CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday (Feb 23) sentenced R. Kelly to one additional year in prison for his conviction on sex crimes, extending a 30-year sentence handed to the Grammy-winning R&B singer after an earlier trial in New York, local media reported. At a 90-minute hearing, Judge Harry Leinenweber of the US District Court for Northern...
R. Kelly leaves the Criminal Court Building after pleading not guilty during a hearing on eleven new counts of criminal sexual abuse in Chicago, Illinois, US on June 6, 2019.CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday sentenced R. Kelly to one additional year in prison for his conviction on sex crimes, extending a 30-year sentence handed to the Grammy-winning R&B singer after an earlier trial in New York, local media reported.
"The nature of this offense is horrible, horrific," Leinenweber said before handing down the sentence, CBS reported. The jury also saw a video of Kelly molesting his goddaughter, who testified that the abuse began in the 1990s when she was a teenager. Kelly's behaviour came under increasing scrutiny after the #MeToo movement began in late 2017, and Lifetime aired the documentary Surviving R. Kelly in January 2019.