A US judge on Thursday handed disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison term for child pornography and other charges.
A US judge on Thursday handed disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly a 20-year prison term for child pornography and other charges – but he will serve most of it simultaneously with a previous sentence.
Kelly, 56, is already serving a 30-year sentence he received after a Brooklyn jury in a separate federal trial convicted him on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
The judge in Chicago – Kelly’s hometown, where he was once seen as a source of pride – ruled that most of the new sentence would be served concurrently with the previous one, with all but one year taken at the same time.
