*R. Kelly was convicted on three child pornography charges at his federal trial in Chicago on Wednesday.

Prosecutors accused the Grammy-winning superstar of recording his sexual encounters with underage girls. The conviction reportedly comes with a mandatory 10-year prison sentence.

According to WGN News, the jury began deliberating on Tuesday after a month-long trial. Kelly was acquitted on seven other counts in the indictment: “one child pornography count, one count of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, as well as four conspiracy counts,” the outlet writes.

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Kelly was convicted on similar sex abuse charges in Brooklyn federal court last year and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He has two additional criminal cases pending, one in Cook County and another in Minnesota.

We reported previously that Kelly’s Chicago case centered on the alleged victim in his 2008 state child pornography trial. Kelly is accused of threatening and paying off a girl who he allegedly filmed himself having sex with when he was around 30 and she was no older than 14.

Source: R. Kelly: Singer Convicted of Child Pornography in Chicago Trial

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