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"I'm grateful that Robert Sylvester Kelly is away and will stay away and will not be able to harm anyone else", says Lizzette Martinez, a victim of R. Kelly after the disgraced R&B singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison for leading a decades-long effort to recruit and trap teenagers and women for sex. SOUNDBITE
Two women claiming to be R. Kelly's sisters, victims' attorney Gloria Allred, R. Kelly's attorney Jennifer Bonjean and prosecutors arrive at a federal court in New York, as the US singer faces sentencing over a sex crimes case. Prosecutors urge the court to put the artist behind bars for at least 25 years. IMAGES
Scenes outside of R&B superstar R. Kelly’s studio as his lawyers say he is going to turn himself in. The 52-year-old singer was charged in Chicago with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sex abuse against four victims, three of them minors. IMAGES
Christian Brueckner, the German man suspected of abducting missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, appears in public for the first time since being named in her case, arriving at a court in Braunschweig for the start of his trial on unrelated sex crime charges. German prosecutors have yet to charge Brueckner over Madeleine's disappearance, but in October 2022 he was charged with five separate counts of rape and child sex abuse allegedly committed in Portugal, where Madeleine disappeared, between 2000 and 2017. IMAGES
US actor Kevin Spacey leaving London's Southwark Crown Court during his trial for sexual assault concerning four men. The jury began deliberating on Monday in the two-time Oscar winner's trial that began last month. The alleged assaults occurred between 2001 and 2013. Spacey denies all counts. IMAGES