June 13, 2008 @ 4:32 pm

R. Kelly Jury Reaches Verdict

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R&B star acquitted of all 14 counts of child pornography

After six years of testimonies, protests, tears, and outrage, the time everyone has been waiting for is finally here: the jury has reached a verdict in the R. Kelly trial, and decided the singer was not guilty.

Robert Kelly was charged of 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with a 13-year-old girl (who’s now 23 and denied it was her on the tape). The unidentified female, and Kelly, never testified.

The jury— made up of nine men and three women, one being a preacher’s wife from Chicago— began deliberating on Thursday, taking the sex tape with them. If found guilty, Kelly, 41 would’ve faced up to 15 years in prison and would have had to register as a sex offender in Illinois, CNN reports.

Though things looked bleak for the Pied Piper of R&B, Kelly’s defense team drove home evidence of the man in the sex tape does not have a mole…Kelly reportedly has a mole.

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