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R Kel­ly Con­vict­ed | Pop­u­lar singer R Kel­ly is set to be con­vict­ed of lur­ing girls and women into sex </p>

Mul­ti-plat­inum R&B singer R. Kel­ly is sen­tenced Wednes­day for using his fame and for­tune for decades to lure women and under­age girls into his orbit for sex.

Kel­ly, 55, was con­vict­ed in fed­er­al court in Brook­lyn last Sep­tem­ber after a 5 1/2‑week tri­al that added to alle­ga­tions that have dogged the singer of the Gram­my-win­ning hit “I Believe I Can Fly” since the ear­ly 2000s .

Kel­ly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kel­ly, is among the most promi­nent peo­ple con­vict­ed of sex­u­al mis­con­duct dur­ing the #MeToo move­ment against such behav­ior by promi­nent men. He has repeat­ed­ly denied alle­ga­tions of sex­u­al abuse.

US Dis­trict Judge Ann Don­nel­ly is sched­uled to sen­tence Kel­ly at a hear­ing begin­ning at 10:30 am EDT (14:30 GMT).

Pros­e­cu­tors said Kel­ly should serve more than 25 years in prison on charges of rack­e­teer­ing and eight counts of vio­lat­ing the Mann Act, which bans the trans­porta­tion of peo­ple across state lines for pros­ti­tu­tion. They argued he showed a “cal­lous dis­re­gard” for his vic­tims and showed no remorse.

Kel­ly’s lawyers said he earned no more than 10 years, the manda­to­ry min­i­mum, argu­ing that his his­to­ry as an abused child may have led to his “hyper­sex­u­al­i­ty” as an adult and that he no longer posed a risk.

Dur­ing the tri­al, sev­er­al of his abuse vic­tims tes­ti­fied how Kel­ly would require his vic­tims to strict­ly fol­low rules such as need­ing his per­mis­sion to eat or use the bath­room, call­ing him “dad­dy” and writ­ing “apol­o­gy let­ters,” who alleged­ly acquit­ted him of wrongdoing.

Kel­ly also faces fed­er­al charges of child pornog­ra­phy and obstruc­tion in Chica­go and state charges in Illi­nois and Minnesota.

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