R. Kelly's conviction cements his fall from the heights of pop music, laying bare a timeline of his career—and the abuses he committed as it flourished.
For more than a month, in a Brooklyn federal courtroom, nine women and two men have been revisiting the sexual and physical abuse thatinflicted on them. Over the course of the R&B singer’s racketeering and sex trafficking trial, they told jurors disturbingly consistent stories of his methods of control and punishment. The accounts, roughly as long as sexual-misconduct allegations have trailed Kelly.
In its sweep, the trial in Brooklyn partly amounted to a timeline of Kelly’s career and the abuses he committed as it flourished. The jury found that Kelly sexually exploited a woman testifying under the name Stephanie, who said that the singer began abusing her when she was a 17-year-old in 1999. A woman testifying under the name Jane said that, in 2015, when she was 17, Kelly began abusing her.
As he closed his final arguments on Thursday, Cannick seemed to recognize that, for all the intricacies of the racketeering charges, the jury might consider the case in terms of contemporary mores. “I certainly did not mean to offend when I said people came and lied,” he told the jury, adding, “Whatever you feel about me, don’t take it out on him.”
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