R. KELLY HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO NORTH CAROLINA PRISON TO SERVE 30-YEAR SENTENCE
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By Adeniyi Onaara
Kelly, a popular American musician, has been sent to a North Carolina prison to serve his prison sentence.
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.
In February, the Chicago native was sentenced to an additional year in jail for his Chicago conviction on federal child pornography and child enticement charges, on top of the 30 years he’s already serving on a separate New York conviction.
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 cleared him of seven other charges, including obstruction of justice, for rigging his 2008 child pornography trial in Cook County.
Kelly is still facing a solicitation of prostitution charge in Minnesota, but his federal prosecutions have taken precedence.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx decided last month to drop Kelly’s sexual abuse and assault indictments, citing the fact that he was already facing decades in jail and that her office’s limited resources would be better spent pursuing other sexual assault cases.
Kelly, 56, may be eligible for release from prison when he is 79 years old.
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