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R. Kelly surrenders to authorities after being charged with sexually abusing 4

CHICAGO - In a bombshell development, R&B superstar R. Kelly was indicted Friday on charges he sexually abused four victims, three of them underage, over a span of a dozen years.

Kelly was charged with allegedly abusing the one adult victim in February 2003 - at the same time he was already fighting child pornography charges of filming himself having sex with an underage girl.

The four separate indictments charged Kelly with a combined 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for alleged misconduct occurring between 1998 and 2010.

Three of the indictments refer to girls

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