R. Kelly child porn trial begins, 'victim' to deny she is person on tape
Chicago - Sise years after he was charged with videotaping himself having sex activity with an underage little girl, R&B virtuoso R. Grace Kelly went on trial today, with his alleged victim prepared to deny she is the somebody on the taping.Kelly has been charged with 14 counts of videotaping, producing or soliciting child erotica. Prosecutors indicate he knew, or should ingest known, the girlfriend was a teenaged tike.If convicted of wholly charges, the 41-year-old performer, whose precondition distinguish is Henry Martyn Robert Grace Kelly, could be sentenced to up to 15 long time in prison.As Eugene Curran Kelly arrived at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse, fans cheered and critics waved signs and called the prolific songwriter, isaac Bashevis Singer and producer a pedophile.Label Vincent Gaughan rejected a request from Kelly's lawyers to check the tribulation because of recent epoch promotion. The proceeding, already postponed numerous times, is expected to cobbler's last up to heptad weeks, with jury selection continuing Monday.Prosecutors say the lurid 26-minute tape was made between Jan 1998 and November 2000 when the girl was 13 or 14.
The alleged victim, wHO is now in her 20s, has denied she is the lady friend on the tape and could testify in Kelly's defense, according to court records. Kelly's lawyers have argued it is not him on the taping either.In a 2003 interview with the Michigan Tribune, Grace Kelly said he was no pedophile, saying: "I've always loved women. ... Simply I don't consume a old bag with little suckers in it, hiding slow or so tree talk around, 'Come here, little female child.' Not me."The story came to light in ahead of time 2002 when the Chicago Sun-Times turned over to law a copy of the widely bootlegged videotape.The Boodle Sun-Times and the Tribune both reported last week another woman would attest that she and the daughter had engaged in sex together with Kelly, and will identify her as the person on the tapeline, which testament in all probability be played in tribunal.The accusations prompted or so wireless stations of the Cross to stop playing Kelly's songs, merely it didn't derail his life history. He has earned millions from concert tours and album gross sales while existence disembarrass on US$750,000 bond certificate.After singing for change on Michigan tube platforms, Gene Kelly shot to fame in the early 1990s with rhythm and vapours hits care Sexuality Me and Bump n' Grind.The carnality of his early on lyrics gave way to wholesomeness with the 1996 bingle I Believe I Can buoy Wing, which earned Weary Willie three Grammy Awards. He has received 20 other Grammy nominations.The Chicago-born isaac Bashevis Singer produced Age Ain't Naught Simply a Number for youth protege Aaliyah in 1994. The match married, only Aaliyah, then 15, and her parents had the wedding annulled. She died in a planing machine crash in 2001.He after married a dancer and has trey children.- REUTERS/NIELSEN
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