Federal prosecutors are moving to sentence Nicki Minaj's husband Kenneth Petty to over a year in jail for failing to register as a s***offender, according to court documents. The trial is set to commence on July 6th.

"Having previously been convicted of attempted rape, defendant knowingly failed to register as a s***offender upon moving to California," prosecutors said in a recent filing. Petty, now 44, served four years in jail in 1995 after pleading guilty to the attempted rape of Jennifer Hough, who was then 16 years old.

In August, Hough also sued Minaj and Petty in New York for intentional infliction of emotional distress and sexual assault, alleging that the couple attempted to pay her $500,000 to recant the allegations, and intimidated her on various occasions – claiming that the couple was trying to coerce her to help them get Petty off of the registry.

That case has now moved to California where the couple lives. Minaj was also dropped as a defendant in January. Still, prosecutors are pursuing action against Petty, saying that when he moved to California in 2019 while dating Minaj, he failed to register as a s***offender.

"The timing of defendant's lapse in registration is concerning, given that it occurred when defendant began dating his wife, quit his job, moved to Los Angeles, and adopted an affluent lifestyle," prosecutors wrote in the filing.

"Defendant has been completing s***offender registration documents for nearly 20 years," prosecutors wrote in the filing. "Over the course of two decades, he was repeatedly warned that if he moved to another state, it was his responsibility to follow any local, city, state, federal, or international laws regarding registration."

Prosecutors said that Petty should face 15 months behind bars and pay a $55,000 fine. Petty is due to appear at a sentencing hearing on July 6.

oh she was distracting us from this

While I’m a big supporter of prison reform and rehabilitation and banning the box. I think it goes without saying that there should be an exception for sexual offenders, as they can’t be rehabilitated.

This has been a very weird saga in that Nicki has been so supportive of a rapist.

Pretty crazy that he managed to avoid that for two whole decades

Just looking at the picture and off the charge alone he not gonna do well in jail

can’t imagine what kinda abuse the woman herself probably went through in her life to marry a nigga like this fr

just a sad situation all around, not saying nicki a victim, but s*** just sad fr

Nigga stands like a cardboard cutout in all their pics

😭😭😭

His jeans tight as hell

i’m just wondering why is she still defending that man so hard for? like is the love that deep or something?

All these nicki threads today

yeah its crazy

fire

Should he be auto registered. Asking the felon to do it is pointless.

Exactly its a fansite at this point.

He didn’t wanna check in

needs to be updated regularly to keep all his locations/addresses.etc current.

Lol the way y’all be carrying on about this dude you would think he did this within the past 5 years and not as a 16-17 year old (who is currently 44)

What he did was disgusting but people holding some s*** nigga did at 16-17 over him at 44 is…odd.

For the longest I thought bruh recently did the s*** and not as high schooler…still wrong and disgusting he did that but that’s some internet morals bullshit that something you did at 16-17 just washes out any room for you to be a different man 30 years later

WE DON’T F*** WITH CLOWNS 🤡

Nah Fr tho why would she stick around with this guy wtf

This is a perplexing one

On The one hand im a firm believer in not punishing someone for something they did when they were a teen

But on the otherhand there is significant evidence that many sexual offenders cannot be reformed

I feel bad for Nicki and their kid.

Yeah he’s guilty as f*** but if he wasn’t dating nicki would people care? I understand shes a high profile rapper.. but if he was dating lil kim or some s*** no one would care