R. Kelly has pleaded not guilty and was denied bond on federal child pornography charges. The singer has been remanded back to jail
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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“He is an extreme danger to the community, especially to minor girls,” prosecutors told Leinenweber, according to local reports.
Greenberg also stated that Kelly was “entitled to be held in a humane situation” and that he was “a difficult person” to hold at the Metropolitan Corrections Center “because of other prisoners… because of [Kelly’s] notoriety.”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.
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 “June” Brown are also charged in the Chicago case.
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