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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

R. Kelly trial: Prosecutors rest case after multiple women testify about alleged abuse as minors

R. Kelly walks into the Daley Center for a hearing in a child support case on March 6, 2019 in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file photo)

Federal prosecutors in Chicago rested their case Tuesday against R&B singer R. Kelly, who they say filmed his sexual abuse of an underage girl in the 1990s and thwarted attempts to prosecute him in the 2000s.

Jurors heard from more than 20 government witnesses over two weeks, including four women who said they were sexually abused as minors by the R&B superstar decades ago, when Kelly was at the peak of his Grammy-award winning career.

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