Updated federal charges filed towards US singer R Kelly come with sex abuse allegations involving new accuser.
The 13-count superseding indictment no longer add extra charges towards Kelly. It comprises more than one counts of kid pornography, similar to the original July charges.
The submitting refers back to the new accuser as “Minor 6” however now not comprises any connection with a “Minor 2″. That implies there are nonetheless a complete of 5 alleged sufferers within the Chicago federal case.
The indictment provides few information about the brand new accuser. It says she met Kelly round 1997 or 1998, when she would had been 14 or 15 years outdated. It says Kelly engaged in sexual touch or sexual acts together with her when she was once underneath 18.
In a tweet, Kelly’s legal professional Steve Greenberg, mentioned: “We proceed to combat for him and sit up for the day he’s loose.” He added the hashtag #notguilty.
Kelly, 53, will likely be arraigned underneath the transformed indictment. That would occur on March 5, a date set prior to now for a standing listening to. The trial date stays April 27, although this is more likely to be driven again to later this 12 months.
We’re acutely aware of the superseding indictment. We proceed to combat for him and sit up for the day he’s loose #notguilty #rkelly
— Steve Greenberg (@SGcrimlaw) February 14, 2020
It’s unclear why Minor 2 now not seems to be at the prosecutors’ record of alleged sufferers.
Kelly faces dozens of counts of state and federal sexual misconduct fees in Illinois, Minnesota and New York, from sexual attack to heading a racketeering scheme geared toward supplying Kelly with ladies.
The Grammy Award winner is watching for trial at a Chicago federal prison close to the courtroom the place he attends pre-trial hearings. He has participated in hearings in his New York case through video.
The federal fees in Chicago accuse Kelly of filming himself having intercourse with underage ladies and of paying off possible witnesses in his 2008 trial – at which he was once acquitted – to get them to modify their tales.
Kelly has denied ever sexually abusing someone.
In December, he pleaded now not to blame by means of a video feed to added fees in New York that he schemed to pay for a faux ID for an unnamed feminine an afternoon ahead of he married RnB singer Aaliyah, then 15, in a secret rite in 1994.
Drama surrounding Kelly’s case incorporated what government say was once a combat in January between two of the singer’s girlfriends dwelling at his house in Trump Tower in Chicago. Joycelyn Savage, 24, has pleaded now not to blame to punching and kicking 22-year-old Azriel Clary.
