Dahleen Glanton: An alleged sexual assault victim may have lied to help acquit R. Kelly in 2008. Her cooperation this time is an act of bravery

CHICAGO - It was clear from his trial in 2008 that R. Kelly is a bad guy. It was hard to grasp how a jury could have acquitted him of child pornography after watching the videotape that prosecutors said showed him having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

But what choice did they have when the girl in the video, by then a 23-year-old woman, insisted it was not her?

Eleven years ago, the young woman in question, Kelly's goddaughter, wanted nothing to do with prosecutors who were attempting