From the NY Daily News, where you can read the full story:

R&B singer R. Kelly was lambasted Wednesday as a “disgusting” child abuser who taught victims that “love is enslavement and violence” before being sentenced to 30 years in prison for a sex abuse scheme targeting his young fans.

The decades-long sentence in Brooklyn Federal Court capped the precipitous downfall of the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer, a self-described “musical genius” who sold more than 75 million records and won three Grammy awards. Kelly, 55, is now a convicted sex offender who claims he’s broke.

Judge Ann Donnelly told Kelly he mercilessly ruined the lives of the countless victims he serially raped, abused, and isolated “with regularity for almost 25 years.”

“This case is not about sex. It’s about violence and cruelty and control,” Donnelly told Kelly.

“These victims were disposable to you. You taught them that love is enslavement and violence and humiliation.”

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