R. Kelly‘s s.e.x-trafficking trial continued into a seventh day in federal court Thursday with the prosecution calling a third complaining witness to testify that when she was 17, Kelly subjected her to a months-long s.e.xual relationship in which she was alternately terrorized and humiliated by his behavior and rage.
Weeping several times, the witness, who called herself “Stephanie” on the stand, said she sought out Kelly in Chicago in 1999 to help a friend with her singing aspirations. Instead, she wound up in what she described as an abusive relationship in which he frequently videotaped their sexual encounters.
She said she won’t ever forget parts of the year 1999. “Because that was the lowest time of my life,” she said, crying. “I’ll never forget the way he treated me. She said Kelly would sometimes be “jovial” and then he would erupt in profane rages. He could put the fear of God in me,” she testified.
His sexual demands and his frequent videotaping of her in humiliating positions left her “disgusted” and feeling “less than,” she told the jury. Once he flew her to Orlando but only saw her once over a long weekend, bringing her to a studio so he could record her giving him oral sex. She said she was crying on the way back to Chicago.
“I felt used, humiliated, degraded, she said. Another time, she said, he had her give him oral sex while others were in a SUV. She described Kelly as quick to blow up over seemingly trivial matters, such as when she once asked about the whereabouts of someone in his entourage. She said he cursed her out and said, “Don’t ever ask about another man to me!
Once he told her he would pick her up at the studio and take her to his home, telling her he wanted to make a video of them having sex, she said. She called her friend who told her to get out of there. Why did she go through with it, she was asked. I felt like I didn’t have a choice,” she said.
Why did she continue seeing him six or seven times a month for about six months, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nadia Shihata asked her. She said that he had sex tapes of her and she wanted to be in good standing with him so she could get the tapes. She never did, she said.
Source: usatoday
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