NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs ‘ sentencing hearing opened Friday with prosecutors pushing for a long prison term while his children tearfully asked the judge for mercy in a sordid criminal case involving the hip-hop mogul’s girlfriends and male sex workers.

Prosecutors want an 11-year sentence for Combs, 55, who was convicted in July of flying people across state lines for drug-fueled marathon sexual encounters. Jurors acquitted him of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges that could have carried a life sentence.

His defense lawyers argue the encounters were consensual and say Combs should be freed immediately after more than a year in detention, which forced him to get sober and fueled his remorse. They played an 11-minute video in court Friday portraying Combs’ famil

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