Cook County State Attorney drops charges against already jailed R Kelly
completemusicupdate.comThe State Attorney of Cook County in the US state of Illinois, Kim Foxx, yesterday announced that her office is dropping the charges it previously filed against R Kelly, concluding that the prosecution isn’t necessary given that the musician has already been convicted of similar crimes in the federal courts of both Illinois and New York.Kelly faced charges in multiple US jurisdictions following the broadcast of the documentary ‘Surviving R Kelly’ in 2019.
That programme, of course, put the spotlight on the many allegations of sexual abuse that had been made against the star in the preceding decades.The first case to get to court, in 2021, was in New York, where Kelly was found guilty of building and running a criminal enterprise in order to access and abuse women and teenagers.Then last year, Kelly was found guilty in the federal court in his home city of Chicago of three charges of enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity and three more in relation to his filming of that sexual abuse of children.Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in jail in relation to the New York conviction.
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