{"id":1138157,"date":"2022-06-30T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T08:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/sex-crimes-singer-r-kelly-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T08:55:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T08:55:06","slug":"sex-crimes-singer-r-kelly-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/sex-crimes-singer-r-kelly-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex crimes: Singer R. Kelly Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Embattled R&#038;B singer, R. Kelly, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for recruiting and trapping teenagers and women for sex.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Ann Donnelly handed down the term in the Brooklyn federal court nearly a year after the 55-year-old Kelly was convicted by a New York jury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe verdict is in: R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years,\u201d the US attorney\u2019s office for the Eastern District of New York said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutors had urged the court to put the \u201cI Believe I Can Fly\u201d artist behind bars for at least 25 years, saying he still \u201cposes a serious danger to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September, the fallen superstar was found guilty on all nine charges he faced, including the most serious of racketeering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis actions were brazen, manipulative, controlling and coercive. He has shown no remorse or respect for the law,\u201d prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s lawyers called for a lighter sentence with a maximum of approximately 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence comes just over a month before jury selection is due to start in Kelly\u2019s separate, long-delayed federal trial in Chicago on August 15.<\/p>\n<p>In that case, Kelly and two of his former associates are alleged to have rigged the singer\u2019s 2008 pornography trial and hid years of sexual abuse of minors.<\/p>\n<p>The musician who once dominated R&#038;B also faces prosecution in two other state jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled R&#038;B singer, R. Kelly, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for recruiting and trapping teenagers and women for sex. Judge Ann Donnelly handed down the term in the Brooklyn federal court nearly a year after the 55-year-old Kelly was convicted by a New York jury. \u201cThe verdict is in: R. Kelly has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11634,16888,3509,3333,1017,741,1151],"class_list":["post-1138157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-crimes","tag-kelly","tag-prison","tag-sentenced","tag-sex","tag-singer","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}