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Ladybbird · 28-04-24, 10:55

US Court Upholds R Kellys' 30-Year Prison Term For Child Sexual Abuse

Singer had appealed 2022 conviction by a Chicago jury stating Illinois’s shorter statute of limitations applied to his case

The Guardian 28 APR 2024

The singer R Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years to run concurrently 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.

The three-judge panel from the Chicago-based seventh US circuit court of appeals in Friday’s ruling noted that jurors acquitted Kelly on seven of the 13 counts against him “even after viewing those abhorrent tapes”.

The appeals court also rejected Kelly’s argument that he should not have been prosecuted since the allegations occurred while Illinois law required prosecution of child sexual abuse crime charges within 10 years. The panel labeled it an attempt by Kelly to elude the charges entirely after “employing a complex scheme to keep victims quiet”.

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Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,785 Thanks: 27,673 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	US Court Upholds PEDO R Kellys' 30-Year Prison Term US Court Upholds R Kellys' 30-Year Prison Term For Child Sexual Abuse Singer had appealed 2022 conviction by a Chicago jury stating Illinois’s shorter statute of limitations applied to his case The Guardian 28 APR 2024 The singer R Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years to run concurrently 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. The three-judge panel from the Chicago-based seventh US circuit court of appeals in Friday’s ruling noted that jurors acquitted Kelly on seven of the 13 counts against him “even after viewing those abhorrent tapes”. The appeals court also rejected Kelly’s argument that he should not have been prosecuted since the allegations occurred while Illinois law required prosecution of child sexual abuse crime charges within 10 years. The panel labeled it an attempt by Kelly to elude the charges entirely after “employing a complex scheme to keep victims quiet”.