R. Kelly, who was convicted of federal child pornography and child enticement charges, has been transferred to a prison in North Carolina to serve his sentence.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Kelly was moved from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina last week.
Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was sentenced in February to an additional year in prison for his Chicago conviction, on top of the 30 years he is already serving for a separate conviction out of New York.
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In September 2022, a federal jury in Chicago convicted Kelly of six counts of sexually abusing three women on video. The same jury acquitted him of enticement charges involving two other accusers and seven other charges, including obstruction of justice.
Kelly still faces a solicitation of prostitution charge in Minnesota, but the case has stalled as his federal cases took precedence.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx decided last month to drop sexual abuse and sexual assault indictments against Kelly, stating that he was already facing decades in prison and that her office’s limited resources would be better spent pursuing other sexual assault cases.