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R. Kelly s crisis manager said Monday that he wouldnt feel comfortable leaving his own daughter with the disgraced R&B singer and accused serial sexual abuser, yet defended him anyway against a string of new federal sex crime charges .

When CBS This Morning host Gayle King asked if he would allow his daughter to be alone with Kelly, Darrell Johnson said: Absolutely not. Yet, he insisted it was not a contradiction to publicly defend his client against numerous charges of sexually abusing girls and young women.

I wouldnt leave my daughter with anyone thats accused of being a pedophile, he said, repeating it twice.

You have a 20-something-year-old daughter. Would you allow her to be alone with R. Kelly?

I wouldnt leave my daughter with anybody thats accused of pedophilia. Period. -- R. Kelly's crisis manager Darrell Johnson pic.twitter.com/AZWjCqAX7J

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You have a 20-something-year-old daughter. Would you allow her to be alone with R. Kelly?

I wouldnt leave my daughter with anybody thats accused of pedophilia. Period. -- R. Kelly's crisis manager Darrell Johnson pic.twitter.com/AZWjCqAX7J
CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) July 22, 2019

By Monday night, Johnson had resigned for personal reasons, after attempting to walk back his comments about Kelly.

The accused serial sexual abuser was arrested earlier this month on 18 new federal counts , including child pornography, kidnapping and transporting minors for sex, and obstruction of justice, in addition to prior state charges. Kelly and his lawyer have continued to deny all sexual misconduct allegations.

I would never call anybody a liar, Johnson said when King asked him about the numerous women accusing Kelly , adding that he has not personally witnessed anything that would cause me to be suspicious.

Ive seen Mr. Kelly being a normal person, he said.

Johnson cited Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary , the two women living with Kelly who have defended him. But both womens parents believe Kelly has brainwashed them, part of a pattern of allegedly holding women and girls against their will.

King who famously interviewed Kelly , Savage and Clary earlier this year pointed out to Johnson that of course it was possible for abusers to be a normal person.

We are not going to see that type of behavior, King said. The question is all of these women, through decades now, have been telling the same story. Of course you and I arent going to see that, or someone, if we walked into his house.

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