R. Kelly

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R. Kelly Sentenced to 20 Years for Child Sex Crimes (The New York Times)

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

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R. Kelly, already serving 30 years for sex trafficking, sentenced to 20 ... (CNN)

Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in a Chicago federal courtroom Thursday following his conviction last year on charges of ...

“I understand how hard it was for these victims to come forward and tell their stories. “To this day, and even following the jury verdict against him, Kelly refuses to accept responsibility for his crimes.” “The overwhelming majority of Kelly’s criminal conduct was committed a quarter century ago.” The New York trial included testimony from witnesses who said they were sexually and physically abused by Kelly. Because I was afraid of what might happen to my parents,” she said. Kelly.” A month later, he was indicted in Cook County, Illinois, on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and two federal indictments followed in July 2019. They had sex “hundreds” of times before she turned 18, she said. He was acquitted on seven other counts, including conspiracy to obstruct justice. Leinenweber said in court Thursday that 19 years of the 20-year prison sentence would be served concurrently, or at the same time as his other sentence. In 2002, Kelly was indicted on child pornography charges for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with an unidentified underage girl, but he was acquitted in 2008. “I have lost my dignity due to Robert Kelly. A motion for a new trial was denied last week.

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R. Kelly Sentenced Again: Here's An Overview Of The Charges And ... (Forbes)

The disgraced singer's sentence by an Illinois court for child pornography charges brings his total prison term to 31 years.

Kelly allegations](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/timeline-r-kelly-allegations-n1280065) (NBC News) Kelly Sentenced To One Additional Year In Prison In Child Pornography Case, Bringing Prison Time To 31 Years](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/23/r-kelly-sentenced-to-one-additional-year-in-prison-in-child-pornography-case-bringing-prison-time-to-31-years/?sh=633143fa6710) (Forbes) [Timeline of the R. [sentencing](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvey-weinsteins-prison-term-double-l-rape-sentence-rcna71702) for a rape conviction in Los Angeles. Scrutiny against Kelly resurfaced in the late 2010s when a [Buzzfeed News ](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult) [report](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult) alleged he ran a “cult” in which he dictated the lives of and emotionally and sexually manipulated six women (Kelly denied the allegations). Kelly was [charged](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r-kelly-charged-multiple-counts-sexual-abuse-minor-n974621) in Illinois on multiple counts of sexual abuse of minors the next month. “Black men, with diabetes, do not live into their 80s in prison,” Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean [told](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/r-kelly-sentenced-federal-child-pornography-trial-1234685009/) the judge, adding there is no reason to believe he would reoffend in his mid-80s if he completes a 30-year prison sentence. This prompted further backlash against Kelly, sparking the #MuteRKelly social media [campaign](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/timeline-r-kelly-allegations-n1280065) and inspiring other women to publicly [make allegations](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40635526) against him. The series inspired wide backlash against Kelly from former collaborators, celebrities and social media users, and he was [dropped](https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports#:~:text=R.-,Kelly%20Has%20Been%20Dropped%20By%20RCA%20Records,%20'Billboard'%20Reports,multiple%20women%20of%20sexual%20abuse.) from his record label later that month. [marriage](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/timeline-r-kelly-allegations-n1280065) to Aaliyah (which was annulled months later because she was underage) and lawsuits brought against him for allegedly having sex with minors. Kelly, a six-part Lifetime docuseries chronicling Kelly’s alleged instances of abuse, [premiered](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/celebrities-react-lifetime-s-surviving-r-kelly-docuseries-n955201) in January 2019 and featured interviews with women who accused him of physical, sexual and mental abuse. To this day, and even following the jury verdict against him, Kelly refuses to accept responsibility for his crimes,” prosecutors Kelly has faced allegations of sexual abuse throughout his career.

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R. Kelly sentenced to one more year in prison for child pornography (NPR)

Editor's note: This report includes allegations of sexual and physical abuse. Disgraced former R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced Thursday in Chicago to one ...

[dropped](https://apnews.com/article/illinois-legal-proceedings-chicago-indictments-e9c78bdcb4a45f9a4a84c856b6c69255) her office's separate sexual abuse charges against Kelly, saying that the former star will likely serve "extensive sentences" in prison already. As it stands, the 56-year-old Kelly is currently expected to serve his sentence until he is in his late 80s. [said](https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/2/23/23611784/r-kelly-sentence-chicago-child-pornography): "Robert shattered me. Kelly was sentenced Thursday in Chicago to one more year in federal prison atop the current 30 years he is serving on a separate federal sentence in New York. The additional year stems from a verdict made last September in an Illinois federal courtroom, in which he was Kelly's lead defense attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, had asked U.S.

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R. Kelly's 2nd conviction extends earlier 30-year sentence by a year (Reuters)

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday sentenced R. Kelly to one additional year in prison for his conviction on sex crimes, extending a 30-year sentence ...

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R. Kelly avoids lengthy add-on to 30-year prison sentence (GoDanRiver.com)

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.

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Juez federal de Chicago sentencia a R. Kelly a un año adicional a ... (Telemundo Chicago)

Juez federal de Chicago sentencia a R. Kelly a un año adicional a su condena previa en Nueva York. En pocas palabras, Kelly cumplirá un total de 31 años tras ...

Kelly salió de la pobreza en Chicago para convertirse en una de las estrellas de R&B más grandes del mundo. Kelly fue absuelto del cargo de marquesina, alegando que manipuló con éxito su juicio estatal de pornografía infantil de 2008. Kelly fue sentenciado a 30 años en Nueva York el año pasado por extorsión y tráfico sexual.

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Juez de Chicago sentencia a 20 años de prisión a R. Kelly (San Diego Union-Tribune en Español)

R. Kelly, de 56 años, fue sentenciado a 20 años de prisión por pornografía infantil e incitar a menores para cometer actos sexuales en Chicago que podrá ...

Kelly fue absuelto del cargo que más había llamado la atención, el cual argumentaba que manipuló su juicio estatal de 2008 por pornografía infantil. La fiscal auxiliar dijo que Kelly “usó a Jane como un objeto sexual, una cosa” para producir videos pornográficos. “El temor de perder el amor, perder el afecto (de Kelly)... Con la voz entrecortada, Nia dijo que Kelly solía recalcar sus supuestas fallas mientras abusaba de ella. tu vida nunca vuelve a ser tuya”, señalaba la declaración de Jane. Con la sentencia del jueves, Kelly no estará en prisión más de 31 años.

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R. Kelly recibe una nueva sentencia a 20 años de prisión por ... (CNN)

(CNN) – El cantante R. Kelly fue sentenciado este jueves a 20 años de prisión en una corte federal de Chicago por cargos de pornografía infantil y tentación ...

El tribunal también escuchó a las personas involucradas en orquestar el matrimonio de Kelly en 1994 con la difunta cantante Aaliyah cuando ella tenía solo 15 años y él era un adulto después de que ella creyó que había quedado embarazada. "En el improbable caso de que Kelly sobreviva a su sentencia de 30 años, no hay razón para creer que reincidiría como geriátrico a mediados de sus 80", escribieron sus abogados. "Hasta el día de hoy, e incluso después del veredicto del jurado en su contra, Kelly se niega a aceptar la responsabilidad por sus crímenes". Dijo que sostuvo relaciones sexuales "cientos" de veces antes de cumplir los 18. Porque tenía miedo de lo que les pudiera pasar a mis padres", dijo. Kelly fue sentenciado este jueves a 20 años de prisión en una corte federal de Chicago por cargos de pornografía infantil y tentación de un menor. En 2002, a Kelly lo acusaron de cargos de pornografía infantil por presuntamente grabarse a sí mismo teniendo sexo con una menor de edad no identificada, pero fue absuelto en 2008. Un mes después, fue acusado en el condado de Cook, Illinois, de 10 cargos de abuso sexual criminal agravado, y dos acusaciones federales siguieron en julio de 2019. Kelly orinó", dijo Jane a través del fiscal, haciendo referencia al infame video sexual que se expuso durante su juicio y que mostraba a Kelly orinando sobre una víctima. Leinenweber dijo que 19 años de los 20 años de prisión se cumplirían simultáneamente con la sentencia anterior. Kelly recibe una nueva sentencia a 20 años de prisión por pornografía infantil en un caso federal. Kelly en el último año, en 2021 un tribunal de Nueva York lo condenó a 30 años de cárcel.

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El cantante R. Kelly, condenado a 20 años por delitos sexuales ... (EL PAÍS)

La cantante de R&B cumplirá la mayor parte de esa condena simultáneamente con una pena de 30 años por cargos de asociación ilícita y tráfico sexual.

En aquel momento, la niña y sus padres negaron que la niña mantuviera relaciones sexuales con Kelly y que ella fuera la chica en la grabación. Dijo que tenía 14 años en la grabación y que el hombre era Kelly, que entonces tendría unos 30 años. En la recomendación de sentencia de la defensa, Bonjean acusó a la fiscalía y a “la sociedad en general” de señalar a Kelly, que es negro, por comportamientos por los que “homólogos blancos” han salido impunes. En el juicio de Chicago del año pasado, Jane dijo públicamente por primera vez que ella era la niña de aquel vídeo sexual. En 2002, el periodista musical Jim DeRogatis, del Chicago Sun-Times, publicó una noticia en la que revelaba que había recibido una cinta de vídeo anónima en la que supuestamente se veía a Kelly manteniendo relaciones sexuales con una niña de 14 años. El periodista también publicó que la policía de Chicago llevaba tres años investigando las acusaciones sobre Kelly y la misma niña. Fue declarado culpable de tres cargos de pornografía infantil y tres cargos de seducción de menores con fines sexuales, pero fue absuelto de otros siete cargos que incluían obstrucción a la justicia y conspiración para recibir pornografía infantil. Su abogada, Jennifer Bonjean, dijo el jueves que Kelly tendrá suerte si sobrevive solo a su condena de 30 años en Nueva York. En su recomendación de sentencia al Tribunal de Distrito de EE UU en Chicago, los fiscales describieron el comportamiento de Kelly como “sádico”, llamándolo “un depredador sexual en serie” sin remordimientos y que “representa un grave peligro para la sociedad”. Por su parte, la defensa del cantante pidió una sentencia mucho más corta, de unos 10 años, y que se podría cumplir simultáneamente con la de Nueva York. Imponerle una condena consecutiva de 25 años como pedía la fiscalía hubiese sido algo “exagerado”, “simbólico”, dijo. Hace una semana, los fiscales solicitaron Kelly -cuyo nombre completo es Robert Sylvester Kelly- recibiera una nueva condena de 25 años que debería cumplir una vez que cumpliese íntegramente su condena de 30 años en Nueva York.

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R. Kelly to learn if he effectively gets 'life' sentence for child porn and ... (PBS NewsHour)

R. Kelly is set to learn whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison when a federal judge sentences him on convictions for child pornography and ...

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)’. “The (government’s) whole theory of grooming, was sort of the opposite of fear of bodily harm,” the judge told the court. “When your virginity is taken by a pedophile at 14 … “I will never get back what I lost to Robert Kelly. … “I have been permanently scarred by Robert.”

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R. Kelly Learns His Fate After Prosecutors Sought What Could Have ... (NBC Chicago)

R. Kelly was sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison for his convictions of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex in Chicago, ...

Kelly’s abuse of children was all the worse, she said, because he “memorialized” his abuse by filming victims, including Jane. Kelly rose from poverty in Chicago to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. “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)'. “I will never get back what I lost to Robert Kelly. “When your virginity is taken by a pedophile at 14 … “Now you are here … Speaking forcefully as her voice quivered, Nia said Kelly would repeatedly pick at her supposed faults while he abused her. His Chicago sentence will be served concurrent to that, with the exception of just one year, Judge Harry Leinenweber ruled. The latter would have been tantamount to a life sentence. … “I have been permanently scarred by Robert.” It’s what they asked for, arguing his crimes against children and lack of remorse justified it.

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El cantante R. Kelly es sentenciado a 20 años de cárcel por abuso ... (San Diego Union-Tribune en Español)

De esta manera, Kelly (56 años), condenado este jueves por tres delitos de abuso sexual de menores y tres de pornografía infantil, pasará un total de 31 años ...

Leinenweber, explicó que Kelly cumplirá 19 de los 20 años de cárcel a los que fue sentenciado hoy al mismo tiempo que la condena anterior. Kelly orinó”, expresó sobre la grabación aportada durante el juicio con las vejaciones del cantante sobre la entonces menor. Un tribunal federal de Chicago (EE.UU.) sentenció este jueves al cantante R.

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