meeting Kelly when she was just “12 or 13 years old” at a gospel concert at her church. Like several of Kelly’s victims, Jane was a burgeoning performer with aspirations of becoming a singer. After Kelly attended one of her performances with her aunt, with whom he was in a relationship despite being married, Jane visited a recording studio with her aunt and Kelly. That day, he would ask her to “sit on his lap,” “rub his head” and “ask him to be her godfather.
Sickeningly, videotaping his abuse of her also became normal—so much so that recordings were taken at his home, tour bus, and studio. Three of the videos—two of which showed Kelly urinating on her—were played in court as Jane wept. In one video, Kelly simulated paying Jane. When asked why, she testified: “because if anybody saw the tape…he wanted it to appear I was a prostitute.”
When one of the tapes leaked in 2002, Kelly and his business manager, McDavid, met with Jane and her parents in an attempt to get them “on his team” before police became involved. Ultimately, after Jane begged her parents not to speak to authorities, Kelly paid for them to take a trip to the Bahamas and Cancun. Years later, in 2008, the tape served as key evidence of abuse in Kelly’s child pornography trial. However, he was acquitted after Jane declined to testify.
“We are really asking the impossible of you right? To put that all aside,” said Bonjean. “You can think he’s the most amoral, unethical person on the planet, and that has nothing to do with whether the government has met its burden on the charged offenses.”
For a more considered opinion. Sounds good.
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