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Matt Watts

R Kelly to serve just extra year in prison for convictions for child pornography and enticing minors for sex

R Kelly is to serve just one additional year in prison for child pornography and enticement of minors for sex after completing his 30-year racketeering sentence.

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday handed the disgraced singer a 20-year prison sentence for the convictions but said he will serve nearly all of the sentence simultaneously with the 30-year jail term imposed last year in New York on racketeering charges.

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