American female Rapper, Nicki Minaj’s brother Jelani Maraj was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for child rape.
Jelani who was handed his jail sentence by Judge Robert McDonald in a New York court on Monday January 25, was found guilty of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a child.
Though Nicki Minaj’s brother repeatedly denied the allegations, claiming the story was concocted to extort his famous younger sister, his stepdaughter took the stand in a 2017 trial to narrate how he raped her in their Baldwin home while he was married to her mother.
He was sentenced to 25 years in prison, two years after a jury handed down the guilty verdict for the sexual abuse which began in 2015
Throughout the entire ordeal, Nicki Minaj has refrained commenting on her brother’s court proceedings, though it has been reported that she foot the bill for his lawyers.
