R Kelly facing new charges

By Canadian Press

Published: July 12, 2019 at 4:37 PM

CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 26: R&B singer R. Kelly appears at a hearing before Judge Lawrence Flood at Leighton Criminal Court Building June 26, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Prosecutors turned over to Kelly's defense team a DVD that alleges to show Kelly having sex with an underage girl in the 1990s. Kelly has been charged with mulitiple sex crimes involving four women, three of whom were underage at the time of the alleged encounters.
(Photo by E. Jason Wambsgans-Pool/Getty Images) — CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 26: R&B singer R. Kelly appears at a hearing before Judge Lawrence Flood at Leighton Criminal Court Building June 26, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Prosecutors turned over to Kelly's defense team a DVD that alleges to show Kelly having sex with an underage girl in the 1990s. Kelly has been charged with mulitiple sex crimes involving four women, three of whom were underage at the time of the alleged encounters. (Photo by E. Jason Wambsgans-Pool/Getty Images)CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 26: R&B singer R. Kelly appears at a hearing before Judge Lawrence Flood at Leighton Criminal Court Building June 26, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Prosecutors turned over to Kelly's defense team a DVD that alleges to show Kelly having sex with an underage girl in the 1990s. Kelly has been charged with mulitiple sex crimes involving four women, three of whom were underage at the time of the alleged encounters. (Photo by E. Jason Wambsgans-Pool/Getty Images)

R. Kelly is facing new charges under a sweeping US federal indictment that accuses the singer of recruiting women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity.

R. Kelly is facing new charges under a sweeping US federal indictment that accuses the singer of recruiting women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity.

The indictment unsealed in New York today includes charges of racketeering, kidnapping, forced labour and sexual exploitation.

It alleges Kelly and members of his entourage picked out women and girls at concerts and arranged for them to travel to see Kelly.

They also allegedly set rules the women and girls had to follow, including not leaving their rooms without Kelly's permission, calling the singer "Daddy,'' and not looking at other men.