Rapper Kodak Black gets proabortion in teen’s assault case

<p>FLORENCE, S.C. &mdash; Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced to probation Wednesday for assaulting a teenage girl in a South Carolina hotel room.</p>
<p>Black as originally charged with rape, but accepted a deal and pleaded guilty to first-degree assault at the Florence County courthouse.</p>
<p>Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, faces a 10-year suspended prison sentence. He won’t have to go to prison on the charge as long as he completes 18 months of probation, media outlets reported.</p>
<p>The victim in the case watched the plea online, and Black spoke to her. “I apologize this happened, and I’m hopeful we can all move forward,” he said.</p>
<p>Later on his <a href="https://twitter.com/KodakBlack1k">Twitter feed</a>, Black posted that the victim just wanted to get the case over with, and “I ain’t have to come off no money."</p>
<p>The assault happened in 2016 when Black was in Florence for a performance. The girl said the rapper attacked her at a hotel room after the show, biting her on the neck and breast and continuing even after she told him to stop, authorities said.</p>
<p>The girl reported the attack to a school nurse who called police, investigators said. </p>
<p>Black had a three-year federal prison sentence for <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2a6754e471974e30b873a8cc478e4d88"> falsifying documents</a> used to buy weapons at a Miami gun store <a href="https://apnews.com/article/lil-wayne-kodak-black-trump-pardon-1e1baa4f527bc80767f35d09fa310459">commuted</a> by President Donald Trump on his last day in office. He had served about half his sentence.</p>
<p>Black’s lawyer, Bradford Cohen, was once a contestant on Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” show. The pardon notes that Kodak Black paid for schoolchildren’s notebooks, supplies to daycare centers and food for the hungry, and donated $50,000 for restaurants in his hometown of Pompano Beach, Florida.</p>
<p>Black has sold over 30 million singles since 2014, and has had several multiplatinum and platinum-certified singles, including “Zeze,” “No Flockin’” and “Roll in Peace.” </p>