‘I Was Afraid Of What Might Happen To My Parents’ – R. Kelly Victim Finally Reveals Why She Lied

A victim in the R. Kelly case has finally revealed why she lied to authorities.

Known under the pseudonym Jane, the 37-year-old victim confessed to having lied.

When the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services began investigating an allegation Kelly was having a s3xual relationship with Jane in April 2000 when she was 15, Jane testified she denied the relationship. She also testified she later denied to Chicago Police investigators she and Kelly had a s3xual relationship.

But she reversed her earlier testimony on Thursday.

Recordings of her testimony about the s3xual act with the popular singer were shown by prosecutors. She couldn’t hold back her tears.

“How old were you when the sexual acts depicted in those recordings occurred?” asked Assistant US Attorney Jeannice Appenteng.

“14,” testified Jane, who is expected to retake the stand Friday.
According to her, Kelly began engaging in sex acts with her when she was 14 and had sexual intercourse with her starting when she was 15 “hundreds” of times before she turned 18.

Jane is one of five minors who prosecutors allege Kelly s3xually abused in the late 1990s, making explicit videos with four of them. Kelly faces charges including producing and receiving child pornography, enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity and obstruction charges. He has pleaded not guilty.

An attorney for Kelly asked jurors during opening statements Wednesday to scrutinize why Jane is coming forward now and changing her testimony from two decades ago.

“For the last 22 years, she has adamantly denied that it was her in that video. Before there was any criminal investigation, she denied it. She denied it repeatedly to prosecutors, she denied it to social workers to police officers. She denied it under oath to a grand jury,” Jennifer Bonjean said Wednesday.

Jane stated that she is testifying under immunity because she lied under oath to a 2002 grand jury about her s3xual relationship with Kelly and whether she appears in the explicit video recordings with him when she was on the witness stand Thursday.

“If I correct my mistakes by telling the truth, I won’t be prosecuted,” Jane said.

“Why were you untruthful?” Appenteng asked Jane at another point.
“Because I was afraid to expose Robert. Because I was afraid of what might happen to my parents,” she said. “I also did not want that person to be me.”