R. Kelly's former goddaughter testified he had sex with her hundreds of times before she turned 18, starting when she was 15.
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R. Kelly Alleged Victim Testifies He Started Having Sex With Her When She Was 15
R. Kelly Trial Alleged Victim Claims They Had Sex When She Was 15
8/18/2022 12:51 PM PT
R. Kelly's former goddaughter says the singer had sex with her hundreds of times before she turned 18 years old ... testifying she was only 15 when they first had sexual intercourse.
The disgraced singer's alleged victim took the stand Thursday in Kelly's federal trial in Chicago, telling the jury she had sex with Kelly over and over as a minor because she was too intimidated to say no.
The woman, who is now 37, says she asked Kelly to be her godfather back in the late 1990s when she was only 13 ... and she testified things between them quickly turned sexual.
Kelly's alleged victim told the jury he first touched her breasts when she was about 14, doing so inside a Chicago recording studio ... and claims things escalated to intercourse when she was 15 and he was about twice her age.
The woman, known only by the pseudonym Jane, testified she had sex with Kelly "innumerable times" before her 18th birthday ... claiming the encounters took place at Kelly's home, recording studio, tour bus and hotel rooms.
Asked why she kept having sex with Kelly, Jane told the jury she viewed him as a figure of authority, and didn't know how to respond to his requests. She says she didn't know how to say "no" to Kelly and went along with the sex for so long it started feeling like a normal thing.
Jane testified she and Kelly would also have sex with other teenage girls he had her recruit.
She also testified Kelly recorded some of their sexual encounters, when she was only 14.
Jane's testimony against Kelly is huge ... she and her parents for years denied she had an inappropriate relationship with Kelly, and she was NOT called to testify at his 2008 trial, even though prosecutors claimed she was the girl on the video.
The 37-year-old woman, who was identified as Jane in court, is the prosecution's star witness in Kelly's federal trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges.
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Alleged child sex tape victim testifies R. Kelly had sex with her 'hundreds' of times before she turned 18
The now 37-year-old woman, who was identified as Jane in court, is the prosecution's star witness in Kelly's federal trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges.
Aug. 18, 2022, 6:00 PM EDT
CHICAGO — The teenage girl whose alleged sexual relationship with the singer
R. Kelly led to child pornography charges against the singer in 2008 testified Thursday that the singer began having sex with her when she was 15 and he was in his 30s and continued to do so "hundreds" of times before she turned 18.
The girl, who is now 37 and being identified by the pseudonym Jane in court, is the
prosecution's star witness in Kelly's federal trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges.
Kelly, whose legal name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is being tried alongside his former business manager, Derrel McDavid, and associate, Milton “June” Brown. They are both accused of conspiring with Kelly to
intimidate and bribe witnessesand cover up evidence in his 2008 criminal trial in Cook County, which involved a video recording of him allegedly sexually abusing a minor.
On Thursday, Jane testified that she was the person who appeared in that video with Kelly. She did not testify in the 2008 trial, and, at the time, her parents repeatedly denied she was the girl in the recording. Kelly was acquitted. He has denied any wrongdoing.
Jane testified Thursday that she had sex with the disgraced singer “hundreds” of times from age 15 to 18. Under questioning from prosecutors, she said she did so because she was intimidated by him and considered him an "authoritative figure."
Jane also testified that she first met Kelly when she was 12 or 13 years old at a church gospel concert.
“He was a superstar,” she said. "I was excited to meet him. I knew who he was as an artist and I aspire to be in the music industry.”
The second time she met him, Jane testified, was through an introduction from her aunt after an event where Jane’s music group had performed. Her aunt, Stephanie “Sparkle” Edwards, a singer who recorded a song with Kelly in 1998, was in a romantic relationship with him at the time, Jane said.
"After my show, he was telling me how great of a job I did and he gave me pointers to handle the stage," Jane testified. “It was great to hear from such a successful person that I was gifted.”
Soon after, she said, she started seeing him more at his home studio with Edwards, who told her she should ask him to be her godfather if she wanted her music career to advance.
Edwards, Jane testified, told her that she "should sit on his lap, rub his head and ask him if he will play that role for me and my life.”
Jane, who was 14 at the time, said the relationship turned sexual within weeks of that day, beginning with phone sex and progressing to oral sex. She testified that she was 15 when they first had intercourse.
Because he was her godfather, she said, her parents didn’t ask him any questions and felt comfortable with her staying at his house and spending time in the studio because they thought they were making music together.
“When he became my godfather, it was normal for me to be with him without my aunt there," Jane said.
At Kelly's request, she also recruited friends from school to join them for sex.
“I considered myself a submissive person and I wanted to give him what he wanted,” she said.
Jane said Kelly told her to keep the relationship a secret and told her to remain "loyal" to him.
She admitted to lying to a grand jury and to police about the relationship to protect Kelly and and to keep from her parents to find.
“I was going to take that to my grave,” she said.
When her parents found out about the relationship when the video was released, Jane said, her father erupted in anger at Kelly. But they eventually acquiesced to Kelly's plan to deny that Jane was in the video because they feared they would lose her, she said.
Jane said she decided to come forward a few years ago because she "became exhausted with living with his lies.”
Jane testified on the second day of witness testimony in the trial, which began Monday with
jury selection. She will return to the stand Friday under cross examination.
Prosecutor Jason Julien said Wednesday that Kelly had sex with minors on numerous occasions, recorded many of the alleged assaults on VHS tapes and then paid people who knew about the recordings to keep quiet when he faced criminal charges of child pornography in 2008.
Julien said Kelly had a “dark side” and kept a “hidden world” behind his fame and status.
Kelly is currently serving a 30-year prison sentence after being
convicted last year in New York City on charges of federal racketeering and sex trafficking.
Kelly's attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, told jurors during opening statements Wednesday that they will have to decide whether they believe the accusers and witnesses to be credible, pointing out that Jane had previously denied that she was the person in the video with Kelly.
This nikka got off in 2008 and could have easily went overseas for the rest of his life and do his nasty shyt.
