R. Kelly pleads not guilty to 11 new sex crime charges
By AFP
07 June 2019 |
11:20 am
R&B star R. Kelly pleads not guilty to 11 new felony sex crime charges. The charges were a refiling of one of the four cases of alleged abuse that prosecutors lodged against the singer earlier this year.
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