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

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A recent update RnB singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly, is that he has been moved to a correctional centre located in Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, the United States of America.

Following the move, he is expected to his 30-year prison sentence in connection with multiple sexual offenses in the centre. The movement happened last week Wednesday when he was moved from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago.

The announcement was made by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons.

R. Kelly, in February 2023, was 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.

In September, a federal jury in Chicago had convicted the singer of six-count charges of sexual abuse against three women.

The women had testified under the pseudonyms names Jane, Pauline, and Nia on video.

He was also acquitted by the jury of enticement charges involving two other accusers – Tracy and Brittany.

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

Source: punchng.com

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