The witnesses just keep on coming. R Kelly's former personal assistant, Linda Perryman, has reluctantly id'd her former boss and the alleged victim as the couple on the sex tape at the center of the R Kelly child pornography trial...She testified that R Kelly had done so much for her personally and professionally that she did not want to identify him as the man on the tape unless she was absolutely certain.” I was in shock and I wanted to be 110 percent sure," she said. Linda told the jury the she first met the alleged victim in 1999, when she showed up at the studio one evening with her parents and younger brother. The girl, who was carrying a pillow and an overnight bag, was introduced as a goddaughter of both Kelly and his wife, Andrea. Though the former assistant was often sent to pick up the alleged victim after school and take her to Kelly's home or studio, Linda said she never suspected anything inappropriate about the girl's relationship with the singer. The girl's father was a guitarist for Kelly, and her mother also had an office at the recording studio, she testified.
So far, 11 witnesses have identified R Kelly and the victim, including one cousin who said he was not absolutely sure, but admitted that the girl on the video and his cousin had similar looking bone structure, but he told the jury it was hard to believe his relative would accept money to perform sex acts like the female participant does in the video. "It's not her character at all," he said.
The next witness expected on the stand is a woman who claims to have participated in a threesome with R Kelly and his underage lover.
