R&B singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly, who is serving a 30-year sentence for sex offenses, has been found guilty of child pornography charges.
According to local media, R.Kelly was, on Wednesday, convicted of three counts of producing child pornography and three counts of enticement of a minor.
He was acquitted by a federal jury of seven other counts including charges that he obstructed justice in a previous trial, the newspaper said.
Kelly’s conviction in New York was widely seen as a milestone for the #MeToo movement.
It was also the first time Kelly faced criminal consequences for the abuse he was rumored for decades to have inflicted on women and children.
Kelly also faces prosecution in two other state jurisdictions.
