{"id":644522,"date":"2019-06-01T06:38:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T06:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div> <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"696\" height=\"447\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/06\/1561284709_196_06080513-696x447.jpg\"   alt=\"R&amp;B superstar R. Kelly denied allegations he sexually abused women and g"},"modified":"2019-06-01T06:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T06:38:31","slug":"r-kelly-charged-with-fresh-counts-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/01\/r-kelly-charged-with-fresh-counts-of-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly charged with fresh counts of sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"447\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/1561284709_196_06080513-696x447.jpg\"   alt=\"R&amp;B superstar R. Kelly denied allegations he sexually abused women and girls in his first public comments since being indicted last month.\" title=\"R&amp;B superstar R. Kelly denied allegations he sexually abused women and girls in his first public comments since being indicted last month.\"\/><\/div>\n<p>American singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, known by his stage name, R. Kelly, has been charged with additional criminal counts involving a victim he allegedly abused sexually 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago prosecutors on Thursday filed 11 felonies in what his attorney, Steve Greenberg, said was a refiling of counts from an existing case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest counts are re-filed charges from an allegation from 10 years ago and not a new case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the same conduct, just charged differently, the same alleged victim, same time frame, same facts. It changes nothing, Greenberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly is already facing 10 felony charges, filed in February, for the alleged abuse of four women.<\/p>\n<p>The R&amp;B singer will appear in court June 6 on the new charges.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, known by his stage name, R. Kelly, has been charged with additional criminal counts involving a victim he allegedly abused sexually 10 years ago. Chicago prosecutors on Thursday filed 11 felonies in what his attorney, Steve Greenberg, said was a refiling of counts from an existing case. \u201cThe latest counts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[718,1172,1174,1173,1171,630],"class_list":["post-644522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood","tag-assault","tag-charged","tag-counts","tag-fresh","tag-kelly","tag-sexual"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R. 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