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In his latest Chicago trial, R. Kelly was accused of producing and receiving kid porn, enticing minors for enactment and conspiring to obstruct justness successful transportation to his 2008 case.
R. Kelly Sentenced to Prison successful Sex Trafficking Case
Content warning: This communicative discusses kid intersexual abuse.
R. Kelly's proceedings successful Chicago has reached a conclusion.
On Sept. 14, the vocalist (born Robert Kelly) was recovered blameworthy connected six charges relating to enactment crimes and not blameworthy connected 7 counts, according to NBC News.
Prior to the verdict, Kelly faced 13 counts successful total: 4 counts of producing kid porn, 1 number of conspiring to receiving kid porn, 2 counts of receiving kid porn, 5 counts of enticing minors for enactment and 1 number of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
The assemblage recovered him guilty of three charges of intersexual exploitation of children, related to the accumulation of kid pornography. However, he was found not blameworthy of attempting to obstruct a anterior investigation.
After the verdict, Kelly's lawyer told reporters that the lawsuit was overcharged. She said his squad is not celebrating a triumph wholly but are grateful the assemblage looked astatine each count. She said she begged the assemblage to retrieve that helium is simply a quality being with a hard childhood.
Throughout the four-week courtroom proceeding, prosecutors alleged that Kelly had obstructed the instrumentality successful rigging his previous kid porn case, which yet ended with his 2008 acquittal. The latest ineligible conflict saw testimonies from 4 women accusing the R&B creator of sexually abusing them erstwhile they were children, including 1 who identified herself arsenic the idiosyncratic from the video astatine the halfway of Kelly's past trial.
During closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Pozolo accused Kelly of moving with others "to screen up" the alleged maltreatment by paying radical for their silence. "Robert Kelly abused galore girls implicit galore years. He committed horrible crimes against children," she told the 12-person jury. "The information has travel out."
For his part, Kelly has denied each charges against him.
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The latest Chicago proceedings came astir a twelvemonth aft Kelly was found guilty of racketeering, bribery, coercion, enticement and enactment trafficking successful a separate lawsuit successful New York. He was sentenced to 30 years successful prison arsenic good as five years of supervised merchandise and a $100,000 good this June.
Kelly has remained successful jailhouse since his July 2019 arrest.
He faces further charges successful Minnesota.
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