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R. Kelly
R. Kelly


Background information
Birth name Robert Sylvester Kelly
Born January 8, 1967
Origin Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genre(s) Contemporary R&B
Soul
Hip-hop
Gospel
Years active 1991—present
Label(s) RCA Records
Jive Records
Associated acts Snoop Dogg
T-Pain
Swizz Beatz
Fat Joe
Ludacris
Twista
Kelly Price
Website Website



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R Kelly Acquitted Of All 14 Child Porn Charges

June 16, 2008
R Kelly Acquitted Of All 14 Child Porn ChargesA jury in America has acquitted US R&B star R Kelly of all 14 charges of child pornography against him.

The performer was found not guilty of filming himself having sex with an underage girl who prosecutors claimed was a young as 13.

Kelly, who denied all the charges, faced upwards of fifteen years in prison if found guilty.

He was arrested in 2002 after the video, apparently shot in 1998, was handed to a journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper.

The jury deliberated for six hours over the course of two days before the verdict was read out in court in Chicago a day before yesterday (June 13th).

The trial was subject to a number of conflicting testimonies, with some relatives of the alleged victim identifying her as the girl in the tape and others saying she was not a family member.

Much of Kelly’s defence was based on the fact that the man in the video lacked a distinguishable mole on his back, which R Kelly has.

(by Jason Gregory)



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