After a month-long trial in his hometown of Chicago, humiliated R&B singer R. Kelly, who is serving a 30-year term for sex assaults, was convicted guilty of child pornography charges on Wednesday.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted of three charges of manufacturing child pornography and three counts of enticement of a juvenile.
According to the newspaper, Kelly, a three-time Grammy Award winner, was acquitted on seven other counts, including charges of obstructing justice in a previous trial.
The veteran RnB singer and two former collaborators were accused of rigging the singer’s 2008 child pornography trial, in which a jury found him not guilty.
Kelly’s former manager, Derrel McDavid, and an ex-employee, Milton “June” Brown, were also acquitted of obstruction charges on Wednesday.
Kelly was convicted in September in New York of soliciting sex from juveniles and women.
He was found guilty of eight counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering in the New York case. His arrest and sentencing in the state was generally regarded as a watershed moment in the #MeToo movement, as it was the first significant sex assault trial in which the majority of accusers were Black women.
R. Kelly is also being prosecuted in two other states.
