The R&B singer R. Kelly was a 'predator' who used his celebrity status to lure victims to be abused, a prosecutor said in opening statements of his federal trial in New York, calling him the center of a criminal enterprise that operated for decades.
Brooklyn, NY The R&B singer R. Kelly was a"predator" who used his celebrity status to lure victims to be abused, a prosecutor said in opening statements of his federal trial in New York Wednesday, calling him the center of a criminal enterprise that operated for decades.
"This case is about a predator," Assistant US Attorney Maria Cruz Melendez said in the Brooklyn courtroom."A man who, for decades, used his fame, his popularity and a network of people at his disposal to target girls, boys and young women for his own sexual gratification."Kelly's defense attorney, in contrast, told jurors that many of the charges against him are"overreaching" and that many of the relationships Kelly had were consensual.
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