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R & B Star R. Kelly on Trial for Child Pornography

By Altman & Altman

The criminal trial of R & B Singer R. Kelly continues this week. Kelly is charged with 14 counts of child pornography related to a video in which he allegedly is seen having sex with a minor. Kelly has pled not guilty to all 14 counts and he denies that he is the man seen in the video having sex with the young girl. The alleged victim is now a 23 year-old-woman, and she too denies that she is the girl in the video. Last week, Chicago Police Officer Delores Gibbon testified that the girl in the video was her niece, who was only 13 or 14 years old when the video was shot. The girl?s childhood best friend Simha Jamison also identified the girl in the video. She also identified Kelly as the man in the video. Jamison says that she and her friend visited Kelly a number of times at his recording studio and that the singer often gave her friend money, ranging from $100 to $500...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on May 26, 2008 (boomark / email).