Jane, the pseudonym for the victim, now 37, said they had sex ‘hundreds’ of times before she turned 18

A woman central to R Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades testified on Thursday that the R&B singer had sex with her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18, starting when she was 15.

Jane – the pseudonym for the now 37-year-old at Kelly’s trial on child sexual abuse images and obstruction of justice charges – told jurors that in the late 1990s when she was 13, she asked the Grammy-winning singer to be her godfather because she saw him as an inspiration and mentor.

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