06-30-2022, 01:10 AM
Two perverts have been sentenced to a total of fifty years for messing with children. First, R. Kelly:
NEW YORK — R. Kelly’s federal case in Brooklyn, New York, came to a close Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly sentenced the R&B singer to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine after being convicted of racketeering and charges related to sex trafficking.
Before Donnelly announced the sentencing, victim witnesses Angela, Addie, Lizzette Martinez, Stephanie, Kitti Jones, Faith Rodgers and Sonja stood before the court’s podium to state their remarks. Several broke into tears during their speeches.
Angela, who witnessed Kelly sexual assault R&B singer Aaliyah and was also sexually assaulted herself in the early ’90s, read her statement directly to Kelly.
“We are no longer the preyed upon individuals that we once were,” she told him. “I am a representation of every woman, boy, child, man that you have ever afflicted with your deplorable, despicable acts. And with that I leave you with yourself, Robert Sylvester Kelly.”
Stephanie, during her searing speech, said she experienced a “suffocating fear” when she was being abused and whenever she saw or heard the singer in the media.
“You are an abuser. You are shameless. You are disgusting. You are self-serving,” she told Kelly in front of the court. “I hope you go to jail for the rest of your life... Now it’s your turn to have your freedom taken from you and it still won’t be an ounce of the freedom you took away from your victims.”
Kelly declined to address the court due to his other upcoming criminal cases.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/r-kelly-sentenced-prison-racketeering-sex-trafficking_n_62bb7bbfe4b0adb8aa4dad11
Ghislaine Maxwell gets "only" twenty years for supplying underage children to prominent people in the USA and Britain, but remember that she is 60, that imprisonment for the elderly is rougher than is so for someone still young enough to get out before retirement, and twenty years (she already has significant time served) is close to a life sentence. She is also from the privileged elite, which means that any prison term will be grievous hardship. I'm shedding tears about this -- crocodile tears. From Wikipedia:
Parole is granted only very late in a federal prison term, and it is far from certain. I would not be surprised if her stuff is already being dispersed in auctions. She won't need any of that in a nursing home.
NEW YORK — R. Kelly’s federal case in Brooklyn, New York, came to a close Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly sentenced the R&B singer to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine after being convicted of racketeering and charges related to sex trafficking.
Before Donnelly announced the sentencing, victim witnesses Angela, Addie, Lizzette Martinez, Stephanie, Kitti Jones, Faith Rodgers and Sonja stood before the court’s podium to state their remarks. Several broke into tears during their speeches.
Angela, who witnessed Kelly sexual assault R&B singer Aaliyah and was also sexually assaulted herself in the early ’90s, read her statement directly to Kelly.
“We are no longer the preyed upon individuals that we once were,” she told him. “I am a representation of every woman, boy, child, man that you have ever afflicted with your deplorable, despicable acts. And with that I leave you with yourself, Robert Sylvester Kelly.”
Stephanie, during her searing speech, said she experienced a “suffocating fear” when she was being abused and whenever she saw or heard the singer in the media.
“You are an abuser. You are shameless. You are disgusting. You are self-serving,” she told Kelly in front of the court. “I hope you go to jail for the rest of your life... Now it’s your turn to have your freedom taken from you and it still won’t be an ounce of the freedom you took away from your victims.”
Kelly declined to address the court due to his other upcoming criminal cases.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/r-kelly-sentenced-prison-racketeering-sex-trafficking_n_62bb7bbfe4b0adb8aa4dad11
Ghislaine Maxwell gets "only" twenty years for supplying underage children to prominent people in the USA and Britain, but remember that she is 60, that imprisonment for the elderly is rougher than is so for someone still young enough to get out before retirement, and twenty years (she already has significant time served) is close to a life sentence. She is also from the privileged elite, which means that any prison term will be grievous hardship. I'm shedding tears about this -- crocodile tears. From Wikipedia:
Quote: On 29 December 2021, Maxwell was found guilty and convicted by a jury in US federal court on five sex trafficking-related counts carrying a potential custodial sentence of up to 65 years' imprisonment: one of sex trafficking of a minor (maximum: 40 years), one of transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity (10 years) and three of conspiracy to commit choate felonies (15 years total).[142][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell#cite_note-152][/url]
Maxwell was acquitted on the charge of enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.[2][3][4] Her family said the appeal process had begun.[143][144]
The only witness to use her real name during her testimony, Annie Farmer, spoke out after the trial saying, "I hope that this verdict brings solace to all who need it... Even those with great power and privilege will be held accountable when they sexually abuse and exploit the young."[145]
A retrial was sought on the grounds that a juror did not disclose during jury selection that he had been sexually abused as a child. He had shared a narrative of that abuse with other jurors during the proceedings.[146][147] On 1 April 2022, the judge found that the juror's failure to disclose his abuse as a child did not warrant a new trial and dismissed Maxwell's request to set aside the verdict.[148]
On 28 June 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.[149][150] She complained of threats coming from jail staff in the days prior to sentencing, but gave no details about the nature of the threats. Although she was placed on suicide watch, she told the psychiatric team that she was not suicidal. A related request by her lawyers for a sentencing delay was denied.[151] Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of at least 30 years.[152]
Parole is granted only very late in a federal prison term, and it is far from certain. I would not be surprised if her stuff is already being dispersed in auctions. She won't need any of that in a nursing home.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.