Kaalan Walker, beforehand identified by his rapper title KR, has reportedly been sentenced to spend the subsequent 5 many years behind bars for raping a number of girls and teenage women.
The disgraced rapper-actor appeared in court docket on Monday (Oct. 17), the place a choose ordered him to be sentenced to 50 years in jail, experiences the Los Angeles Instances. The ruling comes six months after the entertainer was convicted by a jury of sexually assaulting 4 girls and three teenage women. KR was discovered responsible of three counts of forcible rape, two counts of statutory rape and two counts of rape by intoxication. He was acquitted of three different rape fees.
KR, who had a task within the 2018 Superlfy remake, was initially arrested on Sept. 11, 2018, following a number of rape allegations. He was launched and arrested once more on Sept. 26, 2018. He was arraigned that October and charged with 9 counts of sexual assault.
“In every of the instances, aspiring fashions had been contacted by Walker by way of social media with the premise of being employed to work professionally,” the Los Angeles Police Division mentioned in a press release on the time of KR’s arraignment in 2018. “Whereas alone, every of the victims reported that Walker sexually assaulted them.”
Following his trial and conviction in April, KR’s legal professional Andrew Flier instructed XXL his shopper is harmless and so they plan to enchantment the ruling.
“Mr. Walker adamantly maintains his full innocence,” the assertion learn. “He didn’t obtain a good trial because the jury didn’t hear many materials points and information because of being excluded improperly by the Court docket. There have been 25 fees initially and 17 together with dismissals and never guilties are gone. [Three] of the primary girls had been discovered not responsible. This case can be overturned on enchantment.”
XXL has reached out to the Los Angeles County district legal professional’s workplace and Walker’s legal professional for remark.
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