"I no longer wanted to carry his lies," she said. She decided shortly thereafter to speak to investigators. She told jurors: "I felt comfortable enough to reach out to him because I was afraid." She said she repeatedly tried to contact him in 2019 for advice as she pondered whether to speak to authorities at length about Kelly for the first time. In one text to him, she wrote, "I love you. Kelly" was coming out, Jane said she was concerned for Kelly and reached out to him. Bonjean asked if, "after you broke up, you cared about him and he cared about you?" Jane said that was true.Īs "Surviving R. Under questioning, Jane said her relationship with Kelly lasted 12 years and continued for two years after his 2008 trial, until she was 26. The scrutiny intensified during the #MeToo era and following the 2019 release of the Lifetime television docuseries "Surviving R. Kelly has been trailed for decades by allegations about his sexual behavior. While cross-examining her Friday, Kelly's lead attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, sought to cast the R&B singer in a more favorable light after Jane testified the day before about how Kelly pursued her sexually starting when she was around 14 years old. Kelly, 55, was around 30 years old at the time. She also said Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times from the late 1990s before she turned 18. Jane testified for over four hours Thursday, saying it was she and Kelly in a videotape that was the focus of the 2008 trial, at which he was acquitted.
She said she lied because she didn't want to get others in trouble. Hours before jurors got their first glimpse of sexually explicit videos at the heart of the prosecution's bid to prove Kelly produced child pornography and successfully rigged his 2008 child porn trial, the woman, who is now 37 and going by the pseudonym "Jane" during the current trial, conceded that even after she began cooperating, she lied when she told agents she wasn't sure if Kelly had abused minors other than her. Kelly as a minor testified Friday that she agonized several years ago about whether to cooperate with federal investigators who were looking into child abuse allegations involving the singer, but she ultimately did because she didn't want to "carry his lies."
CHICAGO - A woman who says she was sexually abused hundreds of times by R.
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