R Kelly will serve an additional year in prison on charges relating to indecent images of children and child enticement after completing his 30-year racketeering sentence, a federal judge has ruled.
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 simultaneously alongside the sentence he received in 2022.
Following a high-profile trial in New York in 2021, he was found guilty of racketeering and trafficking, which came after years of accusations throughout his career.
This additional sentence means Kelly will serve no more than 31 years. He will be eligible for release by the time he is 80 years old.
The central question going into the sentencing in Kelly’s hometown of Chicago was whether District Judge Harry Leinenweber would order the 56-year-old to serve the additional sentence simultaneously with or only after he completes his 30-year sentence.
The latter would have been equal to a life sentence.
Prosecutors had acknowledged that lengthening his sentence would have erased any chance of Kelly getting out of prison alive, but argued that his crimes against children and lack of remorse justified it.
Two of Kelly’s accusers also asked the judge to punish him harshly.
In a statement read aloud in court, a woman who testified under the pseudonym “Jane” said she had lost her early aspirations to become a singer herself and her hopes for fulfilling relationships.
Kelly rose from poverty to become one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. He became known for chart-topping hits including I Believe I Can Fly, Bump ‘N’ Grind and Ignition.
Although abuse allegations began circulating in the 1990s, widespread outrage followed the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 series Surviving R Kelly. Sky News
The prisoners will enjoy his music performance then.
Bansi Fwangyi Tongman 4 sre from born into 90s, Jesus thus a long time ⌛ 🥺
Ko ngavangotaura kuti panze hauchadzoka
i did’nt told you Ras Schadd
Dogin Cat mesmo assim .. vai sentir os 30
31 aumentaram mais um ano leia bem o post,e provavelmente vai cumprir metade da pena em liberdade condicional
Very bad
Luminat ukaramba zvavanoda vanoita zvekuti vakukande kuzandomu …same story na kartel
Lovemore Kashaka makazvinzwepi
Lovemore Kashaka are u an Illuminati, hw do u knw all that
Lovemore Kashaka usanyepera vanhu para mhosva uone zvoitika
Lovemore Kashaka wangu Kartel killed someone so he must go to jail simple…R Kelly is a rapist that’s why he’s in jail too
RKelly hawaidaro 😭
Uuuum Nehanda chimbitsvaga nyaya dzemu zim usiye ya R Kelly its well covered chai
The illumination leaves it’s people in darkness after finishing with them.
If you deny what they want they will put you away
Black skin
America is Hell on Earth, they have perpetuated every evil on earth and never have they been made to pay for the crimes on humanity on all corners of the globe,it’s a travesty that they believe they can continue to be allowed to be the world’s so called moral compass because of their stolen wealth!🤞🏽
Its a curse to be a blackman in the US, shame😭😭
Makumi masere urimuchizarira chawapinda wava mutana…pawunoinda nyikadzimu unosvika uchinova mudzimu unehasha
He will be out before 80
The criminals make the law to oppress others or to gain what they want,l tried and tried but no one understands l
Blambi yakamuparira uyu
Dealing with world order (secret society ain’t easy
Eventhough found guilty nd imprisoned he is a great man musically.
story that touchs the heart
Saka ambova nemakore mangani arimo mucollage
How I love his music,it’s a pity he has been locked up but he remains an out of this world super talent
Forgive him please
..tts y I hate mkdz…akakuvadziswa nemkdz bhambi uyu
By then he will be called Z-Kelly
The Shitstem is a fraud