Looks like time is officially up for R. Kelly. Nearly two months since the docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly” aired, the singer has officially been charged.
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The Chicago Sun Times reports, he “was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Cook County Friday morning, records show.” His lawyer, Steven Greenberg, was not available for immediate comment.
Yesterday, two more women, Latresa Scaff and Rochelle Washington. Represented by Gloria Allred, Scaff said she met the singer at a 1996 concert in Baltimore, “When I first met R. Kelly that night, I was very happy and excited because I was young and starstruck. However, now that I am an adult, I feel hurt by what he did to me when I was only 16 years old and under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, which had been provided to me at his afterparty.”
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Attorney Michael Avenatti recently gave new video to prosecutors in Cook County, Illinois, which could be the nature of the recent charges. The lawyer said in a statement that he was hired last April in connection to multiple allegations of Kelly sexually assaulting minors. He claimed to have a 45-minute VHS tape as evidence, which, despite its similarities, was not the same video got Kelly indicted in 2002 — and acquitted in 2008 — for child porn.
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One major legal problem that Kelly faces is that Illinois has no statute of limitations on sex crimes against minors. In 2017, Illinois enacted legislation that ended a requirement for child sex abuse victims to file a report within 20 years of turning 18 years old.
There’s also growing pressure to put an end to Kelly’s alleged abuses. Chicago residents appear to be in no mood to let Kelly off the hook for a second time if a recent protest against him in the Windy City was any indication. After the docuseries aired, demonstrators rallied outside a building leased by Kelly, calling for a boycott of his music.
“Surviving R. Kelly” has already prompted further legal scrutiny, which means law enforcement probably already has enough to charge him now that this new video has surfaced. It seems like just a matter of time before Kelly finds himself facing justice, again.
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