Singer, R.Kelly moved from Chicago to North Carolina prison to serve 30-year sentence

R. Kelly , has been moved to a jail in North Carolina where he will spend a term of more than 30 years.

Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was transferred from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, on Wednesday of last week, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Singer R. Kelly relocated from Chicago to a prison in North Carolina to serve a 30-year sentence.

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R. Kelly Singer relocated from Chicago to a prison in North Carolina to serve a 30-year sentence.

April 25, 20230

R. Kelly, a disgraced musician, has been moved to a jail in North Carolina where he will spend a term of more than 30 years.

 Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was transferred last Wednesday from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

 

The disgraced musician, a native of Chicago, was sentenced in February to an additional year in jail for federal child pornography and child enticement crimes stemming from his conviction in Chicago, on top of the 30 years already served.

In September 2022, a federal jury in Chicago convicted Kelly of six counts accusing him of sexually abusing three women – who testified under the pseudonyms Jane, Pauline, and Nia – on video, while acquitting him of enticement charges involving two other accusers, Tracy and Brittany.

 

The same jury acquitted him of seven other charges, including obstruction of justice, accusing him and two associates of rigging his 2008 child pornography trial in Cook County.

Kelly still faces a solicitation of prostitution charge in Minnesota, although that case has stalled as his federal cases took precedence.

 

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx last month decided to drop sexual abuse and sexual assault indictments against Kelly, noting he was already facing decades in prison, saying her office’s limited resources would be better spent pursuing other sexual assault cases.

 

Kelly, 56, could be eligible for release from prison when he’s a little over 79 years old.