{"id":27627,"date":"2024-04-27T05:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=27627"},"modified":"2024-04-27T05:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:34:07","slug":"r-kelly-loses-appeal-to-overturn-20-year-sentence-for-child-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/04\/27\/r-kelly-loses-appeal-to-overturn-20-year-sentence-for-child-sex-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"R Kelly loses appeal to overturn 20-year sentence for child sex abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

R Kelly’s challenge against a 20-year sentence for child sex convictions has been quashed by an appeals court.<\/p>\n

The singer was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison, a Chicago court ruled on Friday.<\/p>\n

He was convicted in 2022 on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images and three charges of enticement of minors for sex.<\/p>\n

In his appeal,\u00a0Kelly<\/a><\/strong>, 57, argued Illinois’ old statute of limitations – which required prosecution of child sex crime charges within 10 years – should have applied, rather than the current law permitting charges while an accuser is still alive.<\/p>\n

The appeals court rejected this, labelling it an attempt by Kelly to elude the charges entirely after “employing a complex scheme to keep victims quiet”.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have said the video showed Kelly abusing a girl. The accuser, only identified as Jane, testified for the first time that she was 14 when the video was taken.<\/p>\n

The three-judge panel from the Chicago-based seventh US circuit court of appeals noted jurors acquitted Kelly on seven of the 13 counts against him “even after viewing those abhorrent tapes”.<\/p>\n

In a written statement, Kelly’s attorney Jennifer Bonjean said they plan to seek a US Supreme Court review of the decision and “pursue all of his appellate remedies until we free R Kelly”.<\/p>\n

“We are disappointed in the ruling, but our fight is far from over,” she said.<\/p>\n

Source: \u00a0\"Sky<\/a> news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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