R.Kelly Faces New Sexual Abuse Indictment
Disgraced R&B singer, R. Kelly is facing sexual abuse allegations involving a new accuser, another minor victim, an updated federal indictment unsealed revealed.
The new indictment against the “I Believe I Can Fly” crooner, filed Friday in Chicago federal court, involves an alleged victim who says she was 14 or 15 years old when Kelly abused her.
The filing also includes new details involving allegations that Kelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, and co-defendants Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown arranged for six-figure payments to individuals for retrieving videotapes of Kelly sexually abusing minors.
R. Kelly’s Windy City case has been scheduled to go to trial in April. He is charged there with producing and receiving child pornography and enticing minors to have sex with him. But the new indictment could push that date further into the future, the Sun-Times reported.
While few details are made available, the indictment claims the new accuser first came in contact with R.Kelly around 1997 or 1998, when she would have been 14 or 15 years old. The filing further claims the singer engaged in sexual acts around that time and several years before she turned 18.
“We are aware of the superseding indictment,” Steve Greenberg, Kelly’s lawyer, tweeted Friday. “We continue to fight for him and look forward to the day he is free #notguilty #rkelly.” R. Kelly also faces racketeering, sex-trafficking and bribery charges in Brooklyn federal court and other criminal charges in state courts in Chicago and Minneapolis.
