Dahleen Glanton: An alleged sexual assault victim may have lied to help acquit R. Kelly in 2008. Her cooperation this time is an act of bravery
by Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune
Jul 18, 2019
3 minutes
CHICAGO - It was clear from his trial in 2008 that R. Kelly is a bad guy. It was hard to grasp how a jury could have acquitted him of child pornography after watching the videotape that prosecutors said showed him having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
But what choice did they have when the girl in the video, by then a 23-year-old woman, insisted it was not her?
Eleven years ago, the young woman in question, Kelly's goddaughter, wanted nothing to do with prosecutors who were attempting
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