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R Kelly has been found guilty in his federal child pornography trial.<\/p>\n
The shamed \u201990s R&B sensation, 55, was convicted on Wednesday of six out of 13 counts following a month-long trial in his native Chicago.<\/p>\n
It comes after Kelly \u2013 real name Robert Sylvester Kelly \u2013 had a 30-year prison sentence handed to him in June after he was found guilty of sex-trafficking and racketeering in a separate federal case in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Jurors convicted him in the Chicago trial after 11 hours of deliberation that started on Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Watch video:<\/strong><\/p>\n Kelly was accused of videoing himself having sex with underage girls, as well as of rigging his 2008 state trial on child porn charges, for which he was acquitted.<\/p>\n His co-defendant Derrell McDavid \u2013 Kelly\u2019s former business manager \u2013 was charged with conspiring to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, as well as two counts of receiving child porn.<\/p>\n Another co-defendant, Kelly\u2019s associate Milton Brown, faced a count of conspiring to receive child porn.<\/p>\n Both have been found not guilty on all counts according to CBS Chicago.<\/p>\n Assistant US Attorney Elizabeth Pozolo told jurors: \u201cRobert Kelly abused many girls over many years.<\/p>\n \u201cHe committed horrible crimes against children\u2026 all these years later, the hidden side of Robert Kelly has come out.\u201d<\/p>\n Damning evidence against Kelly included graphic videos of the Grammy-winner abusing his then-14-year-old goddaughter, who became the prosecution\u2019s star witness in the case when she testified under the name Jane.<\/p>\n Pozolo said in her closing argument before the jury retired for deliberations: \u201cThat child, who had no prior sexual experiences in her life, was forced to lay on that floor while that man sitting right over there urinated on her.<\/p>\n \u201cThat degrading act is forever captured on that video. That abuse is forever memorialized.\u201d<\/p>\n Now 37, Jane testified that Kelly had sex with her \u201cinnumerable times\u201d, including with other teenage girls he had asked her to recruit into their relationship.<\/p>\n Kelly\u2019s attorneys branded prosecution witnesses \u201cperjurers, blackmailers and extortionists\u201d.<\/p>\n The new conviction could add years to Kelly\u2019s existing 30-year sentence.<\/p>\n Two further trials are also pending against the singer \u2013 one in Minnesota and another in state court in Chicago.<\/p>\n Related video:<\/strong><\/p>\n