Nicki Minaj’s Husband Faces 10 Years in Prison After Failing to Register as a Sex Offender

Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, has pleaded responsible to failure to register as a intercourse offender and faces as much as ten years in jail.

Petty entered his plea on Thursday, Sept. 9, throughout a digital listening to in federal court docket in Los Angeles, in keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by People.

The 43-year-old is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 24, 2022. He faces anyplace from probation to 10 years in federal jail. He can even be supervised for the remainder of his life.

The cost stems from Petty’s failure to register as a intercourse offender when he moved from New York to California in 2019.

He was arrested following a site visitors cease in Beverly Hills in November 2019. When police ran a examine, they discovered he had moved to California with out complying with the intercourse offender registry, in keeping with NBC News. Petty posted $20,000 bail, however was arrested once more in reference to the case. In March 2020, following his second arrest he pleaded not responsible and posted $100,000 bail.

Petty was convicted in New York in 1995, for the tried rape of a 16-year-old lady. He was sentenced to 18 months to 54 Months in state jail, in keeping with the New York’s Felony Justice Providers website. He served 4 and a half years in jail. As a situation of his conviction, he was required to register as a intercourse offender.

Minaj and Petty had been married in October 2019. The two welcomed their first baby collectively in September 2020.