R. Kelly gets extra prison time after latest sex abuse conviction

Disgraced vocalist R. Kelly indispensable walk an other twelvemonth successful situation connected apical of a 30-year condemnation helium is already serving.

Kelly was jailed successful June 2022 for 3 decades for enactment trafficking and racketeering aft a proceedings successful New York.

Several months later, helium was convicted successful a 2nd national proceedings successful Chicago of enticing minors for enactment and producing kid intersexual imagery.

He has present received a 20-year word for those crimes, but 19 volition beryllium served astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the erstwhile sentence.

If served successful full, helium volition beryllium down bars until helium is successful his mid-80s.

Federal prosecutors were seeking a 25-year condemnation successful the 2nd case, higher than required nether national sentencing guidelines. They said Kelly's crimes were made worse by the information that helium filmed them, with immoderate of the footage aboriginal becoming disposable online.

"Because Kelly is Kelly, much radical person watched kid pornography," they said successful a memo. "The effects of Kelly's behaviour are wide-ranging, incalculable and irreversible."

The memo argued that Kelly has an "insatiable" tendency to maltreatment children, and that a lengthy condemnation was required to "protect the community" from further harm.

Kelly's defence attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, had asked the justice to let Kelly to service his latest condemnation concurrently with the erstwhile sentence, meaning helium would person served them astatine the aforesaid time. She said a consecutive condemnation would magnitude to a "second beingness sentence".

She besides accused prosecutors of utilizing an "embellished" communicative to "inflame" perceptions of the erstwhile R&B star.

During the Chicago trial, the unfortunate - known by the pseudonym "Jane" - testified that Kelly sexually abused her hundreds of times earlier she turned 18.

Three videos of the maltreatment were shown to jurors during the trial. Four different women besides accused Kelly abusing them arsenic children.

In his erstwhile proceedings successful New York, jurors heard that Kelly trafficked women for intersexual maltreatment crossed the US, with assistance from his managers and different members of his entourage.

The Grammy-winning vocalist - best-known for songs specified arsenic Ignition (Remix) and the hugely fashionable 1996 anthem I Believe I Can Fly - is among the highest-profile musicians accused of maltreatment successful the aftermath of the #MeToo movement.