NEW YORK — Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for using his fame to sexually abuse young fans, including some who were just children, in a systematic scheme that went on for decades.
A third woman, sobbing and sniffling as she spoke, said Kelly’s conviction renewed her confidence in the legal system.The woman said Kelly victimized her after she went to a concert when she was 17. As an adult with “literacy deficiencies,” the star was "repeatedly defrauded and financially abused, often by the people he paid to protect him,” his lawyers said.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, used his “fame, money and popularity” to systematically “prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing earlier this month. According to testimony, Kelly gave several accusers herpes without disclosing he had an STD, coerced a teenage boy to join him for sex with a naked girl who emerged from underneath a boxing ring in his garage, and shot a shaming video that showed one victim smearing feces on her face as punishment for breaking his rules.
You see Usher pulled up on LA Reid… it’s he gotta confess he ain’t gone be the only one.
While Epstein's main contact person got 20. Something isn't right here,
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