Well, well, well. Two more witnesses identified the girl on the sex tape whom prosecutors believe was underage when filmed having sex with the R&B star. R. Kelly and the young woman continue to deny the allegations. Kelly’s lawyers even revealed that R.Kelly has a mole on his back and the man on the tape didn’t. (LOL).  Raven Gengler, 22, testified Tuesday that she was a childhood friend of the girl and recognized her as the teen in the sex tape, which prosecutors claim was made between Jan. 1, 1998, and Nov. 1, 2000. They say the young female in the tape was born in September 1984. An additional witness, Tjada Burnett, a family friend said she recognized the alleged victim by “cheeks, her nose, her facial structure.”  Under cross examination, the defense attorney argued that the alleged victim had braces in the late 1990s, but the young woman in the video didn’t appear to be wearing braces. Gengler, the childhood friend, said  “I mean it was absolutely [the victim]. … It was just her facial features, the expression on her face, you could vaguely kind of hear her voice even”, after the defense team accused her of lying as to when she actually viewed the sex video tape.  
       During cross, Adam, Kelly’s defense attorney went hard on Gengler: “So when you went down to see [the investigators] you told [them] you recognized the voice, didn’t you?”
       “At that time, I don’t believe I spoke about her voice,” Gengler said. “I can’t recall, it was a long time ago.”
       Adam read from her grand jury testimony, given March 31, 2002, in response to the question of whether she had ever seen the tape: “No, thank God.”
       “By March 24 of 2002, you have not yet reviewed the video, yet you told [a detective] you recognized a voice you hadn’t heard?” Adam asked. “I ask you, Miss Gengler, if it is that you’ve been pressured into saying these things.”
       “I don’t understand why I would have said that it was his voice if I had not viewed the video,” she replied.
       “The answer is because you were getting pressured by the detectives and the state’s attorney’s office,” he shot back. “I would never lie,” she said.
      On redirect, prosecutor Shauna Boliker sought to clarify that the only time Gengler recognized the voices was when she most recently viewed the tape in the state’s attorney’s office.
      Testimony was also heard Tuesday from Alexandra Guerrero, an investigator with the Cook County state’s attorney’s office called by the state to describe Kelly’s former North Side home, where prosecutors allege the sex tape was made.
       Guerrero described—and prosecutors provided photos of—a mural plastered on the wall of a half basketball court in the lower level of the home. In the mural – based on the movie “Space Jam” that featured his hit single “I Believe I Can Fly” – Kelly is playing and committing a flagrant foul against the cartoon character Tazmanian Devil, one of the stars of “Space Jam.”
       The defense has suggested this testimony could be key to establishing whether Kelly owned the home at the time he’s alleged to have made the videotape.

source: AP, Eurweb