New York, USA / 08.30.2021 21:49:34
After several days of testimony from women who claimed to have been sexually groomed and abused by R. Kelly, something surprising happened for the court, A man took the stand on Monday to say the R&B singer blew him up the same way when he was just a high school student.
The witness in the trial of Kelly, accused of sex trafficking in New York, gave statements in federal court in Brooklyn without using his real name. He said Kelly lured him to his Chicago-area home in 2007 with bogus offers to help him with his fledgling music career.
Kelly asked the alleged victim of then 17 years, “What was he willing to do for music,” said the witness. He said he replied: “I’ll take your bags … Whatever you need I’ll be willing to do.”
“It’s not that. It’s not that,” she said Kelly added before asking if she ever fantasized about having sex with men. He described how Kelly “He got down on his knees and proceeded to give me oral sex” even though “I didn’t like it”.
After that, the young man declared, “He told me to keep it between him and me”.
In a later incident, Kelly “snapped his fingers three times “to summon a naked girl hiding under a boxing ring to give Kelly and the witness oral sex, the man told the jury.
The witness continued to see Kelly after that because “I really wanted to succeed in the music industry”, said.
The witness testified as part of a cooperative agreement by pleading guilty in a separate case according to which he participated in a failed scheme to bribe a woman who did not testify against Kelly. The singer does not face charges related to that case.
Kelly, 54, has repeatedly denied taking advantage of victims during a 30-year career propelled by your success “I Believe I Can Fly”. His lawyers have portrayed his accusers as groupies who lie about their relationships with him.
Previously on Monday, a woman stated that Kelly sexually assaulted her at age 17 after a concert in Miami in 1994. The witness, who also testified without using her name, said Kelly’s friends took her and a friend to the artist’s dressing room after the show and that Kelly pulled down her shorts and forced her to have unprotected sex.
“I was in complete shock,” said the woman. “I didn’t know what to say at all. Basically, I just went blank.”
After that, she and her friend “they opened the door and ran out”he declared.
During cross-examination, defense attorney Deveraux Cannick pressed the witness on why, after someone allegedly “raped” her, she waited more than two decades to go to authorities.
“Because I didn’t want to feel more shame and trauma,” he replied.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/r-kelly-a-man-accuses-him-of-sexual-abuse/
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