Former member of the SM Entertainment boy band NCT, Taeil, has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to quasi-rape.

The singer pleaded guilty to a special quasi-rape charge, which applies when two or more people jointly engage in sexual acts with a victim who is unconscious.

Singer Taeil is facing the music — to the tune of more than three years in prison — for a sex crime that prompted his departure from the K-Pop group NCT.