One of R. Kelly’s alleged victims has revealed how the “Step In The Name Of Love” singer had refused to delete several explicit tapes he filmed of her while detailing the mental mind games she endured during her time with him. The woman, who is only identified by her first name, Stephanie, opened up about her experience with R. Kelly, who will be sentenced in New York tomorrow, after being found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering last year.
In court documents obtained by Radar Online, Stephanie said she was exploited by R. Kelly at the age of 17, and that after being sexually abused by the latter, who reportedly recorded many of her intimate moments, said he was not going to destroy the explicit footage he had taken of her without consent.
“That was the definitely hardest time of my life,” she told investigators. “I had a very low self-esteem. I had already been through sexual trauma and abuse within my family, by my first boss, by men on the street. It was the hardest time of my life. I was very vulnerable.”
Court docs further described how she had asked R. Kelly on multiple occasions to get rid of the videotapes he made of her, going as far as to plead with him, but the “Happy People” chart-topper was vehemently against the idea.
Another victim named Jerhonda said she was only 16 when she was abused by R. Kelly as she broke down while giving her testimony, stating she was slapped three times after the self-proclaimed Pied Piper accused her of lying to him.
“I went to [Kelly’s] house and Rob called me a silly, a silly b——,” she said. “[Kelly] slapped me three times. He said if I lie to him again it’s not going to be an open hand next time. He spit in my face and in my mouth. And he slapped me in my face again for the fourth time. He choked me during an argument. I had sex with him. I had oral sex with him. And I became fed up with him and went home and confessed [to my mother].
R. Kelly is looking at a minimum of 25 years in prison for his crimes against a heap of people, most of who were underage at the time the sexual abuse occurred. After being found guilty last year, the court believed he’d been running a criminal enterprise for decades which was rooted around the recruitment of young women he would go on to abuse.