Prosecutors rest case at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago; 4th woman testifies she was victim
CHICAGO — Nia was just 15 when she left her Atlanta home in 1996 to fly to Minneapolis at the request of R. Kelly, the R&B superstar twice her age.
She had no identification and didn’t tell her mother where she was going, Nia, now 42, told a federal jury on Tuesday. After a white limousine picked her up to take her to the airport, she asked the driver to stop at a gas station, and she bought a single rose to give to Kelly.
“I wanted him to know how I felt about him,” she said. “And I felt that it would be a gesture that would be sweet.”
Instead, Kelly sexually abused her in a hotel room and left in a hurry before she could even give him the rose, she testified. After another inappropriate encounter at Kelly’s Chicago recording studio, he stopped returning her phone calls. When she saw him again
