One of the final witnesses described seeing Kelly sexually abusing Aaliyah around 1993, when Aaliyah was only 13 or 14. On cross-examination, Hood admitted the police department fired him in 2007 after a guilty plea in a counterfeit money case, though he got to keep his pension.Ī large chunk of the testimony focused on an infamous scandal involving his youngest and most famous alleged victim: R&B phenom Aaliyah. If he saw that, he added, “As a police officer, I would have had to take action against that.” A defense attorney also asked if he saw his friend lock anyone in a room. On Monday, Larry Hood, a childhood friend who worked security for Kelly as an off-duty Chicago police officer in the early 2000s, claimed he never witnessed Kelly misbehaving with underage girls. Among the troubling tableaus: his entourage locking a radio station intern in a room where he sexually assaulted her while she was passed out witnesses claiming that he gave them herpes without disclosing he had an STD and Kelly shooting a shaming video of one alleged victim showing her smearing feces on her face as punishment for breaking arbitrary rules meant to protect his fragile ego. Kelly's lawyers must find ways to counter testimony from accusers alleging perverse misconduct spanning three decades.

Their accounts were backed at least in part by former Kelly employees whose own testimony suggested they were essentially paid off to look the other way or actively enable the recording artist. The defense began its case later in the day by starting to call Kelly loyalists to the witness stand in an effort to cast doubt on some of the accusers’ accounts.Ī New York City jury has heard several women and two men who were in Kelly's celebrity orbit tell the panel that he groomed them for unwanted sex and psychologically tormented them - mostly when they were teenagers - in episodes dating to the 1990s. Kelly sex trafficking trial ended their case Monday after calling dozens of witnesses over the past month who detailed the government’s sweeping allegations against the singer in lurid detail. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams) (Elizabeth Williams) Septemat 12:58 pm PDT By TOM HAYS Kelly, center, sits with his defense attorneys Thomas Farinella, top, and Nicole Blank Becker during the first day of his defense in his sex trafficking case, Monday, Sept.

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