As the trial of R. Kelly progresses, more startling details of his victims’ life come to light. According to an assistant who testified in court on Tuesday, the disgraced entertainer made women who had twerked for cake at a birthday party fight each other as a form of punishment.

Suzette Mayweather worked as Kelly’s assistant for 16 months, reported the Daily Beast. According to her testimony, Kelly had such control over the women who were called his girlfriends that they were not to move without his permission.

“They did not move unless they had his permission,” said Mayweather. “If there was a male present, I interacted with the male.”

Kelly’s abusive police revealed itself during an all-female birthday party at his studio where the women twerked for cake.

As punishment, Kelly made the victims “get on each other,” a term for fighting, according to Mayweather.

In the aftermath, Kelly allegedly told Mayweather that he was upset even though no males were present because one of the women brought her female cousin, who seemed to have masculine traits.

Mayweather did not witness the women fighting, but she testified to hearing laughter, screams and chairs thumping around.

Victims of abuse of any kind can often be made to behave nonsensically at the whims of their abuser. Abusers have nonsensical reasoning for the demands they make of their victims.

This trial is unlike the first trial Kelly had. A new cadre of witnesses has revealed incidents that most of the public did not know.

Along with fights as punishment, a male witness testified in court that he was also a victim of Kelly’s sexual misconduct.

Last week, victims testified to Kelly having made them write fake blackmail letters he could use if he were ever brought to justice for his sex crimes.

This is just one of several trials for Kelly on the horizon.