In this courtroom sketch, the front of the courtroom is blocked off as a sexually graphic video clip is played for the jury during R. Kelly's trial in federal court Aug. 19, 2022, in Chicago.
Near the end of her direct examination, Van Allen broke down in tears as she described how McDavid threatened her at a lawyer’s office in Chicago after she had failed a polygraph test about the tape.“He said that I failed , and that they should have murked me from the beginning” — that is, they should have killed her.
At the defense table, McDavid pursed his lips and turned to Kelly, who was seated behind him, and shook his head slowly. At the beginning of her testimony. Van Allen was calm but somewhat nervous, swiveling in her chair and pausing often to sip from a water bottle. When she began to discuss the sexual contact with young Jane, her face grew very somber.
That same year, Jane told Van Allen that she would be getting a PT Cruiser for her 16th birthday. Van Allen was upset since she had been under the impression Jane was 16 two years earlier, during their first sexual encounter, she testified.After that, Van Allen said, “I didn’t want to do any more threesomes. I didn’t want to do the first ones, but I definitely didn’t want any more encounters. Because she was 14! She had to be 14.
After that, she and Murrell brought the tape back and took a series of polygraph tests, she said. They got some of the money from McDavid in return, and Van Allen was told they would get the rest after Kelly’s trial, she said.
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