Singer R. Kelly to serve 30-year jail term in North Carolina prison

Popular American RnB singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly, better known as R. Kelly has been moved to a prison in North Carolina where he is expected to  serve his 30-years prison sentence.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that the singer was moved on Wednesday from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina.

In September 2022, a federal jury in Chicago convicted R. 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 Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence the 55-year-old R&B Singer to more than 25 years behind bars, while his defense attorneys asked the Court for 10 or fewer, stating that the prosecutors’ request was “tantamount to a life imprisonment.”

The singer was, in February 2023, sentenced to one additional year in prison for his Chicago conviction of federal child pornography and child enticement charges.

This is in addition to the 30 years he’s already serving for a separate conviction out of New York.

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