The Latest: Avenatti: Notion (R. Kelly) victims are lying 'outrageous'

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Avenatti: Notion victims are lying ‘outrageous’

2 hours ago

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the sexual abuse case against R&B singer R. Kelly (all times local):

3 p.m.

Lawyer Michael Avenatti says it’s “outrageous” that R. Kelly’s attorney questions whether the singer’s accusers are telling the truth about being sexually abused by the R&B singer.

Avenatti, who says he represents two Kelly victims and gave prosecutors new video evidence of Kelly having sex with an underage girl, said Saturday that, “We’re going to do everything in our power ... to make sure 2019 is not a repeat of 2008.”

He was referring to Kelly’s 2008 child pornography trial, in which the singer was acquitted.

Kelly’s lawyer, Steve Greenberg, said Saturday after a judge set Kelly’s bond at $1 million that Kelly “is a rock star. He doesn’t have to have nonconsensual sex.”

Referring to the #MeToo movement, Greenberg said, “Unfortunately, there’s this whole hashtag movement. Just because someone says something now ... it doesn’t make them credible.”

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Read more: https://apnews.com/dd33ec9b8eee421cb11760ce90fb61ad

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Sure dude, maybe he likes nonconsensual sex you fn idiot.

[jalan48]

2. He's right in there with the Epstein crowd.

[Tucker08087]

3. Most rapists don't HAVE to have nonconsensual sex.

It isn’t about the sex. We’ve known this for what? 30 years at least? It’s the power. It’s the violence. It’s the control. And this guy, with his freaky sex cult, is all about power and control. I hope they destroy him, because prison takes away all control. He deserves worse.