Judgment against R. Kelly: Man states that the singer abused him when he was a student

New York. After several days of testimonies from women who claimed to have been sexually abused and abused by R. Kelly, a man took to the stage on Monday to say the R&B singer exploited him in the same way when he was a high school student.

Witness at trial to Kelly, accused of sex trafficking in New York, testified in Brooklyn federal court without using her real name. He said that Kelly lured him home to the Chicago area in 2007 with fake offers to help him with his fledgling music career..

Kelly asked the alleged victim, then 17, “what he was willing to do for the music,” the witness explained. He said he replied: “I’ll carry your bags … Anything you need I’ll be willing to do”.

“It’s not that. It’s not that,” Kelly added before asking her if she ever fantasized about having sex with men. He described how Kelly “got on her knees and proceeded to give me oral sex” even though “I didn’t like it.”

After that, he stated, “He told me to keep it between him and me.”.

In a subsequent incident, Kelly “snapped her fingers three times” to summon a naked girl hidden under a boxing ring to give oral sex to Kelly and the witness, the man told a jury.

He kept seeing Kelly after that because he “really wanted to succeed in the music industry,” he said.

Kelly, 54, he has repeatedly denied that he has taken advantage of victims during a 30-year career propelled by his hit “I Believe I Can Fly.” His lawyers have portrayed his accusers as “groupies” (fanatics) who lie about their relationship with him.

Previously on Monday, a woman testified that Kelly sexually assaulted her at age 17 after a concert in Miami in 1994. The witness, who also testified without using her name, said Kelly’s friends took her and a friend to the artist’s dressing room after the show and that Kelly took off her shorts and forced her to have unprotected sex.

“I was in a complete state of shock,” the woman said. “I didn’t know what to say at all. Basically, I was left blank.”.

After that, she and her friend “opened the door and ran out,” she said.

In cross-examination, defense attorney Deveraux Cannick pressured the witness as to why, after someone allegedly “raped” her, she waited more than two decades to go to the authorities.

“Because I didn’t want to feel any more shame and trauma,” he replied.