R. Kelly

A federal judge has handed singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison sentence for his Chicago convictions of child pornography and the enticement of minors for sex.

Kelly’s abuse of children was all the worse, she said, because he “memorialized” his abuse by filming victims, including Jane. “The (government’s) whole theory of grooming, was sort of the opposite of fear of bodily harm,” the judge told the court. “It was the fear of lost love, lost affections (from Kelly)'. To give him a consecutive 25-year sentence on top of that “is overkill, it is symbolic,” she said. Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. Prosecutors did not get a conviction on the marquee charge: that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. She also remarked that Kelly will be lucky to survive his 30-year New York sentence alone. “It's the right outcome,” she told reporters following the hearing. “I will never get back what I lost to Robert Kelly. “When your virginity is taken by a pedophile at 14 … Kelly remained still and impassive, his eyes downcast, when the judge issued his sentence in a Chicago federal courtroom. That would have been tantamount to sending him to prison for life.

Disgraced R&B singer will only have to serve an extra year after completing current New York sentence.

Kelly’s abuse of children was all the worse, she said, because he “memorialized” it by filming his victims, including Jane. It just doesn’t seem to me that it rises to the fear of bodily harm.” Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. “I will never get back what I lost to Robert Kelly … “It was the fear of lost love, lost affections [from Kelly] … Prosecutors acknowledged that a lengthy term served only after the New York sentence could have erased any chance of Kelly getting out of prison alive.

“The nature of this offence is horrific,” Judge Leinenweber said in explaining the 20-year sentence. He noted that Kelly's sexual abuse victims would suffer ...

Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. “It was the fear of lost love, lost affections (from Kelly)’. “He is 56 years of age.” Another accuser, who used the pseudonym “Nia”, addressed Kelly directly in court. “It’s the right outcome,” Ms Bonjean said. “The judge was reasonable.

The R&B singer was given one additional year of prison time for child pornography and the enticement of minors for sex.

“It was the fear of lost love, lost affections,” he continued. During that trial, Kelly’s lawyers argued that he should receive no more than a 10-year sentence due to circumstances that included “severe, prolonged childhood sexual abuse, poverty and violence”. With Thursday’s sentence, Kelly will serve a maximum of 31 years behind bars and become eligible for release around the age of 80.

The singer will serve most of the sentence in federal prison at the same time as a 30-year term for racketeering and sex trafficking.

Kelly to pay one of the sexual abuse victims $42,000 in restitution for therapy bills, denying it to the goddaughter and the third woman whose account led to a conviction. The third woman, referred to as Nia during the trial, addressed Mr. Kelly had suffered his own history of sexual abuse as a child and that he had intellectual disabilities that “shed some light on why he engaged in inappropriate relationships.” She had denied to a grand jury that she was the person in an infamous tape that prosecutors said showed Mr. Kelly sexually abused her repeatedly when she was a teenager, sometimes at the same time as the goddaughter. Kelly be put in jail for “as long as the law allows.” The additional sentence reduces the chance that Mr. Bonjean, who said she was appealing the convictions in both Brooklyn and Chicago, had lobbied for the minimum 10-year prison sentence, arguing that Mr. He was acquitted of a charge that he had attempted to obstruct an earlier investigation into his abuse of the goddaughter, and two other counts of enticing minors to have sex. Kelly would be likely to commit the same kind of crimes in his 80s. Kelly was once widely viewed with pride as a product of the city’s South Side. Kelly received after a jury in Brooklyn

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a call from prosecutors to keep R. Kelly behind bars until he is 100.

“He was expecting this,” she told the judge. Kelly’s abuse of children was especially appalling, she said, because he “memorialized” his abuse by filming victims, including Jane. “The (government’s) whole theory of grooming, was sort of the opposite of fear of bodily harm,” the judge told the court. “It was the fear of lost love, lost affections (from Kelly)’. Another accuser, who used the pseudonym “Nia,” addressed Kelly directly in court. Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. “It’s the right outcome,” Bonjean said of the sentence after the hearing ended. Prosecutors did not get a conviction on the marquee charge: that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008. But he added, “Twenty years is a significant sentence, and we are happy that that was imposed in this case.” “He is 56 years of age.” Handed down in a courtroom in Kelly’s hometown of Chicago, the sentence means Kelly could make it out of prison alive, when he is about 80. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer he would serve all but one of his 20 years on child sex convictions simultaneously with a previous sentence.

Disgraced musician R. Kelly has been convicted to 20 years in prison for the sexual abuse of a minor in another trial. He will serve his new sentence ...

Kelly's defence attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, had asked the judge to allow Kelly to serve his latest sentence concurrently with the previous sentence, meaning he would have served them at the same time. "Because Kelly is Kelly, more people have watched child pornography," they said in a memo. They said Kelly's crimes were made worse by the fact that he filmed them, with some of the footage later becoming available online.

Disgraced musician R. Kelly has been convicted to 20 years in prison for the sexual abuse of a minor in another trial. He will serve his new sentence ...

Kelly's defence attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, had asked the judge to allow Kelly to serve his latest sentence concurrently with the previous sentence, meaning he would have served them at the same time. "Because Kelly is Kelly, more people have watched child pornography," they said in a memo. They said Kelly's crimes were made worse by the fact that he filmed them, with some of the footage later becoming available online.

Since the 1990s, Kelly has been accused and convicted of several crimes, including prostitution, child abuse, sex trafficking and child pornography.

Despite all the accusations and court cases, music celebrities and producers continued to work with Kelly and promoted his music over the years. *Sex trafficking: In 2021, the singer was convicted of sex trafficking. *Child pornography: In 2002, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Kelly allegedly had sex with a minor and videotaped it. The case was settled out of court. A year later, the singer formed another group, Public Announcement, and with them released “Born Into The ’90s”, which went on to become a platinum album. The singer is already serving a 30 year prison term for his 2021 conviction on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.

Recording artist Robert Sylvester Kelly, also known as R. Kelly, was sentenced by United States District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber to 20 years in federal ...

HSI’s international presence represents DHS’s largest investigative law enforcement presence abroad and one of the largest international footprints in U.S. The trial revealed that Kelly enticed multiple underage girls to engage in sexual activity and that he continued to abuse his victims for years, at times recording some of the abuse. HSI’s workforce of more than 8,700 employees consists of more than 6,000 special agents assigned to 237 cities throughout the United States, and 93 overseas locations in 56 countries. HSI is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. 14, after a four-week trial, a federal jury in Chicago convicted Kelly of three counts of producing child pornography and three counts of enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. and Chicago’s IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent in Charge Justin Campbell announced the sentence.