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Chicago prosecutors drop R. Kelly sexual abuse charges - The Washington Post

Chicago prosecutors drop R. Kelly sexual abuse charges - The Washington Post

Chicago prosecutors drop R. Kelly sexual abuse charges - The Washington Post
Jan 31, 2023 1 min, 20 secs

Comment on this storyA top Chicago prosecutor said her office will be dropping sexual abuse charges against R. Kelly because the singer is already likely to spend the rest of his life in prison following his convictions in federal courts.

Under these conditions, and facing what she described as “limited” resources, Foxx on Monday said she made the decision to drop her office’s charges against Kelly, and to instead focus on finding “justice for other victims of sexual abuse.”

The move to drop state charges in Illinois is the latest development in a years-long legal battle to hold Kelly accountable for what prosecutors have described as his decades-long sexual and physical abuse of women and girls.

The Cook County prosecutors publicly called for any victims to come forward, and in building their case, relied on the testimony of three accusers — two of whom were minors when they said Kelly repeatedly sexually abused them — and the testimony of a witness who gave the State’s Attorney Office a video said to have shown Kelly having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

On Monday, Foxx — who has said that she is a survivor of sexual assault — praised the accusers’ “courage” in coming forward with their stories, and acknowledged that her decision to drop the charges against Kelly “may be disappointing” to “those seeking to have their day in court here, in Illinois.”

The Washington Post reported in 2018 that “for more than two decades, the recording industry turned a blind eye to Kelly’s behavior as his career continued to thrive and he was afforded every luxury of a chart-topping superstar.”

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