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A New York jury has found the singer R. Kelly guilty of being the ringleader of a criminal enterprise that recruited women and children for sex.

After a six-week trial, the R&B star was found guilty on nine counts of running a Chicago-based sex trafficking scheme which targeted underage girls, boys and women. This was Kelly's second criminal trial: in 2008 he was acquitted of a child pornography charge. But fresh charges were brought following the airing of the documentary 鈥淪urviving R. Kelly鈥�.

Geoff Edgers is the Washington Post national arts reporter and has been following the story closely.

"People have known about R.Kelly for year and years but this is the first time legal authorities were able to do anything about it... There were so many different stories and so many different witnesses."

(Photo: R. Kelly outside court in 2019. Credit: Getty Images)