In 2001, R. Kelly began paying thousands of dollars to recover videotapes of himself having sex with teenage girls, federal prosecutors have stated. Nearly two decades later, the 52-year-old is facing two separate federal grand jury indictments in Illinois and New York. CNN reports that the indictments released Friday allege he recruited women for sex, persuaded people to conceal that he had sexual contact with teenage girls, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying back the missing videotapes. When they recovered the videos, the indictment states that Kelly and his associates directed people to take polygraph tests to ensure they had returned all copies. In the Illinois indictment, Kelly is charged with one count of conspiracy to receive child pornography, two counts of receiving child pornography, four counts of producing child pornography, five counts of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. A separate five-count indictment in New York accuses him of sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, forced labour and violations of the Mann Act involving the coercion and transportation of women and girls in interstate commerce to engage in illegal sexual activity from 1999 to the present.