R. Kelly, a troubled US musician, has been convicted in Chicago of child pornography.
In his second sex crimes trial in two years, a federal jury in Chicago found R. Kelly guilty of creating child pornography and assaulting kids, according to the Associated Press.
The musician is currently undergoing trials despite having previously been found guilty of sex trafficking in June.
Prosecutors were able to show that he operated a decade-long sex trafficking operation out of his music company, and he is now serving a 30-year term for it.
Tuesday marked the start of the jury’s deliberations after weeks of victim evidence.
The most recent trial in Chicago focused on the sex recordings that were a part of the 2008 child pornography trial in Illinois, when Kelly was exonerated because the witness chose not to testify.
The artist, real name Robert Sylvester Kelly, 55, was charged with filming himself having sex with minors.
Out of the 13 charges he was charged with, he was found guilty on six of them, including three for child pornography and three for kidnapping.
Earlier this month, a witness said that Kelly had sex with her “countless” times before she became 18 years old.
Kelly has been charged with sexually abusing kids and young people on many occasions during the 1990s.
The 2019 Lifetime documentary “Surviving R Kelly,” which probed accusations that Kelly’s network of followers shielded him and kept his victims silent for decades, brought attention to the assault allegations against Kelly.
Kelly was taken into custody by federal agents in Chicago back in 2019 and moved to New York in June of the same year.
The singer has continuously denied any wrongdoing. She is best known for the 1996 blockbuster single “I Believe I Can Fly.”