By Enyichukwu Enemanna
Popular RnB singer, R. Kelly has been moved to a correctional centre located in North Carolina where he is expected serve his 30-year prison sentence in connection with multiple sexual offences.
The American entertainer was moved to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Caroline Wednesday last week from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, the US Federal Bureau of Prisons had announced.
The Chicago native whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly was sentenced in February to one additional year in prison for his Chicago conviction of federal child pornography and child enticement charges.
This is on addition to the the 30 years he’s already serving for a separate conviction out of New York.
The 56-year-old singer may likely not be eligible for release from prison till he hits 80s.
A federal jury in Chicago had last year September convicted R. Kelly of six-count charges of sexual abuse against three women who testified under the pseudonyms Jane, Pauline, and Nia on video.
The jury however acquitted him of enticement charges involving two other accusers, Tracy and Brittany.
He was also acquitted of seven other charges, including obstruction of justice, accusation of him and two associates 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.
