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Jerhonda Pace is expected to take the stand in Brooklyn’s Federal District Court again Thursday to tell the court about the six months of alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of Kelly. Jurors on R. Kelly’s trial will hear more testimony from the woman who said the R&B star lured her to his mansion when she was a 16-year-old virgin, made her call him ‘daddy’ and choked her until she passed out, on day two of his federal sex abuse trial in New York.
Pace, named in court as ‘Jane Doe No. 4,’ was the first witness called by the prosecution Wednesday on the first day of Kelly’s long-awaited trial.
Jerhonda Pace Age
Jerhonda Pace is 28 years old.
Jerhonda Pace Testify at R.Kelly Trial
She is one of six women in the nine-count federal indictment which could see the biggest star in R&B spend the rest of his life behind bars. Kelly is accused of being the ringleader of a criminal enterprise where he and his entourage procured women, underage boys and girls for his se**xual pleasure for more than two decades and subjected them to abuse and blackmail.
Jurors on R. Kelly’s trial will hear more testimony from the woman who said the R&B star lured her to his mansion when she was a 16-year-old virgin, made her call him ‘daddy’ and choked her until she passed out on day two of his federal se**x abuse trial in New York. R. Kelly left and Jerhonda Pace right
One of the six women is late singer Aaliyah who Kelly married when she was just 15 and he was 27. Kelly is accused of bribing an Illinois official in 1994 to obtain fake ID for Aaliyah so they could wed in a scheme to silence the teen who was reportedly pregnant with his child. Meanwhile, two of the other women have accused Kelly of giving them herpes by having unprotected se**x with them and not disclosing he had the virus.
He faces up to life in prison if convicted on all counts and is also facing separate state and federal charges in Illinois and Minnesota. Pace testified Wednesday that she first met Kelly aged just 14 when she attended every day of his 2008 child pornography trial – in which he was found not guilty due to lack of sufficient evidence. She said she then met up with Kelly at a party two years later when she was 16 and they began a se**xual relationship.
When she told him her age and that she was a virgin, Kelly allegedly told her he was happy she was a virgin and urged her to pretend to be 21. Over the next six months, Kelly forced her to follow his ‘rules’, took away her cell phone, denied her food or using the bathroom without his permission, and made her call him ‘daddy’, she told the court Wednesday. Pace told jurors she last saw Kelly in 2010 when he spit on her, slapped her and choked her until she passed out. When she came around, he allegedly made her perform oral se**x on him and he ejaculated on her face.
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The court was shown the blue t-shirt that Pace said she used to wipe Kelly’s semen off her face following the encounter. The prosecution said it contained his DNA. Before Pace took the stand, the defense and prosecution gave their opening statements kicking off the trial that is expected to last around a month. Prosecutors described the 54-year-old as a ‘predator’ who used ‘every trick in the predator handbook’ to groom his victims, blackmailed them with se**x tapes and violently beat them if they failed to comply with his demands.
However, Kelly’s attorney instead claimed that Kelly was the victim of ‘fans’ who wanted the ‘notoriety of being with a superstar’ and sought to discredit the accusers, telling jurors they will have to wade through ‘a mess of lies’. The jury – of seven men and five women – are expected to hear testimony from multiple accusers during the trial including four of the five surviving accusers in the indictment – identified as Stephanie, Sonja, Jerhonda, Zel and Faith.
Defense sttorneys Thomas Farinella and Nicole Becker arrive for the second day of R. Kelly’s trial at Brooklyn Federal Court. The prosecution arriving Thursday for day two of the trial where the court will hear again from accuser Jerhonda Pace. Cooperating former associates are also expected to take the witness stand to testify how Kelly’s managers, bodyguards and other employees helped him recruit women and girls – and sometimes boys – for se**xual exploitation.
Kelly was arrested on these federal charges in New York in 2019 and has been held behind bars for almost two years in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn – the same jail housing Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell. The R&B star’s arrest and trial has been years in the making after he has faced accusations of se**x abuse for decades, ever since his relationship with the Aaliyah came under the spotlight in 1994.
Allegations of se**x tapes involving young girls started emerging and he was arrested on child porn charges in 2003. The singer went to trial on these charges in Chicago in 2008 but was acquitted due to a lack of evidence, freeing him to revive his music career. The allegations caught up with him again when several women spoke out about the alleged abuse by the star – and the coverup of his actions and silencing of his accusers by his inner circle – in the Lifetime documentary ‘Surviving R. Kelly.’