It is a sober moment for American singer, songwriter, and producer Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly.
The songwriter has been moved to a prison in North Carolina where he will serve his prison sentence.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that R. Kelly was moved on April 19.
He was moved 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 on federal child pornography and child enticement charges.
This is an addition to the 30 years he’s already serving for a separate conviction out of New York.
R.Kelly Faces Multiple Charges
Earlier, in September 2022, a federal jury in Chicago convicted Kelly of six counts accusing him of sexually abusing three women.
They testified under the pseudonyms Jane, Pauline, and Nia, on video.
Also the court 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.
R.Kelly still faces a solicitation of prostitution charge in Minnesota, although that case has stalled as his federal cases have taken precedence.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx last month decided to drop sexual abuse and sexual assault indictments against Kelly.
According to her, R.Kelly was already facing decades in prison.
She says her office’s limited resources would be better spent pursuing other sexual assault cases.
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Kelly, 56, could be eligible for release from prison when he’s a little over 79 years old.
The singer (born January 8, 1967, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was one of the best-selling R&B artists of the 1990s and early 21st century.
