R. Kelly was sentenced to twenty years in jail on youngster pornography and youngster enticement fees on Thursday.
The disgraced singer was discovered responsible on three counts of manufacturing youngster pornography and three of enticement of minors for intercourse in his hometown of Chicago in September 2022.
On Thursday, a federal decide dominated that the 56-year-old singer, actual identify Robert Sylvester Kelly, will serve the sentence concurrently he completes a 30-year jail time period in New York on racketeering and intercourse trafficking fees.
This brings Kelly’s whole time behind bars to 31 years, that means he can be eligible for launch when he is in his eighties.
Beforehand, prosecutors had referred to as for the singer to be given a 25-year sentence served consecutively, whereas his defence argued for a sentence of 10 years, served concurrently.
Kelly, as soon as one of many greatest R&B stars on this planet, had confronted a complete of 13 counts throughout his Chicago trial, however was acquitted on the opposite fees – together with conspiracy to hinder his 2008 trial throughout which he was discovered not responsible of kid pornography and youngster enticement fees.
He was sentenced to jail in New York in June 2022 after being convicted on one rely of racketeering and eight counts of violating an anti-sex trafficking regulation.
