Kenneth Petty, 44, was also ordered to pay a $55,000 fine as part of his sentence, which includes three years of probation and one year of house arrest, CBS News reports, based on the filing by the US Attorney’s Office . Petty last year pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender in the state of California, withdrawing his initial plea of not guilty. Earlier in 2019, he was charged after he was arrested during a traffic stop in Beverly Hills when police discovered he had not registered as a sex offender in the state when he moved there from New York three years earlier. As previously reported, Petty registered with the California Megan’s Law database in March 2020, which tracks local sex offenders in California. Although charges were dropped by the Los Angeles district attorney’s office, he faced federal charges from the Department of Justice for failing to promptly register, a requirement under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 2006 (SORNA). Petty is classified as a Level 2 sex offender by the New York State Department, which considers him to have a moderate risk of recidivism, after he was convicted of attempted first-degree rape in 1994, more than two decades before he married Minaj. . Last year, Jennifer Hough, who was the 16-year-old girl Petty tried to rape, filed a lawsuit against Minaj and Petty, accusing the pair of “witness intimidation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, harassment, assault, battery, sexual assault and sexual harassment.” Petty and Minaj moved to California after getting married in 2019 and have a son together.
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Check out the latest videos, charts and news Check out the latest videos, charts and news Minaj stood by her husband. Under an Instagram post in 2018, he clapped back at those who continued to criticize Petty’s criminal past. “He was 15, she was 16… in a relationship. But slowly the Internet,” he wrote. And on a 2019 episode of Minaj’s Queen Radio show on Apple Music, she told her fans: “You need to cover your husband in prayer” before saying she was wrongly accused.
