to jail more than two years ago. tonight, after a six-week trial and 50 witnesses, a swift verdict from the jury of seven men and five women. abc's stephanie ramos leading us off right here in new york. >> reporter: tonight, after decades of suspicion and allegations of abuse, it would take just nine hours of deliberation for a brooklyn jury to find r&b singer r. kelly guilty on all counts. the singer facing decades in prison for eight counts of sex trafficking and one count of racketeering, alleging kelly was the leader of an enterprise made up of individuals who would "recruit women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity with kelly." arranging for them "to travel to concerts throughout the united states." >> today's guilty verdict forever brands r.kelly as a predator, who used his fame and fortune to prey on the young, the vulnerable and the voiceless for his own sexual gratification. to the victims in this case,