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 Testifying for the prosecution,
the woman known as Jane Doe No. 5 in Kelly's
indictment said the singer regularly checked her
cellphone to make sure she did not gossip to
friends about their relationship, which began in
2015 when she was 17.
She also said Kelly "chastised" her for
disobedience, including by spanking her hard
enough to leave bruises and tear her skin.
"I would get chastised nearly every two or three
days," the woman said in Brooklyn federal court.
Now 23, Doe said Kelly also ordered her in 2017
to have an abortion she did not want after he
had impregnated her.
Doe's testimony for the prosecution comes on the
fourth day of Kelly's trial.
The 54-year-old singer of "I Believe I Can Fly"
and "Bump N' Grind" has pleaded not guilty to a
nine-count racketeering indictment describing
his alleged abuse of six women and girls,
including the late singer Aaliyah.
Kelly's trial is expected to last several weeks,
and he could face life in prison if convicted.
The singer also faces sex-related criminal
charges in Illinois and Minnesota. Many
accusations of sex-related misconduct were
discussed in the 2019 Lifetime documentary
"Surviving R. Kelly."
Doe testified that she first encountered Kelly
at an Orlando festival, where he paid "a lot of
attention" to her during his performance and had
a member of his entourage slip her his phone
number.
She said she was at the time a high school
junior, hoping to have her own singing career.
Doe said she agreed to meet Kelly at a hotel for
an audition, but that Kelly would not let her
sing until he first performed oral sex on her.
After that encounter, Doe said she began
regularly meeting Kelly and having sex with him
in different cities, with an assistant for Kelly
arranging flights. She said Kelly invariably
recorded their sexual encounters on an iPad.
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 Like other prosecution
witnesses, Doe told jurors that Kelly had strict
rules, which included getting his permission to
do nearly anything - even leaving a room to get
food or go to the bathroom. She
also said Kelly demanded that she call him
"Daddy" and kiss him as soon as he walked into a
room.
At one point, Doe testified, she was diagnosed
with herpes after experiencing pain during sex
that "got worse to the point where I couldn't
walk."
"I was devastated," Doe said, breaking down in
tears. Doe said she had never been with anyone
else and believed Kelly had "purposely given me
something that he knew he had."
Kelly even joked about herpes, saying "everyone
has it," Doe testified.
Doe said Kelly first slapped her at the end of
the summer of 2015, after she told him she was
17 and had to return to school.
She said Kelly proposed that she attend her
senior year remotely, while living with him in
Chicago, and that her parents agreed to put her
under the care of a woman Kelly knew.
Doe said Kelly became more violent as time wore
on, once beating her with a sneaker after he
caught her texting a friend about their
relationship.
She also said she witnessed Kelly hitting other
girlfriends, and that Kelly once forced her to
film a video smearing feces on her own face.
(Reporting by Brendan Pierson in New York;
Editing by Noeleen Walder, Jonathan Oatis and
Chris Reese)
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