R Kelly, 54, faces charges he was ringleader of under-age sex ring

Singer R. Kelly goes on trial on Brooklyn today on charges he was the ringleader of an under-age Porn Sex ring.

The R&B star, Foto Telanjang 54, Video Porno has been accused to leading the sex ring where women had to call him ‘Daddy’ and had to ask him to use the bathroom. 

Kelly, a three-time Grammy winner, whose songs include ‘I Believe I Can Fly’ and Porn Video ‘Bump N’ Grind,’ has pleaded not guilty and Porn Video strongly denied wrongdoing. 

He will return to criminal court today for Porn Sex opening statement in his long-anticipated federal trial following years of allegations he sexually abused women and girls while pursing fame and Video Porno fortune. 

More than a decade has passed since Kelly was acquitted in a 2008 child pornography case in Chicago. 

It was a reprieve that allowed his music career to continue until the #MeToo era caught up with him, emboldening alleged victims to come forward.

The women’s stories got wide exposure with the Lifetime documentary ‘Surviving R.

Kelly.’ 

The series explored how an entourage of supporters protected Kelly and silenced his victims for Foto Porno decades, Video Bokep foreshadowing a federal racketeering conspiracy case that landed in Kelly in jail in 2019.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn have lined up multiple female accusers – mostly referred to in court as ‘Jane Does’ – and Video Porno cooperating former associates who have never spoken publicly before about their experiences with Kelly.

They are expected to offer testimony about how Kelly’s managers, Porn Sex bodyguards and Bokep other employees helped him recruit women and girls – and Foto Porno sometimes boys – for Indo Bokep sexual exploitation. 

They say the group selected victims at concerts and other venues and Foto Porno arranged for Video Porno them to travel to see Kelly in the New York City area and Foto Telanjang elsewhere, in violation of the Mann Act, Video Porno the 1910 law that made it illegal to ‘transport any woman or Video Bokep girl’ across state lines ‘for Porn Video any immoral purpose.’

When the women and girls arrived at their lodgings, Porn Sex a member of Kelly’s entourage would set down rules about not speaking to each other, Video Porno how they should dress and Foto Porno how they needed permission from Kelly before eating or going to the bathroom, prosecutors say.

The women were also allegedly required to call the singer ‘Daddy’.

Defense lawyers have countered by saying Kelly’s alleged victims were groupies who turned up at his shows and Indo Bokep made it known they ‘were dying to be with him.’ 

The women only started accusing him of abuse years later when public sentiment shifted against him, Porn Sex they said.

Kelly is perhaps best known for Porn Video his smash hit ‘I Believe I Can Fly,’ a 1996 song that became an inspirational anthem played at school graduations, Porn Video weddings, Porn Sex advertisements and Indo Bokep elsewhere.

An anonymous jury made up of seven men and Video Porno five women have been sworn in to hear the case. 

The trial, Porn Sex coming after several delays due mostly to the pandemic, will unfold under coronavirus precautions restricting the press and the public to overflow courtrooms with Video Bokep feeds.

If convicted, Video Porno he could face life in prison. 

The New York case is only part of the legal peril facing the singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly. He also has pleaded not guilty to Porn Sex-related charges in Illinois and Porn Video Minnesota.