An yanke wa mawakin Amurka R. Kelly hukuncin daurin shekaru 30 a gidan yari saboda amfani da matsayinsa na shahara wajen lalata da yara da mata.
Mawakin R&B, mai shekaru 55, an same shi da laifi a watan Satumbar da ya gabata a New York da laifin yin lalata da laifukan safarar jima’i.
Ya fuskanci zarge-zarge na tsawon shekaru kuma alkali a ranar Laraba ya ce yana da “bashi da bambanci ga wahalar da mutane”.
Lauyan mawakin, wanda ainihin sunansa Robert Sylvester Kelly, ya ce zai daukaka kara.
Gabanin yanke masa hukunci, wasu tsirarun mata sun tsaya tsayin daka don fuskantar Kelly.
Wata mata da aka bayyana sunanta Angela ta kira mawakin Pied Piper wanda “ya girma cikin mugunta” tare da duk wani sabon mutum da aka azabtar, yayin da wasu da ba a bayyana sunayensu ba sun shaida cewa ya karya musu rai.
“A gaskiya na yi fatan mutuwa saboda yadda ka sa na ji,” in ji mutum daya.
Sanye da khaki na gidan yari da gilashin mai duhu, Kelly ya ƙi yin wata sanarwa da kansa kuma bai mayar da martani ba yayin da aka yanke hukuncin.
Kelly yana tsare tun lokacin da masu gabatar da kara na tarayya suka tuhume shi a New York da Chicago a watan Yuli 2019.
Shekaru uku da ya yi a gidan yari sun kasance masu ban mamaki, ciki har da duka daga wani fursuna a cikin 2020 da kuma fada da Covid-19 a farkon wannan shekara.
Mawakin na fuskantar kara shari’a a cikin watan Agusta, lokacin da aka sake gurfanar da shi a gaban shari’a, a wannan karon a Chicago kan hotunan jima’i na yara da kuma tuhume-tuhume.
Har ila yau ana sa ran zai fuskanci tuhume-tuhumen cin zarafin mata a kotuna a Illinois da Minnesota.
Daga: Firdausi Musa Dantsoho