Legal professionals for disgraced R&B celebrity R. Kelly say the singer was taken to the hospital, alleging he suffered an “overdose” brought on by officers at a North Carolina jail the place he’s at present housed.
Sources informed ABC Information nonetheless that R. Kelly was taken to the hospital for 2 days for routine medical care and was launched and is at present on the jail.
Kelly is serving a 30-year jail sentence in North Carolina after he was convicted in federal court docket in 2021 of racketeering and violating the Mann Act, a intercourse trafficking regulation, together with having intercourse with underage ladies.
On this Sept. 17, 2019, file picture, R. Kelly seems throughout a listening to on the Leighton Felony Courthouse in Chicago.
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A court docket submitting filed by Kelly’s lawyer, Beau B. Brindley, and obtained by ABC Information, alleges mismanagement by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
The submitting additionally alleges Kelly was denied surgical procedure by jail officers who accompanied the singer to the ability.
The Bureau of Prisons mentioned in an announcement to ABC Information, “For privateness, security, and safety causes, we don’t focus on the situations of confinement for any incarcerated particular person, together with medical and health-related points. Moreover, the Bureau of Prisons doesn’t touch upon pending litigation or issues which might be the topic of authorized proceedings.”
The “I Consider I Can Fly” singer was additionally found guilty in 2022 on intercourse crime fees, together with producing little one pornography and engaging minors to have interaction in sexual exercise, in his second federal trial.
A federal choose in Chicago sentenced R. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, to twenty years in jail in 2023 for these convictions.
Nevertheless, the sentencing solely added yet one more 12 months to his jail time as Kelly will serve 19 years concurrently together with his New York jail sentence, according to Chicago ABC station WLS. He would then be required to serve one 12 months within the Chicago case.
An lawyer for Kelly didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
ABC Information’ Luke Barr and Angeline Bernabe contributed to this report.
