Chicago -- The young woman allegedly at the center of the R. Kelly child pornography scandal is expected to testify at the singer’s trial in Chicago next month.
Kelly’s attorneys plan to call to the stand the woman prosecutors claim was the underage girl in a raunchy video that led to Kelly's arrest more than five years ago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday.
The woman, who turns 23 in September, is expected to deny she is the girl in the video, which shows a man prosecutors say is Kelly engaging in sex acts with and urinating on the child.
Although her friends, relatives, friend’s parents and others are expected to testify she was the girl in the video, and appears to be about 14 when it was made, the woman and her parents have contradicted these claims.
The 40-year-old singer-songwriter, who has sold 37 million albums, faces up to 15 years in prison, if convicted.
His trial is scheduled to start on Sept. 17 and is expected to last three to four weeks.
Submitted by Stopdamadness (not verified) on Tue, 2007-08-07 17:36. *
Let me just say, I love R. Kelly. I wish he wasnt involved in such an awful scandal. I pray along with him that all this goes away and that the outcome of the trial is favorable. I am not the judge and jury and from the way I see it if the young women who were the alleged victims dont want to testify than so be it-maybe there is nothing there. R. Kelly is an entertainer and the world's sexiest one at that-too bad so sad these young girls have put themselves in harms way. If anyone should be held accountable it should be the alleged victims parents-they sure are wonton in their duties to protect and nurture their own daughters. With the way these so called "children" young women act with their trying to be grown and sexy they are getting just what they are asking for-I am a grown woman and I would gladly switch places with them-R. Kelly is too much man for you to handle-let us grown women work him down. I apologize if I offend child advocates-thats not my purpose-but as always the media and the law are jumping on a highly publicized case and to make another talented black man suffer unnecessarily. I dont see no one complaining about this but the haters!
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Let me just say, I love R. Kelly. I wish he wasnt involved in such an awful scandal. I pray along with him that all this goes away and that the outcome of the trial is favorable. I am not the judge and jury and from the way I see it if the young women who were the alleged victims dont want to testify than so be it-maybe there is nothing there. R. Kelly is an entertainer and the world's sexiest one at that-too bad so sad these young girls have put themselves in harms way. If anyone should be held accountable it should be the alleged victims parents-they sure are wonton in their duties to protect and nurture their own daughters. With the way these so called "children" young women act with their trying to be grown and sexy they are getting just what they are asking for-I am a grown woman and I would gladly switch places with them-R. Kelly is too much man for you to handle-let us grown women work him down. I apologize if I offend child advocates-thats not my purpose-but as always the media and the law are jumping on a highly publicized case and to make another talented black man suffer unnecessarily. I dont see no one complaining about this but the haters!