Jelani Maraj, brother to American Hip Hop star Nicki Minaj has been jailed to serve 25 years for repeatedly raping his stepdaughter who is 11 years old.
A New York Court presided over by Judge Robert McDonald pronounced Jelani guilty of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a child.
Judge McDonald handed Jelani’s jail sentence on January 25.
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.
