R. Kelly gets 30 years in prison for sex crimes...

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/r-kelly-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-for-sex-crimes/ar-AAZ0uX9?cvid=b02d9acafe2e442cbef60067caa78bc0

R. Kelly, the disgraced R&B singer convicted of leading a criminal enterprise geared at helping him prey on others for his own sexual gratification, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Kelly, 55, was found guilty last September of all charges against him in Brooklyn federal court. They included racketeering based on sexual exploitation of children, kidnapping, forced labor, and violations of the Mann Act, which barred the transport of people across state lines for sex.

On Wednesday, Kelly greeted Judge Anna Donnelly “good morning” and appeared to be taking notes as his sentencing hearing began. Wearing black glasses and a khaki shirt, the singer quickly put his head down as Donnelly began to go over the sentencing guidelines.

Several women issued victim impact statements before the sentence was rendered, all detailing the effects of Kelly’s pattern of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse. A woman identified as Angela, who testified at trial about how she was sexually assaulted by the singer when she was a teenager, looked directly at Kelly as she called him a “pied piper” who lured children with fame.

“With every addition of a new victim, you grew in wickedness,” Angela said. “You used your fame and power to groom and coach underage boys and girls for your own sexual gratification.”

Lizette Martinez, who was in the Surviving R. Kelly docu-series, kept it simple in her statement to the court on Wednesday: “Robert, you destroyed so many people’s lives,”

The grueling six-week trial came after two years of delays spurred by a global pandemic and various legal hurdles—and decades of allegations, charges, and lawsuits. During his sentencing hearing on Wednesday, prosecutors focused on the harrowing abuse revealed during the trial while recommending that Kelly be sentenced to more than 25 years in prison to “protect the public from further crimes.”

“He continued his crimes and avoided punishment for them for almost 30 years and must now be held to account,” federal prosecutors said in a 31-page sentencing memo. “Indeed, the defendant’s decades of crime appear to have been fueled by narcissism and a belief that his musical talent absolved him of any need to conform his conduct—no matter how predatory, harmful, humiliating, or abusive to others—to the structures of the law.”

Kelly’s legal team argued that the singer’s sexual conduct was consensual and that those who spoke out against him were essentially disgruntled exes with an agenda. In a sentencing memo, the team, helmed by Jennifer Bojean, who successfully represented Bill Cosby in his appeal of sexual-assault charges in Pennsylvania, argued that he should be sentenced to less than 10 years, claiming the singer was a victim of abuse himself.

Nine women and two men took to the stand during the trial to discuss abuse they endured at the hands of Kelly. Almost all of the individuals who testified were under the age of 18 when they first had sexual contact with him. Among the women who testified was one identified as Jane, who testified about a five-year relationship with Kelly that began when she was 17.

In what was probably the most horrifying episode of the trial, she broke down on the stand as she described Kelly making her smear feces on her mouth and eat it on video as punishment for disobeying one of his rules. (Another time, she said, Kelly made her have an abortion to keep “her body tight.”)

“He told me to smear it in my face and what to exactly say, and to, like, put it in my mouth and act like I liked, enjoyed that,” she told jurors.

[NEWPOSTERGUY! 269]

C'MON, LADY JUSTICE! WATSON NEXT! 

[Voltaire 4,570]

I haven't followed this case, but if these allegations are true, and he's been convicted so it sure looks that way, this guy is awful.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,751]

Groomer 

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[posty 2,296]

13 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

this guy is awful.

His "music" or him?

[NorthernVike 2,080]

Dat's racist.  He be gettin' a harsher sentence the Epstein's biotch. 

[Horseman 1,526]

Just now, NorthernVike said:

Dat's racist.  He be gettin' a harsher sentence the Epstein's biotch. 

I came here to post the same thing.

[wiffleball 4,654]

Damn. Crazy.  

[weepaws 2,478]

Good bye.  

[TimHauck 1,822]

4 hours ago, NorthernVike said:

Dat's racist.  He be gettin' a harsher sentence the Epstein's biotch. 

Or sexist 

[Voltaire 4,570]

7 hours ago, posty said:

His "music" or him?

I don't have an opinion of his music since I couldn't identify a single lyric, but my hunch is that that he's part of a genre that totally sucks ass. I guess I could take ten seconds to verify.

[peenie 1,696]

15 hours ago, Voltaire said:

I don't have an opinion of his music since I couldn't identify a single lyric, but my hunch is that that he's part of a genre that totally sucks ass. I guess I could take ten seconds to verify.

I believe I can fly....
I believe I can touch the sky....

[edjr 5,591]

I guess there is something wrong with a little bump and grind 

[edjr 5,591]

He will be out the same time Puddin pop got out?

[Voltaire 4,570]

7 hours ago, peenie said:

I believe I can fly....
I believe I can touch the sky....

Oh. That’s a good song. I generally tune out any new artist that comes along after 1992. Now I feel bad. I’d probably like his music.

[edjr 5,591]

16 hours ago, peenie said:

I believe I can fly....
I believe I can touch a 13 year old's pie

Much better

[kutulu 1,552]

Don't call it a cumback