Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said her office should focus its resources on other cases in Cook County — specifically on hundreds of pending cases of sexual assault and domestic violence. “I believe that justice has been served,” she said.
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Monday it is dropping charges against R. Kelly, nearly four years after they were first filed.
Cook County’s case was the first in a wave of criminal charges against Kelly. He was convicted on federal charges in New York of racketeering and sex trafficking and was sentenced last year to 30 years in prison. He also has been convicted in Chicago federal court on child pornography charges. He is scheduled to be sentenced in that case next month and faces 10 to 90 years in prison. Kelly also faces sex-related charges in Minnesota.
“The work that those victims did in coming forward has allowed for someone who has been deemed a sexual predator in a court of law to now be serving sentences for his actions,” Foxx said.One alleged survivor who was involved in the county’s case said that with this news “all hope of justice for [her] case is gone.”
“Over the past several weeks, after I came to learn that the State’s Attorney’s Office was considering dismissing these cases, I pleaded with Kim Foxx and her team to see the cases through,” Carter said in the statement. “Justice has been denied for me a second time, making today’s decision that much more difficult to comprehend and accept.”
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