Kenneth Petty, the husband of rap superstar Nicki Minaj, was sentenced on Wednesday to a year of home confinement and three years’ probation for failing to register as a sex offender in California.
A representative of the federal prosecutor’s office told NBC that Petty, 44, was also ordered to pay a US$55,000 fine. Petty was convicted of attempted rape in New York in 1995 when he was 16 years old, according to court documents.
He served four years in prison. The conviction requires Petty to register as a sex offender wherever he chooses to live in the U.S. Read more: ‘Cheer’ star Jerry Harris gets 12 years for sex crimes involving minors In September, Petty pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender in California.
He moved to the state in 2019 but was halted at a traffic stop where authorities learned he had not yet registered. Petty was indicted in March 2020.
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