Troubled American R&B singer Robert Kelly popularly known in music circles as R Kelly has been ordered to pay his s3x abuse victims over $300,000 in restitution.
The order was issued on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Ann Connelly who ruled that R Kelly should pay the said sum to one of his victims in a decades-long scheme to use his fame to s3xually abuse naïve young fans.
A restitution order by the federal judge that was still being finalized is meant to cover the cost of treatment for herpes and psychotherapy. The victim, referred to only by a pseudonym, Jane, has accused the jailed R Kelly of giving her the s3xually transmitted disease during one of their encounters.
The popular R&B singer, whose lawyer claims he only has 28,000 dollars in his account, could also pay tens of thousands of dollars more for herpes treatment and counseling for a second victim once the final tally is calculated.
R Kelly has been convicted of six of the 13 charges brought against him in his s3x trafficking trial.
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The R&B singer was convicted by the 12-person jury in the trial of six out of the 13 charges brought against him during court proceedings on Wednesday, September 14, 2022.
R Kelly, 55, was found guilty of s3x crimes, including producing child s3xual abuse imagery and coercing no fewer than three minors into s3x acts and producing three child s3xual abuse videos.
The convicted musician has already been sentenced to 30 years in prison in June 2022 after a jury in Brooklyn convicted him of racketeering and s3x trafficking charges and based on that sentence, he won’t be eligible for release until he is around 80.
