R. Kelly's Lawyer Calls Singer 'Sacrificial Lamb' After Sex Abuse Charges
R. Kelly’s lawyer held a press conference Friday night outside the Chicago police station where the singer turned himself in to face 10 charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
“I suspect this is succumbing to public pressure,” Kelly’s lawyer Steven Greenberg told the media. “I think [prosecutors] shouldn’t have rushed to judgment. He’s an innocent man.”
On Friday, the Cook County State’s Attorney indicted Kelly on 10 counts based on the singer’s alleged sexual encounters with four women, including three that were underage at the time. The charges came just a week after lawyer Michael Avenatti acquired a previously unseen sex tape that allegedly depicts Kelly and an underage girl.
“I haven’t watched Avenatti’s tape. I wonder why [Cook County district attorney] Kim Foxx isn’t investigating him for watching child porn, for disseminating child porn, which I’m sure he’s done many times,” Greenberg said, adding that Avenatti is a “coward” who “blocked me from his Twitter account.”
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