R&B singer / songwriter R. Kelly facing new charges of raping a minor in Chicago...
From 5 Chicago
Federal prosecutors on Friday made public new charges against R&B singer R. Kelly, alleging that he sexually abused a minor victim for four years, starting in 1997.
The superseding indictment describes the girl as “Minor 6,” who was approximately 14 or 15 years old at the time.
The new charges also detail Kelly’s businesses, Bass Productions, LTD and his co-defendants Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown as orchestrating payments in one case of $200,000 to individuals for their efforts to return to Kelly videotapes that they knew depicted Kelly engaged in sexual acts with minors.
The new filing also asks for the forfeiture of all of Kelly’s financial interests in Bass Productions. Kelly’s next scheduled hearing is March 5.
The singer is scheduled to stand trial in federal court in April in Chicago and again in federal court in Brooklyn in May. He is also set for a Cook County trial in September.
