The Pied Piper Sing Sings!

Over for the Pied Piper of R&B.

The former R&B singer was sentenced in his state trial. Robert Sylvester Kelly, 55 will spend 30 years in the iron college. He still awaits a federal trial in which he could face LIFE in the iron college.

The sexual predator as sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges stemming from his efforts over years to use his fame to ensnare victims he sexually abused.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence the predator to more than 25 years behind bars, while his defense attorneys asked for 10 or fewer, saying prosecutors' request was "tantamount to a life sentence."

Survivors of the sexual predator's abuse held hands and prayed as US District Court Judge Ann Donnelly began reading his sentence. The sexual predator -- who wore a tan prison uniform, dark-rimmed glasses and a black mask at the hearing in federal court in Brooklyn -- showed no emotion.

"You left in your wake a trail of broken lives," Donnelly told the sexual predator

In deciding the sentence, Donnelly said she considered the sexual predator's own traumatic childhood, during which his attorneys said he was repeatedly sexually abused by a family member and a landlord.

"It may explain, at least in part, what led to your behavior," the judge said. "It most surely is not an excuse."

Jovante Cunningham, a former backup singer for the sexual predator praised the sentence.

"I started this journey 30 years ago," Cunningham said outside the court after the hearing. "There wasn't a day in my life up until this moment that I actually believed that the judicial system would come through for Black and brown girls. I stand here very proud of my judicial system, very proud of my fellow survivors and very pleased with the outcome."

A jury convicted the sexual predator last September on nine counts, including one charge of racketeering and eight counts of violations of the Mann Act, a sex trafficking law. Prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York accused the sexual predator of using his status as a celebrity and a "network of people at his disposal to target girls, boys and young women for his own sexual gratification."

The five-week federal trial in Brooklyn included testimony from witnesses who said they were sexually and physically abused by sexual predator. The court also heard from people involved with orchestrating the disgraced R&B singer's 1994 marriage to the late singer Aaliyah when she was just 15 years old and he was an adult after she believed she'd gotten pregnant.

The King of R&B is now a federal intern.

The sexual predator's attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said he would not address the court, pointing to the other criminal case faced by the sexual predator, but said before the sentence was read that her client "rejects that he is this monster."

"He accepts that he is a flawed individual," Bonjean said, "but he is not this one-dimensional monster that the government has portrayed and the media has portrayed."

The sexual predator made his only comment in response to the judge after Bonjean said he wouldn't speak: "Yes, your honor, that's my wish."

Bonjean said she advised the sexual predator not to speak at the sentencing because of pending litigation against him, but added, "he has regrets. And he is sad. Nobody wants to hear what he heard today."