• R. Kelly Pleaded Guilty to Racketeering and Sex Trafficking

The American singer

R. Kelly

was sentenced this Wednesday in

New York

to 30 years in prison for organized crime and sexual abuse and trafficking, nine months after he was found guilty in a process that lasted six weeks and in which dozens of people testified against him.

The R&B star of the 1990s, whose full name is

Robert Sylvester Kelly

, and who is now 55 years old, listened to the testimonies of seven women, many of them in tears, who once again recalled in front of the singer the suffering and the consequences of the abuses to which he subjected them, local media reported.

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