Washington [US]: Nicki Minaj’s significant other, Kenneth Petty was condemned to probation and home confinement on Wednesday, July 6, in Los Angeles for failing to register as a sex offender.
Billboard expressed that as per a recording from the US Attorney’s Office, Kenneth Petty was likewise requested to pay a $55,000 fine as a feature of his sentence, which additionally included three years of probation and a time of in-home detainment. Beforehand, he was charged in 2019 following his capture at a traffic stop in Beverly Hills, when police found he had not enrolled as a sex offender in the state when he moved there three years prior from New York.
Petty, as previously reported, registered with the California Megan’s Law database, which tracks local sex offenders in California, in March 2020.
However the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office dropped the charges, he had to deal with government penalties from the Department of Justice for neglecting to enroll right away, as expected by the 2006 Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
In the wake of being sentenced for endeavored assault in the main degree in 1994, over twenty years before he wedded Minaj, the New York State Department ordered Petty as a level-two sex wrongdoer with a moderate gamble of reoffending.
Jennifer Hough, the 16-year-old girl Petty attempted to rape, sued Minaj and Petty last year, accusing them of “witness intimidation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, harassment, assault, battery, sexual assault, and sexual harassment.”
Minaj has stood by her man. Underneath a 2018 Instagram post, she clapped back at those who continued to criticize Petty’s criminal past. “He was 15, she was 16… in a relationship. But go awf Internet,” she wrote.
In a 2019 episode of her Queen Radio show on Apple Music, Minaj told her fans, “You’ve gotta cover your husband in prayer,” before claiming that he was wrongfully accused.
Petty and Minaj, who married in 2019, moved to California and have a son..
