kelly proposed to him and had sexual contact with him when he was still a teenager.
In 2008, when Kelly was about to be tried on child pornography charges in Chicago, the young man told the singer that he had access to the jurors. Kelly asked him to contact the jurors and ensure that he was a “good guy,” the prosecutor wrote.
The document does not say whether young people have done this. In this case, Kelly was acquitted.
The boy also introduced Kelly to a 16- or 17-year-old male friend, and the prosecutor stated that Kelly began a sexual relationship a few years later. According to the documents, Kelly also filmed the two young men’s sexual encounters with other people, including some of Kelly’s girlfriends.
The prosecutor wrote that the boy’s and others’ narratives would help show that the actual allegations were “not an isolated incident, but part of a larger model”.
The best-selling platinum record singer, born in Robert Sylvester Kelly (Robert Sylvester Kelly), is known for his works, including the 1996 hits “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Stuck in In the closet”, this is a multi-part story about sexual betrayal and conspiracy.
Kelly’s sex life has been under scrutiny since the 1990s, and currently he is also facing sex-related charges in Illinois and Minnesota. He has pleaded not guilty.
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