The rapper Sean combs, known as Diddy, was this Friday sentenced in New York to 50 months in prison – around four years and two months – for two transport positions to exercise prostitution, and a fine of 500,000 dollars.
Combs, 55, was acquitted last July of the most serious crimes that were imputed to him, for organized crime and sex trafficking, which could have carried a maximum perpetual chain penalty.
The rapper barely reacted to the sentence – which also includes five years of supervised freedom – although he fuck his head and remained impassive while the federal judge who has taken the case, Arun Subramanian, justified his decision.
The magistrate told ComBs that, although he takes into account that he is an “influential” person and an “artist made to himself” with an impact on the African -American community, it cannot be ignored that he used his power to “physically and psychologically” abuse women.
Subramanian added that a large part of the physical violence that combs exercised against her then girlfriends, singer Cassie Ventura and a woman who testified under Jane’s generic pseudonym, was related to sexual marathons or “freak offs” that orchestrated the rapper between prostitutes and his now ex -partners.
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“We have read (about this violence) and we have seen images of bruises and other wounds, and even a video in which it brutally hits Ventura,” the judge told combs.
Therefore, the sentence should adapt to the “gravity” of the crimes committed and the effect they had on the victims, especially in Ventura and Jane, who came to contemplate suicide.
Subramanian also stressed that, despite the promise of combs that he has changed, the musician continued to mistreat Jane and participating with her in “Freak offs” even after Ventura filed a civil lawsuit against him and the government began the investigation that led him to impute the artist of sexual trafficking and other crimes.
Forgiveness to the victims and their family
Before making his sentence known, Comps took the floor before the court and, making long pauses to breathe, apologized to Cassie Ventura and Jane “for any emotional or physical damage” that could cause them.
He also apologized to his family, who was among the public attending the audience, and “all victims of gender violence” who have seen the viral video in which he appears brutally hitting Ventura in the hall of a hotel in Los Angeles.
“My actions were horrible and shameful. I was sick from drugs. I needed help but I never asked for it. Anyway, that is not an excuse, because I knew how to do it better, because my mother and faith had taught me to be better,” Comong said during his speech.
The musician said to regret that his actions have led him to lose his freedom, his business, to be able to educate his children and his reputation, but, above all, the “respect” towards himself.
“Right now, I hate myself. I apologize to my seven children and my mother. They deserve something better,” said the rapper looking directly at their relatives among the public and unable to contain tears.
The penalty issued by Subramanian is greater than that requested by their lawyers (only 14 months in prison), but the artist has been held in a New York Criminal Center that counts as part of the sentence.
During today’s hearing, both his defense and six of his children asked the judge to grant combs “a second chance”, and in particular his legal team pointed out that he has already been “punished” by the public.
Subramanian assured him that he and his family “will overcome this”: “There is light at the end of the tunnel.”
The judge also ordered to confiscate the “used to facilitate” assets to carry out transport crimes to exercise prostitution.
With EFE information.
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