Cook dinner County State’s Legal professional Kim Foxx introduced on Monday that her workplace is dropping the pending sexual assault and abuse instances towards disgraced singer and convicted felon R. Kelly, following federal convictions towards him in New York and Chicago. Kelly is already serving 30 years for his conviction in New York and is anticipated to serve a number of a long time as soon as sentencing takes place in Chicago subsequent month.
Foxx introduced the information forward of Tuesday’s courtroom listening to associated to the state costs. In February 2019, a Cook dinner County grand jury gave Kelly 4 indictments. He was charged with 10 counts of aggravated prison sexual abuse involving 4 alleged victims, three of whom had been underneath the age of consent. The alleged incidents occurred between 1998 and 2010.
Kelly was additionally charged by federal prosecutors in New York and Chicago later in 2019; these trials took priority. In New York, he was convicted in 2021 of sexual exploitation of a kid, racketeering, bribery and intercourse trafficking and is at the moment serving a 30-year jail sentence, although he’s interesting the case.
In the meantime, in September, a federal jury in Chicago discovered Kelly responsible on three counts of kid pornography and three counts of enticement of a kid. The video central to the federal Chicago case was additionally the one concerned within the 2008 baby pornography trial the place he was acquitted. He’s anticipated to be sentenced on Feb. 23.
On Monday, Foxx mentioned, “Mr. Kelly is probably taking a look at a chance of by no means strolling out of jail once more for the crimes that he’s dedicated,” Foxx mentioned. “This workplace, within the pursuit of justice for the victims in our indictment in addition to these throughout the nation, labored tirelessly to get us up to now. Whereas at the moment’s instances are not being pursued, we consider that justice has been served and the sentences which have already been handed right down to Mr. Kelly, in addition to the sentence that can come down subsequent month.”
She added that she understood as a survivor herself that the choice “could also be disappointing” to the ladies who got here ahead within the state instances — some who’ve been ready 20 years — for his or her day in courtroom. However she mentioned with Kelly probably serving a long time in jail, that she and her workplace believed that “justice has been served.” She mentioned her workplace personally consulted with the 4 alleged victims earlier than making the choice, acknowledging that one in every of them voiced their disappointment.
Kelly can be going through costs of partaking in prostitution with a minor and soliciting a minor for sexual functions in Minnesota.