R. Kelly's lawyer says Aaliyah can't testify about being a victim in court case because she's dead
Channel: MentalHouse TV w/Khadijah
Date: 2021-08-20

A defense attorney for R. Kelly questioned the charges he faces in his federal sex crimes trial surrounding his marriage to Aaliyah, pointing out that the iconic R&B singer is dead and can't testify against him.

In part of their wide-ranging indictment against Kelly, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn alleging he instructed an employee to bribe a government official to produce a fake ID for Aaliyah in 1994.

Kelly, who was 27 at the time, then married Aaliyah, who was only 15. Prosecutors said Kelly first met Aaliyah when she was 12 years old, and alleged he started regularly having sex with her shortly afterward.

Assistant US Attorney Maria Cruz Melendez said in Wednesday's opening statements that procuring the fake ID was part of a harebrained scheme to silence Aaliyah. Aaliyah had told Kelly - whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly - that she was pregnant, Cruz Melendez said.

Kelly believed Aaliyah couldn't make any criminal allegations of sexual misconduct against him if they were married, the prosecutor said, so he paid a local official $500 for a fake ID for the 15-year-old - then flew out to a Chicago hotel suite in the middle of the night and married her there.

The marriage was annulled less than a year later. Aaliyah was killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas in 2001.

The sex abuse trial for R&B singer R. Kelly, 54, began in Brooklyn's Federal District Court Wednesday  
In opening statements, prosecutors branded Kelly a 'predator' whose fame 'brought him access to girls, boys, and young women
The defense told jurors not to 'assume everyone is telling the truth' and that his alleged victims were 'fans' who enjoyed the 'notoriety of being able to tell their friends that they were with a superstar' 
The judge earlier threw out the defense's final last-ditch attempt to dismiss the case 
Kelly is accused of leading an underage sex ring where victims allegedly had to call him 'Daddy' and had to ask his permission to use the bathroom 
He is charged with one count of racketeering, including 14 acts, and eight counts of violating the Mann Act 






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