Category Archive for : ‘MUSICIAN’

By: News 12

R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse.

The singer and songwriter, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had once wondered if their stories were being ignored because they were Black women.

U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly imposed the sentence after hearing from several survivors who attested to how Kelly’s exploitation reverberated across their lives.

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By Lorraine Taylor

Federal prosecutors say embattled R&B star R. Kelly should spend at least 25 years in jail for sexually abusing women and girls.

The recommendation comes after a New York City jury found the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer guilty of racketeering, including acts of bribery and sexual exploitation of a child, and other counts at a sex-trafficking trial last year.

Kelly, 55, is set to be sentenced on June 29. Prosecutors allege Kelly was operating what amounted to a criminal enterprise because his entourage of managers and aides would

February 25, 2021
Melissa Roberto
Fox News

Peter Yarrow of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary has been accused in a new lawsuit of raping an underage girl in his hotel room in 1969.

A woman named Deborah Martin filed a complaint against Yarrow, 82, and the musical trio’s employer, in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday under the state’s Child Victims Act.

In the complaint obtained by Fox News, Yarrow is accused of sexual abuse of a child, negligence, assault, battery, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It

Timothy Baker, a 54 year old violinist from New York, has been accused of donning a fake moustache and going to a Texas hotel to have sex with a 16 year old girl he met a music camp last summer. He was arraigned on two counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child and released from the Randall County Jail after posting $100,000 bond. He allegedly traveled to Amarillo and met the girl’s parents. The parents became suspicious after learning Baker had apparently

Tod Salvador, aka Tripp Eisen, 39 year old axeman with the band Static-X, was charged Friday with aggravated sexual assault, child endangerment and kidnapping.  Cops what to know if the heavy metal guitarist accused of sexually assaulting a 14 year old New Jersey teen targeted other girls online.  Cops say he met the girl in October and had sex with her in a truck in Old Bridge in January.  He was arrested February 10 in California after cops found him sleeping in a parked car with an underage girl.

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Eric Franklin Rosser, a 48-year-old American keyboard player who ran a music school for childrenin Bangkok, is wanted for numerous offenses including the production of a videotape in Thailandthat depicts him having sex with an 11-year-old girl. For the first time, the FBI placed a childpornography suspect on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list yesterday. The FBI is offering up to$50,000 for information leading to his arrest. Thai authorities arrested him February 9 on chargesof lewd behavior and possession of pornographic materials after police raided his apartment andfound hundreds of