<h4>Court In Manhattan Upholds</h4>
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<p><strong><a href="https://openlife.ng/">OpenLife Nigeria</a></strong> reports that a federal appeals court in Manhattan has upheld singer R. Kelly’s racketeering and sex trafficking convictions and his 30-year prison sentence.</p>
<p>Kelly was sentenced in 2022 to more than 30 years in prison for sexually abusing fans — some of them children — racketeering, and sex trafficking.</p>
<p>The 2nd US circuit court of appeals which ruled on Wednesday after hearing arguments last March, concluded that the 58-year-old used his fame to exploit and sexually abuse girls and young women.</p>
<p>The three-judge panel also rejected Kelly’s claim that prosecutors did not prove he orchestrated a racketeering scheme to recruit women and underage girls for sex.</p>
<p>“Enabled by a constellation of managers, assistants, and other staff for over twenty-five years, <a href="https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/">Kelly</a> exploited his fame to lure girls and young women into his grasp,” they said.</p>
<p>“Evidence at trial showed that he would isolate them from friends and family, control nearly every aspect of their lives, and abuse them verbally, physically, and sexually.”</p>
<p>Jennifer Bonjean, Kelly’s legal representative, in a statement, said she believed that the supreme court would agree to hear an appeal.</p>
<p>She also criticised the court’s ruling, describing it as “unprecedented”, while referencing a partial dissent by Richard J. Sullivan, a judge.</p>
<p>“This was not restitution. This was an effort by the government to unfairly enrich government witnesses for their testimony,” she said.</p>
<p>In 2024, a high court also declined to hear the singer’s appeal on a 20-year sentence handed to him for charges of producing images of child sexual abuse in Chicago.</p>
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