Injustice strikes again.

This artists rendering shows R&B singer R. Kelly, right, watching in court as prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of his child pornography trial in open court in Chicago on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B singer of choreographing and starring in the footage with an underage girl. (AP Photo/Lou Chukman)

R Kelly, a celebrity R&B musician in Chicago, has been on trial. With a video tape showing him and a 14 year old cousin engaging in various sex acts, 4 family witnesses ID’ing the girl and many more witnesses ID’ing him, it still seems the jury couldn’t seem to find the man guilty. The fact that they allowed it to go for 4 years before going to trial, the young cousin refused to testify in the trial and denied it was her in the video, and the fact that all the other complaint’s on file (he seems to be a habitual pedophile!) were deemed inadmissible, probably has something to do with it. There are also many fans in Chicago who love this guy, there is a well documented level of corruption in the Chicago legal system… all in all, I think this man got away with this despicable crime (personal opinion). Now that he has probably paid out a lot of cash to “fix his problem”, I’m sure he will carry on with molesting little girls. I will be waiting for him to do this to someone’s child who can’t be paid off and won’t go away. No doubt, we will be hearing about this jerk again.

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4 witnesses ID alleged victim in R. Kelly trial

By MICHAEL TARM – May 22, 2008 – Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors trying to prove that a woman appeared in a sex tape with R. Kelly when she was underage — over her protestations that she didn’t — have turned to one of her childhood friends, the friend’s father and two relatives.

The R&B superstar is accused in the child pornography trial of videotaping himself having sex with a girl who may have been as young as 13. His attorneys have said Kelly is not on the tape and the alleged victim, now 23, denies she’s the person in the video.

To try to make their case, prosecutors put Simha Jamison, 24, on the stand Wednesday. She said she and the alleged victim were best friends for about 10 years, until their junior year in high school, and that she recognizes her friend as the one in the tape.

When prosecutors asked Jamison if she recognized the man in the tape, she leaned forward in the witness stand, peeked around the corner of the judge’s bench and identified Kelly.

She testified that she and her friend visited Kelly at his recording studio and at a Chicago basketball court dozens of times, starting when they were around the age of 12.

Her friend first introduced her to Kelly as “her godfather,” Jamison said, adding that the singer frequently gave her friend cash gifts — “no less than $100 and no more than $500.”

She said the two also visited the home where authorities say the sex tape was filmed between Jan. 1, 1998, and Nov. 1, 2000. Jamison said her friend never mentioned a sexual relationship with the star.

Defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. said the reason the alleged victim never told the witness she was having a sexual relationship with Kelly was because there wasn’t one and “because it’s not her on the tape.”

“Are you asking or telling me?” Jamison shot back.

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