R. Kelly

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 ...

“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.

A US judge has handed disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison term for child abuse imagery and other charges - but he will serve most of it ...

That verdict was widely seen as a milestone for the #MeToo movement. The federal conviction in Chicago came one year after Kelly was convicted in New York of systematically recruiting teenagers and women for sex. A US judge has handed disgraced R&B singer R.

US District Judge Harry Leinenweber also ordered that Kelly serve one year in prison following his New York sentence.

Kelly’s abuse of children was all the worse, she said, because he “memorialised” his abuse by filming victims, including Jane. 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. Because it is R Kelly.” “I will never get back what I lost to Robert Kelly. The latter would have been tantamount to a life sentence.

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

“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 disgraced R&B singer, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was handed a 20-year prison term on Thursday, but he will serve nearly all of the sentence ...

This additional sentence means Kelly will serve no more than 31 years. [Everybody knew the accusations - so why did it take 30 years to get justice?](https://news.sky.com/story/r-kelly-convicted-everybody-knew-the-accusations-so-why-did-it-take-30-years-to-get-justice-12420062) [R Kelly: A timeline of abuse](https://news.sky.com/story/r-kelly-a-timeline-of-sexual-abuse-allegations-as-singer-faces-trial-in-new-york-12383223) [Everybody knew the claims - why did it take 30 years to get justice?](https://news.sky.com/story/r-kelly-convicted-everybody-knew-the-allegations-so-why-has-it-taken-30-years-to-get-justice-12420062) The additional sentence will mean the Grammy Award winner will serve 31 years in total in prison, following a 30-year sentence he received last year for racketeering and trafficking.