R Kelly facing sweeping new federal sex crime charges

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Singer R Kelly&comma; already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors&comma; has been arrested in Chicago over accusations that he and members of his entourage recruited women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity with the performer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The indictment unsealed on Friday in the Eastern District of New York includes charges of racketeering&comma; kidnapping&comma; forced labour and the sexual exploitation of a child&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It says Kelly and his managers&comma; bodyguards and other assistants picked out women and girls at concerts and other venues and arranged for them to travel to see Kelly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They also set rules the women and girls had to follow&comma; including not leaving their rooms — even to eat or go to the bathroom — without Kelly’s permission&comma; calling the singer &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Daddy”&comma; and not looking at other men&comma; the indictment alleges&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The indictment alleges that the criminal acts occurred over two decades dating back to 1999&comma; both in the US and overseas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It accuses Kelly of engaging in sexual acts with girls under 18 and without disclosing that he had a sexually transmitted disease&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It also accuses him of producing child pornography&comma; including by asking minors to send him photographs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>US Attorney’s Office spokesman Joseph Fitzpatrick said the R&amp&semi;B singer was out walking his dog when he was taken into custody at about 7pm on Thursday and was being held by federal authorities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website&comma; Kelly is being held at the high-rise Metropolitan Correctional Centre in Chicago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was arrested after the indictment was handed down earlier on Thursday in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kelly’s lawyer&comma; Steve Greenberg&comma; said that federal agents arrested Kelly on charges out of Illinois and New York&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The singer hopes to be released after a bail hearing early next week&comma; Mr Greenberg said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The conduct Kelly is charged with in federal court &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;appears to largely be the same” as what he is charged with in state court&comma; Mr Greenberg said&comma; adding that Kelly &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;was aware of the investigations and the charges were not a surprise”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The arrest was the second time this year that Kelly has been taken into custody in Chicago on sex charges&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 52-year-old Grammy winner&comma; whose real name is Robert Kelly&comma; was arrested in February on 10 counts in Illinois of sexually abusing three girls and a woman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He pleaded not guilty to those charges and was released on bail&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Then on May 30&comma; Cook County prosecutors added 11 more sex-related counts involving one of the women who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was underage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Darrell Johnson&comma; a publicist for Kelly&comma; said he planned to deliver a statement about the latest developments at a Friday morning news conference in Atlanta&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He declined to comment ahead of that time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kelly has faced mounting legal troubles this year after Lifetime aired a documentary Surviving R Kelly&comma; which revisited allegations of sexual abuse of girls&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The series followed the BBC’s R Kelly&colon; Sex&comma; Girls &amp&semi; Videotapes&comma; released in 2018&comma; that alleged the singer was holding women against their will and running a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sex cult”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Soon after the release of the Lifetime documentary&comma; Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said her office had been inundated with calls about the allegations in the documentary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her office’s investigation led to the charges in February and additional counts added in May&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kelly avoided prison after similar allegations were made more than a decade ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A jury in 2008 acquitted him of child pornography charges that stemmed from a videotape&comma; obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times&comma; allegedly showing Kelly having sex with a minor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e30f2d64b66">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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