Posted by OluwaFemi.
on 14 February, 2025 underneath Leisure
A federal enchantment court docket in Manhattan has upheld singer R. Kelly’s 30-year jail sentence.
The court docket additionally upheld his racketeering and intercourse trafficking convictions.
R. Kelly was convicted for racketeering and intercourse trafficking in 2021.
In 2022, the singer bagged one other 20-year jail time period for little one intercourse expenses, together with expenses of manufacturing photos of kid sexual abuse in Chicago.
The Attraction Court docket, on Wednesday February 12, 2025, concluded that the 58-year-old musician used his fame to use and sexually abuse ladies and younger ladies
Additionally, the three-judge panel rejected his declare that prosecutors didn’t show he established a racketeering scheme to recruit ladies and underage ladies for intercourse.
The court docket held:
“Enabled by a constellation of managers, assistants, and his different workers for over 25-years, Kelly exploited his fame to lure women and younger ladies into his grasp.
“Proof at trial proved that he would isolate victims from family and friends, management each facet of their lives, and abuse them bodily, sexually, and verbally.”
Reacting to the Attraction Court docket judgement in a press release, Kelly’s authorized consultant, Jennifer Bonjean, mentioned she would enchantment the case on the Supreme Court docket.
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