R. Kelly Petrified with Fear, Wrought with Insomnia

Assault on R. KELLY at the Metropolitan Correctional Center by a fellow inmate last month, is in cell hell. Fear and terror have left him petrified and paranoid, said Nicole Blank Becker, one of Kelly’s attorney.

Becker claims Kelly  can’t sleep and is now afraid to leave his jail cell during the two hours he’s permitted daily to venture out. His insomnia is serious.

A former sex crimes prosecutor for the Michigan Macomb County state’s attorney’s office, Becker tells He’s even afraid to get his hair cut.

Kelly is scared for his life terrified every single day since he was beaten in his jail cell by fellow MCC inmate Jeremiah Shane Farmer a month ago.

Becker claims Kelly tells her there is a prisoner lockdown every time his fans conduct an outdoor protest near the MCC. His fans are already all over the internet protesting his incarceration.

Farmer, a Latin Kings street gang member convicted of a racketeering conspiracy last year involving two 1999 Northwest Indiana murders, admitted via court papers filed this month he had attacked Kelly and said the government made him attack Kelly. Kelly’s Chicago attorney, has called for an evidentiary hearing before federal Judge Harry Leinenweber on the matter.

Kelly has been held at the MCC since last summer awaiting trial on a litany of criminal charges across multiple jurisdictions, including federal indictments in Illinois and New York alleging racketeering, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Cook County and soliciting a minor and prostitution in Minnesota

Adding new details to Kelly’s prison attack, Becker claims Kelly was lying down with a blanket covering his face and wearing ear pods on the bottom tier of a bed bunk at 9:45 a.m. on August 26, when someone wearing shoes entered his unlocked cell and began to stomp and kick his face.

In an attempt to defend himself from the bottom bed tier, Kelly and his attacker were then pepper sprayed by a corrections officer. The previous occupant of his new MCC jail cell following the attack was his attacker, Jeremiah Farme. She claims Kelly now fears reprisals from inmate friends of his attacker who are housed near his cell.

Becker also claims Kelly told her one inmate in his MCC unit is accusing him of stealing his songs, and his prison commissary-purchased mp3 podcast recorder has yet to be returned by the MCC.

Greenberg has been fighting to get the singer out of MCC incarceration since the coronavirus pandemic hit this spring. He doesn’t have COVID, but he is still literally fighting for his life attorney said.

Kelly’s brigade of lawyers have been trying for months to get him out of jail while he awaits trial on federal charges in Chicago and Brooklyn. Another Kelly lawyer argued for the singer’s release before the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, which took his request under advisement.