When he found what he thought was a recording of R Kelly in concert, but it instead turned out to show a man, appearing to be R Kelly sexually abusing girls, he and his attorney stated.
When Gary Dennis was cleaning out an old videotape collection he was not expecting to find what could prove to be the final nail in the coffin of a once great R&B singer.
When he found what he thought was a recording of R Kelly in concert, but it instead turned out to show a man, appearing to be R Kelly sexually abusing girls, he and his attorney stated.
Gary would not discuss the specifics of the tape during a news conference in New York on Sunday afternoon. Attorney Gloria Allred said it appears to show a separate incidence from the 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse Kelly faces in Chicago. She did however acknowledge she could not be “100% certain” that the man in the video is R Kelly.
Dennis, an assistant at a nursing home, said he was cleaning out a box of old VHS tapes in his home when he found the footage. He said he has never met Kelly and does not know how the tape came to be in his possession. He said that because the tape also has a sports game on it, he believes it may have come from a friend.
“To my shock and surprise, R Kelly appeared to be on the tape but not in concert, instead he was sexually abusing underage African American girls.” Dennis said.
Allred said they assume the girls in the video were underage because they did not appear to have developed.
Steve Greenberg, an attorney for Kelly said the question being asked should be “what are these people doing possessing what they obviously believe is child pornography in their VHS collection and what are the authorities going to do”.
The charges Kelly faces in Chicago are in connection to three girls and one woman. Prosecutors have said they have a video of Kelly abusing one of the girls.
Greenberg said it was “now just open season” on Kelly.
The singer has been trailed for decades by allegations he victimised women and girls. He was acquitted of child pornography charges in 2008, related to a tape prosecutors said showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13.
He and his attorneys have repeatedly denied allegations of sexual misconduct, and he has pleaded not guilty to the charges filed in Chicago.
