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The 56-year-old disgraced RnB singer will serve the new two-decade sentence simultaneously with his previous sentence of 30 years in prison on racketeering charges.

R Kelly receives new jail sentence for production of child abuse imagery

R. Kelly was sentenced by a judge for child pornography and enticement of minors for sex charges in a Chicago federal court.

R&B superstar R. Kelly’s musical accomplishments have long been shadowed by allegations that he sexually abused women and children

A federal judge sentenced R. Kelly to 20 years for his Chicago convictions of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex on Thursday morning. 

A federal judge will sentence R. Kelly for his Chicago convictions of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex on Thursday, when the 56-year-old singer will learn if he must spend the rest of his life behind bars or if he will have some hope of getting out.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a call from prosecutors to keep R. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer he would serve all but one of his 20 years on child sex convictions simultaneously with a previous sentence.

R&B superstar R. Kellys musical accomplishments have long been shadowed by allegations that he sexually abused women and children. The singer is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in his hometown of Chicago after he was found guilty in September of child pornography and child enticement.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a call from prosecutors to keep R. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer he would serve all but one of his 20 years on child sex convictions simultaneously with a previous sentence.

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a call from prosecutors to keep R. Kelly behind bars until he is 100, instead telling the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer he would serve all but one of his 20 years on child sex convictions simultaneously with a previous sentence.