R Kelly moved to New York
By AFP
June 24, 2021
New York: R. Kelly has been transferred from prison in Chicago to a jail in New York ahead of his sex crimes trial next month, records showed on Wednesday.
The singer is now being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. The artist born Robert Sylvester Kelly was arrested on sex-trafficking charges in July 2019. He is accused of systematically recruiting girls for sex while touring and coercing them into sexual activity.
Kelly, 54, faces charges including racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery and forced labor. They span from 1994 to 2018. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to all charges and jury selection is due to start on August 9.
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