US court upholds R Kelly's 20-year prison term for child sexual abuse
The singer R Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sexual abuse convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images and three charges of enticement of minors for sex.
In his appeal, Kelly argued that Illinois’s former and shorter statute of limitations on child sexual abuse crime prosecutions should have applied to his Chicago case rather than current law permitting charges while an accuser is still alive.
He also argued that charges involving one accuser should have been tried separately from the charges tied to three other accusers due to video evidence that became a focal point of the Chicago trial.
Federal prosecutors have said the video showed Kelly abusing a girl. The accuser, identified only as Jane, testified for the first time that she was 14 when the video was taken.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/r-kelly-20-year-prison-sentence-chicago
He better be glad he's not in Tennessee. They just instituted the death penalty for pedophiles.