Singer R. Kelly took one step closer to the penitentiary today when a woman took the stand and positively identified him as the man in a video engaging in sex acts with a minor.
Simha Jamison, 24, also testified that the young girl on the tape taking money from R. Kelly is her best friend from childhood who was 13 or 14 at the time the tape was made.
Jamison recalls viewing the videotape at the center of the prosecutor’s case twice before confirming that the girl was her friend.
“I kind of know her like the back of my hand,” Jamison said. She pointed out the girl’s unusual hairstyle as a “mullet” haircut.
“We got our hair cut the same way together. It’s a mullet. Short at the top, long at the back,” Jamison said. The girls were both 14 at the time and were freshmen in high school.
Earlier, Jamison’s legal guardian, Peter Thomas, testified he too viewed the tape and positively identified the young girl as Jamison’s childhood friend.
“She looks pretty young in that video,” Thomas said.
“As she got older, she started to look more like a woman, and there, she looks like kind of a kid,” Thomas said. (Source)
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