While R. Kelly tries to avoid jail time the jurors will be getting to watch the infamous tape.
Going on its 5th year R. Kelly could be actually facing 15 years in jail for having sex with a girl who was 13 at the time. Yet, the girl who is accused to be in the video tape of the incident states that it is not her on the tape.
Nonetheless Jurors are finally hearing the opening statements of the trial as The New York Times reports. Juror were warned:
"On Tuesday by a prosecutor that they would be required to watch a videotape of an “under-age child performing sex acts that you have never seen before.” In an opening statement in Cook County Criminal Court in Chicago, the prosecutor, Shauna Boliker, said, “A child doesn’t choose to be violated and placed on a videotape, a videotape that will live on forever — long after this child becomes an adult,” The Associated Press reported.
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