Prosecutors Want R. Kelly Sentenced To At Least 25 Years In Prison

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By Ashlee Banks ·Updated June 9, 2022

Federal prosecutors are recommending that R&B singer R. Kelly be sentenced to at least 25 years behind bars.

According to the Associated Press, on Wednesday, prosecutors filed a 31-page sentencing memo and stated the disgraced 55-year-old artist used his “fame, money and popularity” to “prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York

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