R Kelly will serve an additional 12 months in jail on prices referring to possessing baby pornography and baby enticement.
The disgraced singer was discovered responsible of six of 13 counts of proudly owning and producing baby pornography and engaging a minor again in September. On Thursday (February 23), he was sentenced to twenty years in jail however he’ll serve nearly all of his sentence concurrently alongside the jail time period he acquired final 12 months for racketeering and trafficking.
The extra sentence implies that in complete, Kelly will now serve 31 years in jail and he won’t be eligible for launch till he’s 80 years previous.
The central query referring to the sentencing in Kelly’s hometown of Chicago was whether or not Kelly could be ordered to serve the extra sentence concurrently alongside or after the completion of his earlier 30-year sentence. If the choose had determined upon the latter choice, this might have been equal to a life sentence.
Prosecutors had acknowledged that lengthening his sentence would nearly assure Kelly would spend the remainder of his life behind bars however argued that his crimes in opposition to kids and lack of contrition justified it.
R Kelly appealed to have a Chicago courtroom overturn its responsible verdict on the trial, however misplaced his plea, with choose Henry D. Leinenweber ruling that federal prosecutors provided “sufficient proof to maintain a responsible verdict on all six counts Kelly was convicted of”.
Nevertheless, final month, the state of Illinois dropped its native prices in Cook dinner County in opposition to R. Kelly, as a consequence of “in depth sentences” he’s already serving at a federal degree within the state of New York.
At the start of the 12 months, a remaining instalment of the Surviving R. Kelly docuseries aired on Lifetime, masking Kelly’s 2022 federal trial. The docuseries additionally examined the function performed by these round Kelly who enabled him, both by turning a blind eye to his abuse over three many years or serving to him see his victims, resembling by reserving flights for underage ladies to journey throughout state traces.
It additionally examined Kelly’s marriage with the late singer Aaliyah, revealing that he silenced her and her household with a non-disclosure settlement after the annulment of their marriage, which happened when Aaliyah was 15 together with her age falsified as 18 on the wedding certificates.
