Kim Foxx, the state’s attorney for Chicago County, declared on Monday that she will not pursue charges of sex abuse against R&B singer R. Kelly.
The disclosure was made before to a hearing on state allegations that Kelly had sexually assaulted four persons, three of whom were minors. On Tuesday, Foxx will seek a court to throw out the charges.
As a result of the crimes Kelly committed, he “may never walk out of prison again,” according to Foxx, who was referring to Kelly’s federal convictions in two courts, which guarantee the R&B star will spend decades behind bars.
Even though the instances of today are no longer being investigated, we think justice has been done.
In connection with claims that he victimized women and girls, Kelly has been found guilty in Chicago and New York of a variety of offences, including child pornography, inducement, racketeering, and sex trafficking.
He is now serving a 30-year jail term in the New York case and will be sentenced on February 23 in federal court in Chicago.
Even though Kelly is contesting the convictions, he won’t be eligible for release until he is about 80 years old just solely on the New York sentence.
Foxx claimed that she spoke to the women whose claims were at the centre of the case as well as Kelly’s attorney two weeks prior to suggesting that charges might be dropped.
She commended them for having the “courage to come forward.” He only has one life to give,” Jennifer Bonjean, Kelly’s attorney, stated in reference to the decision to dismiss the charges. I’m not sure how many sentences on sentences would be sufficient to please them.
One of Kelly’s accusers, Lanita Carter, who said she was sexually attacked by him in February 2003, was disappointed by the information. “I had hoped for almost 20 years that my attacker will be punished for what he did to me.
Any hope of justice in my case has been destroyed by today’s revelation, said Carter, who went on to say that she had confided in Foxx and her office with regard to the details of her case and had prepared for Kelly for four years in vain. She said, “Justice has been withheld from me.
We didn’t conduct a financial cost-benefit analysis, according to Foxx, who also noted that the funds allocated to a trial right now may be utilized “in advocacy for other survivors of sexual abuse.”
Although Kelly is also charged with soliciting in Hennepin County, Minnesota, the case has been put on hold while the federal cases are resolved. Prosecutors in Minnesota have not said if they still intend to prosecute Kelly.
Robert Sylvester Kelly, better known for his famous song “I Believe I Can Fly,” is also well recognized for his sexy tunes like “Bump n’ Grind.” Kelly sold millions of albums in the 1990s despite claims that she had abused underage girls. In Chicago, he was cleared of child pornography charges in 2008 when a jury found him not guilty.
But, it wasn’t until the #MeToo movement and the early 2019 publication of the Lifetime documentary “Surviving R. Kelly” that broad outrage over Kelly’s sexual misconduct became apparent.
At his trial in 2021, federal prosecutors in New York informed the jury that Kelly had a team of managers and assistants that he employed to meet females and maintain their subservience. According to the prosecutors, this operation amounted to a criminal enterprise.
At Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago last year, the prosecution painted him as a master manipulator who drew in star-struck admirers, some of whom were juveniles, to sexually assault before discarding them.