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R. Kelly’s sexual abuse trial: What you need to know
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August 25, 2021
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4:29Now PlayingSinger R. Kelly was arrested in 2019 on charges of sexual abuse and child pornography, and now faces two trials in Chicago and New York.
Kelly is standing trial in the Eastern District of New York over racketeering charges and violations of the Mann Act, which criminalizes sex trafficking across state lines. The charges stem from March 2020, when federal prosecutors in New York outlined them in a superseding indictment that followed charges from the previous year of kidnapping, racketeering, forced labor and sexual exploitation of children.
The federal indictment from July 2019 coincided with another in Illinois that included charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice among its 13 counts. Both indictments arrived mere months after Kelly was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse on the state level. Read moreSubscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube
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