First male accuser testifies against R. Kelly in sex-trafficking trial

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After several days of testimony from women claiming they were groomed and sexually abused by R. Kelly, a man took the witness stand at Kelly's sex-trafficking trial to say the R&B star exploited him in the same way when he was a high school student.

, a man took the witness stand at Kelly's sex-trafficking trial in New York City on Monday to say the R&B star exploited him in the same way when he was a high school student.

The witness, testifying in federal court in Brooklyn without using his real name, told a jury how Kelly lured him to his Chicago-area home in 2007 with false offers of helping him with his fledgling music career. Kelly asked the alleged victim, then 17, “what I was willing to do for music,” the witness said. He replied, “I'll carry your bags. ... Anything you need, I'll be willing to do.”

“That's not it. That's not it,” he said Kelly responded before asking him if he ever fantasized about having sex with men. He described how Kelly then “crawled down on his knees and proceeded to give me oral sex," even though “I wasn't into it.”In a later episode, Kelly snapped his fingers to summon a naked girl from where she was hiding under a boxing ring to give Kelly and the witness oral sex, the man told the jury.

Kelly, 54, was charged in July 2019 with racketeering based on sexual exploitation of children, kidnapping, forced labor and

 

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