As his time behind bars nears the three-year mark, R. Kelly is in store for another day of reckoning, one that could determine whether he will ever walk free again.
has asked for the mandatory minimum 10-year prison termAttorney Jennifer Bonjean, who took over as Kelly’s counsel after his conviction, told the Tribune she filed the document under seal because it contained sensitive information about Kelly’s past — including sexual abuse he allegedly endured as a child — as well as details that could “implicate others” in wrongdoing. More details are expected to be revealed in court this week.
Regardless of the outcome, the legal woes for the Grammy-winning singer, whose hits include 1996′s “I Believe I Can Fly,” will not be over even with his sentencing.Kelly also faces a pending trial in August in Chicago’s federal courthouse, where prosecutors allege he and two others fixed his 2008 trial in Cook County and paid people to buy back incriminating sex tapes.
Steve Greenberg, one of Kelly’s lawyers, said he hopes the sentencing judge will consider that “someone who has been so severely sexually abused as a child will often become an abuser themselves.” Kelly is a sex addict, Greenberg said, not a pedophile who is pathologically inclined to abuse children.
Kelly has a long history of sexual abuse by a sister and a family friend, Bonjean told the Tribune last week. He grew up poor, in a household that experienced domestic violence; he also witnessed the death of a close childhood friend, Bonjean said. He reads at an early elementary school level, which has made it easy for people around him to manipulate and exploit him, she said.
R. Kelly stands before the judge during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court building, Sept. 17, 2019, in Chicago. Kelly suffered a serious concussion that left him with headaches and pain for months afterward, his attorneys said.that unsealed court records revealed a Bureau of Prisons official in Wisconsin was under investigation for allegedly accessing Kelly’s recorded phone calls and emails at the MCC. The official apparently leaked them to a popular YouTube personality, who racked up hundreds of thousands of views touting her inside scoops on Kelly’s life in lockup.
It’s expected to be a far different scene when Kelly’s trial begins Aug. 15 at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, however. Despite decades of allegations of sexual misconduct, Kelly has maintained a robust fan base in his hometown, and a much larger contingent of supporters is likely to converge on Chicago’s Loop to get a glimpse of the action.
Among the allegations Kelly was convicted of in New York was grooming Jerhonda Johnson Pace, an underage “superfan” who caught the singer’s eye as she attended his trial at the Leighton Criminal Court Building at 26th and California.
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