{"id":480622,"date":"2019-01-08T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=776570"},"modified":"2019-01-08T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T01:55:12","slug":"prosecutors-investigating-r-kelly-sexual-abuse-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/prosecutors-investigating-r-kelly-sexual-abuse-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Investigating R. Kelly Sexual Abuse Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Authorities in Chicago and Atlanta are investigating allegations of sexual and physical abuse against R. Kelly<\/a> in the wake of the Lifetime docuseries<\/a>, Surviving R. Kelly<\/a><\/em>, The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors in both cities are looking to speak with potential victims and witnesses. In Atlanta, the district attorney\u2019s office reportedly began conducting interviews last week, while the Cook County, Illinois state attorney, Kimberly M. Foxx, held a press conference in Chicago Tuesday and asked people to come forward if they had any information.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease come forward,\u201d said Foxx. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing that can be done to investigate these allegations without the cooperation of both victims and witnesses. We cannot seek justice without you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foxx called Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> \u201cdeeply, deeply disturbing,\u201d adding that after the series aired her office received calls from two families in Chicago who were concerned about recent contacts between R. Kelly and someone they knew. However, Foxx did not confirm that there was an active criminal investigation at the moment.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a lawyer representing the parents of one of R. Kelly\u2019s alleged victims, Joycelyn Savage, said that senior investigators in Atlanta had contacted them on Monday. The family, along with other witnesses, were reportedly made available for questioning. The Fulton County District Attorney\u2019s Office did not provide any further comment.<\/p>\n

The budding investigations mark the most significant developments in the effort to hold R. Kelly accountable. While journalists have been tracking<\/a> the accusations<\/a>\u00a0against him for years, Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> collected the stories of many of his alleged victims, as well as those from the singer\u2019s inner-circle. R. Kelly has repeatedly denied all accusations.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities in Chicago and Atlanta are investigating allegations of sexual and physical abuse against R. Kelly in the wake of the Lifetime docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly, The New York Times reports. Prosecutors in both cities are looking to speak with potential victims and witnesses. In Atlanta, the district attorney\u2019s office reportedly began conducting interviews last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 09:34:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}