Cook County State's Attorney will drop four indictments accusing R. Kelly of sexual abuse and assault, since the disgraced singer is already facing decades in prison following separate convictions.
Kamil Krzaczymski/AFP via Getty Imagesof sexual abuse and assault, with the disgraced singer already facing decades in prison following two separate convictions on federal charges.
R.L. , victim of two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse between Sept. 26, 1998, and Sept. 25, 2001;Kelly, 56, likely already will spend the rest of his life in prison, as he is already facing a 30-year prison sentence following a 2021 racketeering conviction in federal court New York, and decades more behind bars following his conviction in federal court in Chicago on charges of child pornography and enticing minors to engage in sex.
Among the claims detailed at trial – his marriage to the late R&B singer Aaliyah, and how a government worker was bribed to get her a fake ID so Kelly could marry the then-15-year-old because he feared he had gotten her pregnant. Jurors acquitted Kelly and McDavid, his former business manager, of a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge that accused them of rigging his 2008 child pornography trial in Cook County by covering up incriminating sex tapes, and intimidating and paying off Jane and her parents to keep his abuse of her secret.
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