{"id":488067,"date":"2019-07-16T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859581"},"modified":"2019-07-16T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T18:57:31","slug":"r-kelly-pleads-not-guilty-denied-bond-on-federal-child-pornography-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/r-kelly-pleads-not-guilty-denied-bond-on-federal-child-pornography-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly Pleads Not Guilty, Denied Bond on Federal Child Pornography Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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R&B singer Robert Kelly pleaded not guilty on a 13-count indictment in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Tuesday. The indictment includes seven charges related to child pornography, five counts of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.<\/p>\n

The singer appeared before Judge Harry D. Leinenweber in an orange jumpsuit at Dirksen U.S. courthouse in Chicago. Kelly had been held in Metropolitan Correction Center in Chicago since his arrest on Thursday. The judge also denied R. Kelly<\/a>\u2019s petition for bond and has remanded the singer back to custody.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is an extreme danger to the community, especially to minor girls,\u201d prosecutors told Leinenweber, according to local reports. They called videos of alleged sexual encounters with underage girls \u201csadomasochistic abuse\u201d and argued against granting bail to the singer, claiming that he is a flight risk. \u201cThe defendant can entice girls to his own doorstep,\u201d prosecutors added in their argument against electronic monitoring. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have to leave his home to do that.\u201d Kelly faces 195 years in prison if convicted on the charges.<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s criminal attorney Steve Greenberg argued that the singer was not a flight risk, saying, \u201cUnlike his most famous song, \u2018I Believe I Can Fly,\u2019 Mr. Kelly doesn\u2019t like to fly\u201d (Greenberg made the same joke at bond hearing for Kelly in February.) He also noted that Kelly does not have the funds to flee, saying, \u201cThe money\u2019s in concerts and he doesn\u2019t play concerts these days.\u201d<\/p>\n

As to whether Kelly still presented a potential threat, Greenberg said, \u201cThere\u2019s no evidence that he\u2019s a risk to minors at all at this point.\u201d He also disputed claims that Kelly had tried to influence potential witnesses, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s no evidence, your honor, at this point \u2014 and there\u2019s no evidence because it hasn\u2019t happened \u2014 that since Mr. Kelly has heard these rumors [of criminal charges] swirling around\u2026 that he\u2019s done anything to any witness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greenberg also stated that Kelly was \u201centitled to be held in a humane situation\u201d and that he was \u201ca difficult person\u201d to hold at the Metropolitan Corrections Center \u201cbecause of other prisoners\u2026 because of [Kelly\u2019s] notoriety.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday,<\/span> federal indictments against Kelly in Chicago and New York<\/a> were made public. Per the Northern District of Illinois indictment, Kelly allegedly engaged in sexual acts with five victims when they were all under the age of 18; he recorded numerous explicit videos with four of them. There are<\/span> 12 unique victims that are listed in the New York and Chicago indictments, per an assistant U.S. attorney. The indictments also allege Kelly and his former manager Darrell McDavid paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to an acquaintance to collect the videos in order to conceal and cover up their existence. McDavid and Milton \u201cJune\u201d Brown are also charged in the Chicago case.<\/span> It also alleges Kelly and McDavid agreed to pay one of the minors and another individual for their efforts to return the videos, but only after subjecting themselves to polygraph tests that confirmed they had returned all the copies they had.<\/p>\n

A separate federal indictment in Eastern District of New York was also unsealed on Thursday, which charges Kelly with racketeering for allegedly operating a criminal enterprise that recruited girls and women to engage in illegal sexual activity across several states. An attorney for Kelly did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

If convicted on the Chicago charges, Kelly could face a minimum of five and maximum of 20 years on each of the child pornography charges. The maximum sentence for enticement of a minor is 10 years and conspiracy to obstruct justice is punishable up to five years.<\/p>\n

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R&B singer Robert Kelly pleaded not guilty on a 13-count indictment in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Tuesday. The indictment includes seven charges related to child pornography, five counts of enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The singer appeared before Judge Harry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 17:01:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}