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R. Kelly Trial: Relatives Claim Victim Isn't in Tape, Defense Team Discredit Star Witness

Posted Jun 5th 2008 12:30PM by Tracey Ford
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Relatives of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case took the stand Wednesday and denied that their relative is the same girl that appears in the infamous sex tape. Four family members testified earlier in the case that the underage girl is in fact their relative.

Leroy Edwards Jr., the alleged victim's uncle, admitted during cross examination that the high profile case has split their family in half. The victim's cousin, Shonna Edwards, 27, took the stand and testified that she doesn't recognize the female in the sex tape. "It definitely wasn't her," Edwards claimed, adding that the girl -- who would've been about 13 years old when the tape was made -- was too developed to be their relative.

The defense team tried another strategy and attempted to discredit the prosecution's star witness, Lisa Van Allen, who testified on Monday that she engaged in a threesome with the Grammy award-winning singer and the alleged victim. Kelly's attorneys claim Allen and her fiance asked for $300,000 in exchange for their silence.

The 41-year-old crooner is charged with 14 counts of child pornography for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl. If convicted, Kelly faces up to 15 years in prison. Read the full story.

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vil4real

What? There are no pictures of this girl when she was 13 that they can compare to the video? She didn't take school pictures? How much money do you take to compromise your own integrity? Only the relative that would let an obvious pediphile go free knows the price of ones own integrity and self respect.

To say that you don't recognize the man in the video is insane and only shows that you have sold yourself and family member out to greed. Stevie Wonder would have even said I'm not saying that the man in the video is R. Kelly, but he bear a strong resemblance to him. Pleease.

I hope that when they sleep at night that the faces of all those pain striken and dismember bodies, and mental states of of past and present pedophilia run through their dreams.

The children are our future...we must proptect them.

"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18:10, King James Version).

June 05 2008 at 4:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply