{"id":1930,"date":"2019-04-01T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:34:39","slug":"r-kelly-faces-sexual-assault-allegations-and-potential-defenses-to-the-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/r-kelly-faces-sexual-assault-allegations-and-potential-defenses-to-the-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly faces sexual assault allegations and potential defenses to the charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R. Kelly faces numerous counts of aggravated sexual abuse; it is alleged that the girls were underage at the time of the incident.\u00a0 In Massachusetts, when someone has sex with an underage person, the crime is referred to as statutory rape.\u00a0 With a crime like statutory rape, consent is not a defense to the crime.\u00a0 The only potential defense is to deny that any sexual contact ever occurred.\u00a0 In Massachusetts, the age for consent is 16 years old.<\/p>\n<p>As matters stand now, R. Kelly made his first court appearance on Saturday, February 23, 2019, and a judge set his bond at $1 million dollars.\u00a0 He was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and turned himself in to police the Friday prior to his bond hearing.\u00a0 The charges were based on a grand jury indictment that listed four victims.\u00a0 Three of the victims were younger than 17 at the time of the alleged abuse, which occurred between May 1998 and January 2010. These charges come amidst a Lifetime documentary which detailed numerous Tsurvivors account of the alleged sexual abuse at the hands of R. Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s conditions of release were similar to what a defendant charged with a similar crime would face in Massachusetts.\u00a0 He was ordered to have no-contact provision with witnesses, alleged victims, or anyone age 18 or younger.\u00a0 He also had to turn in his passport.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/r-kelly-faces-sexual-assault-allegations-and-potential-defenses-to-the-charges\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading R. Kelly faces sexual assault allegations and potential defenses to the charges\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. Kelly faces numerous counts of aggravated sexual abuse; it is alleged that the girls were underage at the time of the incident.\u00a0 In Massachusetts, when someone has sex with an underage person, the crime is referred to as statutory rape.\u00a0 With a crime like statutory rape, consent is not a defense to the crime.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-crimes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R. Kelly faces sexual assault allegations and potential defenses to the charges &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; April 1, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"R. 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