R. Kelly will have to stay trapped in the lockup while he
awaits trials on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and child
pornography, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The 53-year-old R&B icon filed requests with federal
judges in the Windy City and Brooklyn to spring him from Chicago’s Metropolitan
Correctional Center, arguing that both his age and his recent hernia surgery
put him at high risk for catching the coronavirus.
But Brooklyn federal judge Ann Donnelly disagreed in a
ruling issued Tuesday, noting that there have been no reported cases of
COVID-19 among Kelly’s fellow inmates in Chicago. (Text and photo courtesy PageSix)
