{"id":3367,"date":"2022-06-30T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.topic.lk\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:14:06","slug":"r-kelly-given-30-years-in-jail-for-sex-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/3367\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly given 30 years in jail for sex abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US singer R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his celebrity status to sexually abuse children and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The R&amp;B artist, 55, was convicted last September in New York of racketeering and sex trafficking crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had faced years of allegations and the judge on Wednesday said he had an &#8220;indifference to human suffering&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawyers for the singer, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, say he will appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of his sentencing, a handful of women took the stand to confront Kelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A woman identified only as Angela called the singer a Pied Piper who &#8220;grew in wickedness&#8221; with every new victim, while others who were not named testified he had broken their spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US singer R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his celebrity status to sexually abuse children and women. The R&amp;B artist, 55, was convicted last September in New York of racketeering and sex trafficking crimes. He had faced years of allegations and the judge on Wednesday said he had an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-other"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}