Condenaron a R. Kelly a 20 años de cárcel por pornografía infantil

Por AFP -febrero 24, 2023 – Condenaron a R. Kelly a 20 años de cárcel por pornografía infantil

Un juez de Chicago ordenó que la mayor parte de la nueva sentencia del cantante de R&B, de 56 años, se cumpla de manera concurrente, excepto por un año, que purgará una vez se haya cumplido la totalidad de la anterior, de 30 años de prisión por delitos sexuales

El cantante estadounidense R. Kelly, estrella del R&B y que ya había sido condenado a 30 años de prisión por delitos sexuales, fue sentenciado a 20 años de prisión el jueves por pornografía infantil en un caso separado, ante una corte federal de Chicago.

El juez en Chicago, Harry Leinenweber, ordenó que la mayor parte de la nueva sentencia se cumpla de manera concurrente, excepto por un año, que purgará una vez se haya cumplido la totalidad de la anterior, dictada en junio pasado en Nueva York.

Robert Sylvester Kelly, de 56 años, había sido encontrado culpable por un jurado federal en Chicago del delito de producción de pornografía infantil y corrupción de menores.

Extractos de videos que muestran la violencia sexual cometida por R. Kelly a chicas jóvenes, una de ellas de 14 años, fueron difundidas durante el proceso.

El cantante, señalado de haber obstaculizado el desarrollo de otro proceso previo por pornografía infantil en 2008, fue absuelto de los cargos de obstrucción a la justicia.

Mundialmente famoso por su éxito «I Believe I Can Fly» y los 75 millones de discos vendidos, había tenido una exitosa carrera en el R&B pese a las sospechas de agresiones sexuales.

Finalmente, en septiembre de 2021 fue hallado culpable de haber manejado durante años un sistema de explotación sexual de jóvenes y adolescentes y fue condenado en junio pasado a 30 años de prisión por un tribunal de Nueva York.

R. Kelly Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison For Child Pornography Case

By Thania Garcia
R. Kelly will concurrently serve all but one year of the new 20-year sentence with his previous 30-year term.

R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child sex crimes in a Chicago federal courtroom on Thursday.

The 56-year-old singer, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was found guilty of six of the 13 charges brought against him (all were filed in 2019), including three counts of coercing minors into sexual activity and three of producing sex tapes involving a minor.

The jury found that Kelly had produced three videos of himself sexually abusing his then 14-year-old goddaughter. He was acquitted of a charge that he had attempted to block an earlier investigation into his abuse of the goddaughter, and two other counts of enticing minors to have sex.

Kelly is already serving a 30-year prison term for his 2021 conviction on racketeering and sex trafficking charges in a New York federal court. Though prosecutors asked for a 25-year sentence to be served once his other 30-year prison sentence is complete, the judge ruled that all but one year of the prison sentence would be served simultaneously with the previous sentence. With this, Kelly technically avoids a life sentence, though he is still serving a full 31 years in prison.

“The only way to ensure he will not re-offend is to impose a sentence that will keep him in prison for the rest of his life,” said prosecutor Jeannice Williams Appenteng, according to a report by the New York Times.

Kelly was found guilty in September on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement but was acquitted of a fourth pornography count. He was also acquitted of the conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him of fixing his state child pornography trial in 2008.

The sentencing hearing is the latest in the culmination of nearly three decades of allegations against Kelly. In 2002, Kelly was indicted on several child pornography charges for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with an unidentified underage girl, but he was acquitted in 2008 on all counts after the jury deliberated for a day.

Kelly’s lawyers have decided to appeal the convictions in both New York and Chicago. The disgraced R&B singer has been in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago since his arrest in 2019.

More from the original source: https://variety.com/2023/music/news/r-kelly-sentenced-20-years-child-porn-case-1235533541/