Victims of R. Kelly spoke out in court on Wednesday ahead of his sentencing, accusing the disgraced R&B singer of committing “deplorable, inexplicable acts” and destroying “so many people’s lives” while also demanding that the court has “your freedom taken from you.”
The 55-year-old bore witness to seven different impact statements from some of his victims while awaiting his sentencing in Brooklyn federal court. After a six-week trial last year, Kelly — born Robert Sylvester Kelly — was found guilty in September 2021 of all nine counts against him and charged with racketeering and violating the Mann Act, an anti-sex trafficking law.
