A second R. Kelly accuser has taken the stand in his Chicago federal trial and testified the singer had sexual contact along with her greater than 80 instances when she was underage.

The now-37-year-old lady, testifying below the pseudonym “Pauline,” was greatest buddies with “Jane,” Kelly’s goddaughter. When she was about 14 years outdated she went on the lookout for Jane at Kelly’s residence and located her bare, kneeling in entrance of Kelly, she testified.

“He informed me he was simply on the lookout for bruises on her, as a result of she damage herself,” she mentioned. “I informed him that ‘that’s not the way you search for bruises’ and he mentioned that’s how he appeared for bruises … then he acknowledged that ‘all of us have secrets and techniques.’”

Kelly directed her to have sexual contact with him and Jane, and the three started to have sexual interactions usually — dozens or perhaps a whole lot of instances when Pauline was ages 14 to 16, she testified. Kelly would supply her with alcohol — particularly, Hypnotiq.

Pauline testified she additionally had threesomes with Kelly and one other lady, “Brittany.” Kelly would videorecord the encounters — “he had tripods and cameras within the room” — and hold the tapes in a health club bag, she testified.

When Pauline was contacted by Chicago police in 2001, she recognized Jane in a photograph, however solely as a result of Pauline’s mom was within the room and likewise would have acknowledged Jane.

Later, testifying earlier than a Prepare dinner County grand jury, Pauline additionally recognized Jane. However she lied and mentioned she had by no means seen Kelly have sexual contact with Jane, she mentioned.

Pauline remained in a relationship with Kelly for years as an grownup. When she was 20, she made a telephone name to his studio posing as “Brittany” and requested for cash.

“Properly, he referred to as it extortion, I referred to as it ‘don’t play with me,’” she testified. She was simply making an attempt to get his consideration since she hadn’t heard from him shortly, she mentioned.

“Ladies get mad and say silly stuff and need to slap you or bust your automobile home windows out. It was only a menace. He knew that. If he didn’t know that he wouldn’t have had me round all these years,” Pauline mentioned.

Pauline nonetheless feels affection for Kelly, she mentioned.

“I liked him and I nonetheless love him,” she testified. “… In a bizarre approach, I do know you may decide me, however it’s like greatest good friend meets boyfriend meets dad.”

Federal prosecutors may relaxation their case in chief towards R. Kelly this week because the disgraced R&B singer’s trial strikes into its second half.

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Earlier than the prosecution rests, jurors are anticipated to listen to from extra ladies who say Kelly sexually abused them after they have been underage. The trial’s first week targeted on “Jane,” who recognized herself because the lady being sexually abused by Kelly in three separate movies from the Nineteen Nineties.

A kind of movies turned the topic of Kelly’s 2008 Prepare dinner County trial, throughout which he was acquitted of child-pornography fees — as a result of, prosecutors now allege, Kelly and his associates went to nice lengths to maintain “Jane” quiet and get better different incriminating footage.

Witnesses final week largely targeted on these efforts. Three folks testified that Kelly’s workforce paid them to convey him movies of his do-it-yourself youngster pornography whereas he was awaiting his Prepare dinner County trial. Protection attorneys, throughout prolonged cross-examinations, have challenged their tales as inconsistent and tried to color them as unreliable extortionists.

Kelly, 55, is charged with 13 counts of manufacturing of kid pornography, conspiracy to provide youngster pornography and conspiracy to hinder justice.

Additionally on trial are former Kelly associates Derrel McDavid and Milton “June” Brown, who, in accordance with the indictment, schemed to purchase again incriminating intercourse tapes that had been taken from Kelly’s assortment and conceal years of alleged sexual abuse of underage women.

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