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On February 3, 2002, a video allegedly showing Kelly engaging in sex with, and urinating on, an alleged 14 year old girl surfaced. The girl defended R. Kelly, later saying that she consented. The story, that was released by an unknown source, was sent to the Chicago Sun-Times, the newspaper that broke the story. Kelly denied that he was the man in the video.[85] Bootleg copies of that tape became widely available on the black market and over file sharing networks.[86] In June 2002, authorities searched Kelly's house in Davenport, Florida. Officers allegedly found pictures of an alleged underage girl on a digital camera – wrapped in a towel in a duffel bag.,[87] Kelly was arrested in January 2003 on those charges. In March 2004 these charges were dropped due to a lack of probable cause for the search warrants.[88] In June 2002, Kelly was indicted in Chicago on 21 counts of having sex with a minor, which were later reduced to soliciting a minor for child pornography, seven counts of videotaping the acts, and seven counts of producing child pornography

Most probably why.