WHY IS HE ON THE STREET?:

New porn charges hit R. Kelly (ABDON M. PALLASCH, January 23, 2003, Chicago Sun-Times)

R&B superstar R. Kelly's court-approved visit to Miami to tape a music video for his racy new song "Ignition" was interrupted Wednesday by yet another trip to the lockup for the three-time Grammy winner.

This time, he was charged with 12 counts of possession of child pornography. He was released on $12,000 bail.

The charges come on top of the 21-count indictment for child porn that Kelly faces in Chicago. Those charges stem from a video that appears to show Kelly engaging in various sex acts with a 14-year-old girl. [...]

A Cook County judge told Kelly in December he could go to Florida to work on the music video as long as he checked in by phone every day and avoided contact with minors. [...]

Kelly's spiritual adviser, the Rev. James Meeks, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson declined comment on Kelly's latest arrest.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a legal system that let's this scum out in society. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 23, 2003 12:59 PM