R Kelly's attorneys say the R&B singer plans to appeal his 30-year prison sentence.
Nine months after a Brooklyn jury found R Kelly guilty on all nine counts in his sex trafficking case in federal court, the singer was sentenced on Wednesday.
The charges – involving six female victims, including the late singer Aaliyah (who married R Kelly in 1994 when she was 15 years old) – included racketeering, bribery, coercion, enticement and sex trafficking. The accusations against him span from at least 1992 to 2017.
Dressed in prison khakis and dark glasses, Kelly declined to make a statement of his own and did not react as the verdict was handed down.
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