R Kelly sentenced to 30 years in prison
completemusicupdate.comR Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after being found guilty in the New York courts last year of establishing and running a criminal enterprise in order to sexually and physically abuse women and teenagers.The musician continues to deny all the allegations that have been made against him, both during the criminal case in New York and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, during the sentencing proceedings, his legal team pushed for a more lenient sentence of no more than ten years, arguing that Kelly had been abused as a child, and that that abuse may have led to his “hypersexuality” as an adult.
The defence lawyers also insisted that their client no longer posed a risk to the public.However, judge Ann Donnelly was not persuaded by those arguments.
She said that Kelly had demonstrated an “indifference to human suffering” and that he had taught his numerous victims that “love is enslavement and violence”.Ahead of Kelly’s sentencing, the judge heard impact statements from seven of those victims.
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