At a 90-minute hearing, Judge Harry Leinenweber of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago also ordered Kelly to serve 19 years simultaneously with the previous sentence, a local CBS affiliate and other media reported.
In September, Kelly – whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly – was convicted in federal court of felony sexual exploitation of a child, enticement of a female, and possession of material containing child pornography.
“The nature of this offense is horrible, horrific,” Leinenweber said before handing down the sentence, CBS reported.
Kelly, along with two of his associates, were found not guilty of obstructing a 2008 state pornography case that ended with his acquittal.
During the five-week trial, several women took the stand and told jurors that Kelly sexually abused them when they were minors. The jury also saw a video of Kelly molesting his goddaughter, who testified that the abuse began in the 1990s when…
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