'I have some teenage pals ..but I don't like anyone that's illegal' RAP STAR R KELLY ON BEING CLEARED OF CHILD PORN.Byline: BY PAUL MARTIN SHOWBIZ REPORTER R&B star R Kelly has spoken publicly for the first time about his hell after facing child pornography Child pornography is the visual representation of minors under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity or the visual representation of minors engaging in lewd or erotic behavior designed to arouse the viewer's sexual interest. charges. The singer was cleared on all counts of illegal behaviour by a US court earlier this year. And now The I Believe I Can Fly star, 41, said he had come out of the experience stronger and hoped to move on with his life and career. Asked by Black Entertainment Television if he had a weakness for teenage girls, he replied: "When you say teenage, how old do you mean? "I have some 19-year-old friends but I don't like anyone illegal, if that's what we are talking about, underage." It is three months since a jury acquitted the star of filming a sex video with an underage girl. R Kelly, whose real name is Robert Kelly There are severable notable individuals named Robert Kelly:
He also claimed the accusations had come from disgruntled dis·grun·tle tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles To make discontented. [dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see former employees. Signalling his desire to draw a line under the scandal, the singer said: "It's time for me to move on. I can't keep answering these questions. "If you were charged with something and found innocent, then you can't be found guilty for being found innocent." He was charged in 2002 with 21 counts of making and owning child pornography. Some charges were later dropped. After a six-year delay, he went on trial in his home city of Chicago earlier this year. The case centred around a sex tape which had turned up in bootleg form before being passed to the authorities. During the month-long hearing, friends and family members of his alleged victim came forward to identify her as being 13 or 14 years old. R Kelly's lawyers argued the tape was a fake, made as part of a conspiracy to extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of money from him. Jury members later said they thought he was the man on the tape but could not be certain about the identity of the girl as she had not taken the stand. If you were charged with something and found innocent then you can't be found guilty for being found innocent CAPTION(S): ORDEAL ordeal, ancient legal custom whereby an accused person was required to perform a test, the outcome of which decided the person's guilt or innocence. By an ordeal, appeal was made to divine authority to decide the guilt or innocence of one accused of a crime or to R Kelly was accused of having child porn; ACCLAIMED On stage |
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