WHO ARE!

THEY ARE YEAR-LONG FOR THE FREEDOM AGAINST RUSSIA.

WE ALSO HEAR FROM SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE PRESUMABLY FOR REFUGEES HERE IN CHICAGO.

WE'LL HAVE THAT AND MUCH MORE, BUT FIRST I SEND IT BACK TO YOU.

>>> THANKS, JOANNA.

AND NOW TO OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT.

FEDERAL JUDGE IN CHICAGO SENTENCES R. KELLY TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON FOR CONVICTIONS ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND ENTICEMENT.

HOWEVER, ALL BUT ONE OF THOSE YEARS WILL BE SERVED CONCURRENTLY WITH KELLY'S EXISTING NEW YORK SENTENCE.

WTTW NEWS REPORTED MATT MASTERSON JOINS US NOW TO BREAK IT ALL DOWN.

SO, MATT, EXPLAINED THIS SENTENCE TO US.

IS IT WAS THE PROSECUTORS HAVE THOUGHT?

>> IT'S DEFINITELY WHAT PROSECUTION WANTED IN THIS CASE.

THEY HAD SOUGHT AN ADDITIONAL 25 YEARS IN PRISON FOR R. KELLY ON TOP OF THE 30 YEARS THAT HE'S ALREADY GOTTEN IN RACKETEERING AND TRAFFICKING CASES, AND, AS YOU SAID, HE'LL ONLY SERVE ONE ADDITIONAL YEAR ON TOP OF THAT 30 YEAR SENTENCE THAT HE ALREADY GOT.

SO WHY NOT MORE TIME IN THE CASE TODAY?

JUDGE HARRY R. KELLY CITED KELLY'S AGE WITH WHEN HE'LL GET OUT, HIS OWN SEXUAL ABUSE WHEN HE WAS A CHILD, AND HIS UNLIKELIHOOD TO REOFFEND IF AND WHEN HE DOES GET OUT OF PRISON AFTER THE SENTENCE IS SERVED.

>> SO IF THIS IS THE STAND, IT LOOKS LIKE HE COULD GET OUT AT SOME POINT BEFORE THE END OF HIS LIFE, AND STATES ATTORNEY KIM FOXX DROPPED THE CHARGE, SAYING HE WILL DEFINITELY BE IMPRESSING THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT COULD BE THE CASE, SO WHAT WAS THE REACTION THAT YOU HEARD AFTER THE SENTENCING?

>> PROSECUTORS ARE OBVIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED WITH THE LACK OF THE ADDITIONAL CONSECUTIVE TIME, BUT THEY SAID THAT THIS 20 YEAR SENTENCE WHAT HE GOT DOES HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE YEARS OF ABUSE THAT HE DID A LEASE ON THESE VICTIMS.

KELLY'S SUPPORTERS AND FAMILY WERE IN COURT.

THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY MUCH MORE PLEASE.

THERE WERE SOME CHEERS FROM THE COURTROOM AFTER THE HEARING.

JENNIFER BOTHAM JEAN, KELLY'S DEFENSE ATTORNEY, SHE CALLED THIS A WIN FOR HER A CLIENT, ALTHOUGH SHE DID NOTE THAT IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT HE DOES NEVER WALK OUT OF PRISON ALIVE AFTER THE SENTENCE.

>> DID, DID ANY OF THE VICTIMS SPEAK AT THE HEARING HERE, AND DID KELLY SPEAK ITSELF?

>> KELLY DID NOT SPEAK.

HE STILL HAS ONE MORE CASE PENDING IN MINNESOTA, SO HE WAS ADVISED BY HIS ATTORNEY NOT TO SAY ANYTHING, BUT WE DID HEAR FROM THREE OF KELLY'S VICTIMS IN THIS CASE, TWO OF WHICH SPOKE IN PERSON AND ONE SPOKE THROUGH HER ATTORNEY.

ONE OF THOSE WAS JANE, KELLY'S GODDAUGHTER, WHO WAS SEEN IN THE ILLICIT SEX TAPES THAT WERE SHOWN IN COURT, IN HER OWN VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT, SHE SAID IT'S CLEAR ROBERT KELLY IS NO SAINT.

DOES ANYONE REALLY BELIEVE ROBERT IS NOT IN US SEX TAPES?

DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO ME IS OKAY?

THESE VICTIMS ALL ASKED THE JUDGE TO SENTENCE KELLY TO A TERM THAT WOULD PREVENT HIM FROM EVER GETTING OUT ALIVE.

>> AND AS WE MENTIONED, WE HAD COOK COUNTY STATES ATTORNEY KIM FOXX ON YOUR EXPLAINED WHY SHE DROPPED THE CHARGES, SAYING AGAIN, GIVEN ALL THESE CASES, THERE'S A CASE IN MINNESOTA AND STATES COURT THERE STILL SPENDING.

HE LIKELY SPENT THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON SAID SO DID FOXX SAY ANYTHING ABOUT MAYBE RECONSIDERING THAT?

>> IT IS UNLIKELY THAT ANYTHING'S GOING TO BE RECONSIDERED.

SHE HAD SAID PREVIOUSLY IN THIS CASE THAT JUSTICE HAD BEEN SERVED WITH THIS 30 YEAR SENTENCE THAT KELLY GOT OUT IN NEW YORK, AND SHE KNEW GOING INTO TODAY THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT KELLY GOT EITHER VERY LITTLE TIME OR NO TIME AT ALL, SO THE FACT THAT HE GOT ONE MORE YEAR PROBABLY DOESN'T CHANGE THE CALCULUS FOR HER ON THEIR OWN CASE.

SHE DID ISSUE A STATEMENT TODAY REITERATING HER PREVIOUS POINT