{"id":18569,"date":"2021-08-18T17:55:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18569"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:55:19","slug":"predator-r-kelly-groomed-girls-for-decades-singers-sex-crimes-trial-hearsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18569","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Predator\u2019 R. Kelly groomed girls for decades, singer\u2019s sex crimes trial hearsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostR. Kelly is a \u201cpredator\u201d who demanded absolute fealty from the many women and underage girls he recruited for sex in a two-decade racketeering scheme, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday as the R&amp;B superstar\u2019s sex abuse trial began.Assistant US Attorney Maria Melendez told a jury of seven men and five women in Brooklyn federal court that Kelly used \u201clies, manipulation, threats and physical abuse\u201d to dominate his victims, and often filmed their sexual encounters.Melendez said Kelly, 54, would\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3145548\/predator-r-kelly-groomed-girls-decades-singers-sex?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostR. Kelly is a \u201cpredator\u201d who demanded absolute fealty from the many women and underage girls he recruited for sex in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}