Singer R Kelly walks out of the Chicago jail after paying $161,000 as child support

R Kelly released from the jail!

Following the previous detention on sexual abuse charges, singer R Kelly was again taken into custody on Wednesday after failing to pay $161,000 that he owed as payment to his ex-wife and their three children. The singer paid the amount as the child support and walked out of the Chicago jail on Saturday. It was the second time when the R&B superstar was released from the Cook County jail located in his hometown Chicago. As he was released from the jail, he quoted a journalist, “I promise you we’re going to straighten all this stuff out.”

Earlier, on February 25, he was freed from the prison for another case wherein he was accused of sexually abusing four women out of which three were teenagers. He exited the jail for several days to make an arrangement of $100,000 as payment. He will be back in the court for both these cases in March.

Following the previous detention on sexual abuse charges, singer R Kelly was again taken into custody on Wednesday after failing to pay $161,000 that he owed as payment to his ex-wife and their three children. The singer paid the amount as the child support and walked out of the Chicago jail on Saturday. It was the second time when the R&B superstar was released from the Cook County jail located in his hometown Chicago. As he was released from the jail, he quoted a journalist, “I promise you we’re going to straighten all this stuff out.”

Earlier, on February 25, he was freed from the prison for another case wherein he was accused of sexually abusing four women out of which three were teenagers. He exited the jail for several days to make an arrangement of $100,000 as payment. He will be back in the court for both these cases in March.

The abuse in the criminal case is said to have been taken place in May 1998 and January 2010.Ealier in 2002, he was criminally charged for filming himself having sex with a 14-year-old girl. For the same, he was tried and was acquitted of child pornography charges in 2008. In a BuzzFeed report it was also stated that the singer had kept women in his house in Chicago and Atlanta as virtual sex slaves.

Earlier this year in January a six-part documentary titled Surviving R. Kelly was released wherein the survivors came out and spoke about their ordeals.

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