R&B superstar R Kelly was charged Friday in Chicago with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sex abuse against four victims, three of them minors. Kim Foxx — the State’s Attorney for Cook County, which includes Chicago — told journalists the alleged crimes occurred between 1998 and 2010. The musician has a court date scheduled for March 8 in Chicago, where he resides, a Cook County clerk said. It’s the second time Chicago prosecutors have charged Kelly with a sex crime: after a dramatic trial that also involved a sex tape, the musician was acquitted of 21 counts of child pornography in 2008. – ‘About damn time’ –Kelly infamously is known for marrying his protegee Aaliyah in 1994, when the late R&B star was 15.

Source: Pakistan Today February 22, 2019 23:26 UTC