{"id":1535792,"date":"2022-07-01T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535792"},"modified":"2022-07-01T17:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T21:49:23","slug":"r-kelly-is-not-suicidal-heres-why-he-landed-on-suicide-watch-in-prison-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/r-kelly-is-not-suicidal-heres-why-he-landed-on-suicide-watch-in-prison-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Kelly Is Not Suicidal \u2014 Here\u2019s Why He Landed On Suicide Watch In Prison Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fr-kelly-is-not-suicidal-heres-why-he-landed-on-suicide-watch-in-prison-anyway%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535792&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Disgraced R&#038;B singer R. Kelly was reportedly placed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/01\/us\/r-kelly-suicide-watch-sentencing\/index.html?utm_term=link&#038;utm_content=2022-07-01T17%3A16%3A53&#038;utm_source=twcnnbrk&#038;utm_medium=social\">suicide watch<\/a> on Friday in a New York federal detention facility \u2014 despite claims from attorney Jennifer Bonjean that he is not actually suicidal.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/r-kelly-facing-up-to-25-years-in-prison-for-decades-of-crime-that-were-fueled-by-narcissism\/\">convicted<\/a>\u00a0in September of 2021 on nine counts of sex trafficking and racketeering \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-r-kelly-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison-following-sex-trafficking-conviction\/\">was sentenced<\/a> on Wednesday to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Within one day of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/06\/29\/r-kelly-sentenced-30-years-federal-sex-crime-case\/?adid=social-twa\">sentencing<\/a>, however, Kelly had reportedly been placed on suicide watch \u2014 primarily because of his fame.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">R. Kelly has been placed on suicide watch at the federal detention facility in New York where he is being held after he was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, his lawyer said Friday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LuqOOokShm\">https:\/\/t.co\/LuqOOokShm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnnbrk\/status\/1542920190811410435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bonjean told CNN that she did not believe that Kelly was suicidal and she thought that had actually been afraid of being put on suicide watch. \u201cThe irony of putting someone on suicide watch when they\u2019re not suicidal is it actually causes more harm,\u201d she said, explaining that prison officials had told prosecutors that they were placing the performer on suicide watch because he was so well known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s punishment for being high-profile. And it\u2019s horrifying frankly. To put someone under suicide watch under those conditions is cruel and unusual when they don\u2019t need it,\u201d Bonjean added, noting also that she had asked her client to email her from the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn once he returned from his sentencing hearing but he had failed to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s conviction came after a five-week trial that heard testimony from dozens of witnesses \u2014 some of whom said that they had been sexually physically abused by the singer and some who testified that they had assisted in arranging his 1994 marriage to the late singer Aaliyah, who was just 15 years old at the time. Kelly was 12 years her senior.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s attorneys brought forth a number of associates who testified that they had never seen him abuse anyone. The singer himself never took the stand.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly is set to face a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/29\/nyregion\/r-kelly-chicago-trial-august.html\">second federal trial<\/a> in Chicago this August, on charges including luring children to perform sex acts and producing child pornography. He was previously tried over a decade ago \u2014 on multiple child pornography charges in Illinois in 2008 \u2014 but he was acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>He is also facing a number of state charges in Illinois as well as accusations of prostitution with a minor in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to sentencing in his New York federal trial, Kelly\u2019s attorneys asked for a sentence of less than 10 years. The prosecution recommended no less than 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgraced R&#038;B singer R. Kelly was reportedly placed on suicide watch on Friday in a New York federal detention facility \u2014 despite claims from attorney Jennifer Bonjean that he is not actually suicidal. Kelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted\u00a0in September of 2021 on nine counts of sex trafficking and racketeering \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1535815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}