Nicki Minaj’s husband was sentenced Wednesday (July 6) in Los Angeles to probation and house arrest for failing to register as a sex offender.
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 reported, based on information filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Last year, Petty pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender in the state of California, withdrawing his initial not guilty plea.
Earlier in 2019, he was charged after his arrest at 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 ago.
As previously reported, Petty registered with California’s Megan’s Law database in March 2020, which tracks domestic sex offenders in California.
Although the charges were dropped by the Los Angeles County 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).
The New York State Department labeled Petty a second-degree sex offender, which considers him a moderate risk of reoffending, after he was convicted of attempted first-degree rape in 1994, more than two decades before he married for Minaj.
Last year, Jennifer Howe, 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 , beating, sexual assault and sexual harassment.”
Petty and Minaj moved to California after getting married in 2019 and have a son.
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Minaj stood by her man. In a 2018 Instagram post, she hit back at those who continued to criticize Petty’s criminal past. “He was 15, she was 16… they were in a relationship. But go to the internet,” she 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 he was being unfairly accused.
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