Security officers have moved popular American singer, R. Kelly to a prison in North Carolina to begin his 30-year sentence.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed
Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly – was moved on Wednesday of
last week from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal
Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina.
The Chicago native was sentenced in February
to one additional year in prison for his Chicago conviction federal child
pornography and child enticement charges, on top of the 30 years he’s already
serving for a separate conviction out of New York.
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.
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