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CHICAGO — Jurors began deliberating in R&B star R. Kelly’s child-pornography trial Thursday with the graphic sex tape at the center of the case fresh in their minds.
Prosecutors replayed the video during closing arguments, while defense attorneys reiterated that it’s neither Kelly nor the person the state says was the underage girl — now a 23-year-old woman — on the tape.
While the tape rolled for a second time — the first was during opening statements last month — prosecutors told jurors that the man is Kelly and that he controlled the encounter with the underage female, who was as young as 13 at the time.
Kelly, 41, has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography.
