In a case that was brought about by complaints from women who claimed R. Kelly coerced them into having sex with him while they were minors and allegations that he planned to intimidate and bribe witnesses, R. Kelly was found guilty on Wednesday of six counts of sexual exploitation and enticement of a minor.

One year after Kelly was found guilty in New York of federal racketeering and sex trafficking, a federal jury reached its verdict on the second day of deliberations. In that case, he is currently serving a 30-year prison term.
Kelly was charged with 13 counts total, including allegations of soliciting a kid to participate in sexual activity that is against the law, receiving child pornography, enticing a youngster to engage in such activity, conspiring to obstruct justice, and conspiring to receive child pornography. Seven counts, including all of the conspiracy-related ones, were dropped against him.
The embattled singer was charged by the prosecution with having sex acts with five minors and documenting some of the abuse on multiple videos.
Several of Kelly’s alleged victims testified during the five-week trial, all of whom said that they were minors when Kelly started sexually assaulting them.
The singer whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was on trial with two other people: Milton “June” Brown, a co-defendant, and Derrel McDavid, a former company manager. Both McDavid and Brown were acquitted of all counts.
According to the federal allegations against them, both individuals were accused of collaborating with Kelly to rig the results of the singer’s 2008 Cook County criminal trial, which contained a video recording of Kelly allegedly sexually abusing a minor.
Federal prosecutors told jurors during closing arguments that the singer had committed “horrible crimes against children” and then, with help from his business partners, tried to cover up his actions because he knew they would be “completely damning.”
They also argued that the singer “took advantage of Jane’s youth” for his own “sick pleasure” and that the jury must look at the case using her as “a base and guide.”
“She was brave enough to come forward after all these years to tell you what happened,” attorney Elizabeth Pozolo told jurors Monday.