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New Witness comes forward as R. Kelly is surrounded by Sexual Misconduct accusers

Updated On 08 Mar, 2019 Published On 08 Mar, 2019
New Witness comes forward as R. Kelly is surrounded by Sexual Misconduct accusers

R. Kelly was charged in Chicago with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse counting the most recent one.

  • Accusers surround R. Kelly of sexual misconduct with 10 counts along with a new witness.
  • Two victims, Rochelle Washington, and Latresa Scaff came forward accusing Mr. Kelly of sexual misconduct two decades back.
  • The 52 years old R&B singer got indicted as from the reports of Cook County state on February 22.
  • Gloria Allred, the victim's lawyer warned Kelly saying 'You've nowhere to run and nowhere to hide'.

More than two decades, the R&B singer R. Kelly's path trailed by allegations of sexual misconduct. Once, he married a young singer of 15 years old who also claims about him, controlling women in a cultlike atmosphere.

R. Kelly turns himself into the police in Chicago on Friday night to face sexual abuse charges. SOURCE: NY Times

Followed by a various sex scandal, now the 52 years old singer got indicted as from the reports of Cook County state on February 22.

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The attorney of the state, Kim Foxx accused Mr.Kelly of criminal sexual abuse involving four victims of which three of them were underage.

On Thursday, two more women came forward accusing the R&B star of sexual abuse while they were minors. Even though the women didn't publically speak previously about the misconducts, but later accused R.Kelly of it.

On their accounts, the women made accusations at a news conference organized by their lawyer, Gloria Allred in New York.

Latresa Scaff, and Rochelle Washington at the afterparty the night of concert at Baltimore.
SOURCE: NY Times

Rochelle Washington, 39, and Latresa Scaff, 40, of Maryland, said they met the singer, Robert Kelly two decades back. Both victims of the sexual abuse claimed that the incident took place going after a concert in Baltimore in 1995 or 1996.

Latresa claimed that R.Kelly abused her sexually under the influence of alcohol and marijuana just at the age of 16 at the afterparty. 

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In addition, Scaff admitted that she was very happy back then and excited about it because she was young and star-struck. But later, she realizes that it was a mistake and talks about getting hurt when she became an adult.

Most importantly, their lawyer Gloria sent a message saying;

You've nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. You've been able to get away with your predatory misconduct for far too long. And to date, the only ones who have paid the price of your misconduct have been the young women who alleged that you've victimized them. Now all of that has changed!

Mr. Kelly faced accusations of sexual misconduct and abuse for decades but had never been convicted. Well, it's his time to defend on the court.

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