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American rapper, Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly has been found guilty on three counts of child pornography. Each charge carries a minimum of 10 years in prison, per the outlet.

This verdict was reached by a sitting court in Chicago on Wednesday, September 14.

The jury also found Kelly guilty on three of five counts of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.

Kelly was accused of 13 counts of producing and receiving child pornography, enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity, and conspiracy to obstruct justice ahead of the trial. The jury took about 10 hours before making their verdict.

Speaking outside the court after the verdict was passed, R. Kelly’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean said the cases presented were handled individually.

She said:

“There was a mixed verdict, but we won more counts than we lost. If this jury concluded that he was guilty on the first three counts, would they care enough to consider the evidence on the rest? And they demonstrated that they did. They did their job. They looked at each count separately.”