Things seem to be getting only worse for R. Kelly as federal prosecutors have asked a judge to add an additional 25 years to the singer’s sentence for his child p*rnography and enticement convictions in Chicago last year. The request was made on Thursday in Chicago’s U.S. District Court where prosecutors argued that the “Step In The Name Of Love” hitmaker is a threat and serious danger to society and that his convictions alone had proven that he’s a sadistic “serial sexual predator.”
“The only way to ensure Kelly does not re-offend is to impose a sentence that will keep him in prison for the rest of his life,” the filing read, according to NBC News. R. Kelly is already facing 30 years from his New York sentence, so an additional 25 years would mean he wouldn’t be eligible for release until he’s around 100 years old. A court hearing has been scheduled in Chicago for next week where the judge will decide whether or not Kelly will receive the additional years, and if he does, he’ll undoubtedly spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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His attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, has since argued that a sentence of 10 years would be reasonable which she wants him to serve simultaneously with his New York sentence, further arguing that her client is receiving unfair treatment in comparison to white rock stars who have done much worse but seemingly gotten away with their bad behavior for decades. Her argument appeared to strongly imply that the way Kelly has been treated since his conviction could partially be because he’s a Black man. On top of that, considering the average life expectancy of an inmate is 64, Bonjean thinks it’s unreasonable to hand Kelly another 25 years to his already lengthy sentence.
“None have been prosecuted and none will die in prison,” she contended. But in the filing, it was stressed that the long history of Kelly’s abuse towards minors evidently shows that his behavior isn’t something out of the blue. Kelly being released from prison could pose a threat to society based on the fact that his “sadistic” behavior pattern is said to have gone on for about three decades based on witness statements in his Chicago and New York trials.
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Bonjean believes that Kelly’s difficult childhood, along with the traumas he endured growing up in Chicago in an abusive household, should justify leniency in sentencing the singer with lesser time than to hand him another 25 years for a crime he’s already serving time for.
“Kelly “is not an evil monster but a complex (unquestionably troubled) human being who faced overwhelming challenges in childhood that shaped his adult life,” she wrote. “While Kelly was not a child in the late 1990s, he also was not the middle-aged man he was at the time of his 2019 indictment. Kelly was a damaged man in his late 20s.”
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