2 More Women Testified They Engaged In Sex Acts With R. Kelly While Under Age

Aug 30, 2022

RawNews1st– 2 More Women Testified They Engaged In Sex Acts With R. Kelly While Under Age.

The third week of R. Kelly’s federal child pornography trial resumed Monday as two more women testified that they repeatedly engaged in sexual activity with the now-disgraced R&B superstar while they were minors.

Both women — one now 37, the other 40 — also said Kelly recorded the interactions in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Tracy said Monday that she met Kelly in the spring of 1999 when she was 16. Her boss, Cathy Carroll, introduced Tracy to Kelly at a basketball gym downtown.

The teen girls later called the number, and Kelly invited them to come to his recording studio on North Larrabee Street. Alone with Kelly at the studio, Tracy said, she and the singer started kissing on a couch.

“When I looked down, he had exposed himself,” Tracy said.

As she tried to pull away, Kelly grabbed her shirt while pleasuring himself, she said. After he ejaculated on Tracy and himself, “he cleaned himself off and was really apologetic,” she said.

Throughout the first two weeks of the trial, Kelly’s defense team has sought to demonstrate that some of the government’s complaining witnesses were of legal age when they engaged in sex acts with Kelly.

Before Tracy took the stand, another woman — identified as “Pauline” — testified that she was introduced to Kelly by “Jane” — the government’s star witness and Pauline’s childhood friend — when she was 14 years old.

Pauline told jurors that she was 15 years old when she first engaged in sexual activity with Kelly, and she later had threesomes with Kelly and “Jane,” which Kelly recorded on video. Pauline said she and Kelly engaged in intercourse at least 80 times when she was between 15 and 16 years old.

“Yes, he abused me but I really loved him and we were in a relationship,” Pauline said.