R. Kelly has reportedly been sentenced to 30 years in prison after being found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking charges last year.
On Wednesday (June 29), R. Kelly appeared in court to be sentenced, 10 months after he was found guilty in Brooklyn, N.Y. federal court in September of 2021. Judge Ann M. Donnelly sentence Kelly to serve 30 years in prison, according to the New York Times.
“The public has to be protected from behaviors like this,” judge Donnelly reportedly told Kelly during the sentencing. “These crimes were calculated and carefully planned and regularly executed for almost 25 years,” she added. “You taught them that love is enslavement and violence.”
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