The disgraced R&B musician R. Kelly was found guilty of all nine charges against him in a high-profile sex trafficking case and sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday, June 29. He was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Donnelly in a Brooklyn courtroom after many of R. Kelly’s victims confronted him aggressively during the hearing. Some of his victims who spoke before the court on Wednesday said that during their time under Kelly’s captivity, they hardly had any desire to live. In September last year, R. Kelly was found guilty of racketeering and breaking the Mann Act, which forbids moving people over state borders for any immoral purpose. Prosecutors said R. Kelly was a serial sexual predator who victimized young women, as well as juvenile girls and boys, for more than two decades. Also, they said that he and his group ran a criminal organisation that travelled throughout the country to attend events and concerts while recruiting and grooming women for sex. The Grammy-winning R. Kelly was regarded as one of the kings of R&B in the 1990s and 2000s. He was highly recognised for helping to reshape the genre. He is best known for the 1996 single “I Believe I Can Fly.” R. Kelly will go on trial in August in Chicago on federal child pornography and obstruction of justice.
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