R.&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty Wednesday of soliciting underage girls to have sex with him, but not guilty of obstruction in a 2008 state case that ended in his acquittal, according to media reports.
In his most recent trial, Kelly — whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly — was found guilty on six of 13 federal counts, CBS Chicago reported.
A US District Court jury in Chicago found the 55-year-old multi-platinum musician guilty of multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a child, seduction of a woman and possession of material containing child pornography.
Kelly is one of the most high-profile people convicted of sexual misconduct during the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault in recent years.
During the five-week trial, several women took the stand and told jurors that Kelly had sexually abused them when they were minors.
Jurors also saw a video of Kelly abusing her goddaughter, which showed the abuse began in the 1990s when she was a teenager.
Kelly and two of his co-defendants, Milton “June” Brown and Derrell McDavid, were acquitted of conspiracy to obtain child pornography. Kelly and McDavid were also acquitted of conspiracy to obstruct justice in Kelly’s 2002 Cook County case, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The men were accused of attempting to bribe and threaten witnesses in a 2008 Illinois case in which Kelly was found not guilty of 14 counts of child pornography.
In June, Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a New York federal court on racketeering and prostitution charges.
That trial intensified charges that have dogged the Grammy-winning singer of the “I Believe I Can Fly” hit for two decades.
Kelly also faces various state charges in Illinois and Minnesota.
