R Kelly kept on suicide watch ‘for her own safety’

R Kelly is on suicide watch for her own safety.

The US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn filed court papers Saturday night saying the disgraced R&B superstar will remain under supervision following a psychological evaluation.

Assistant US Attorney Melanie Speight said in the filing that her “current life circumstances undoubtedly bring emotional distress.”

She added: “He is a convicted sex offender who has been sentenced to spend the next three decades in prison.

“In the immediate future, he faces another federal criminal trial in Chicago on charges related to child pornography.”

The New York Times said Sunday that a staff psychologist at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn placed Kelly on suicide watch for the first time after her sentencing last Wednesday, when a psychiatric review determined she was clinically at risk of harm to herself. .

Kelly, 55, has been with the MDC since he was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for sex trafficking and racketeering.

It was revealed that he was on suicide watch a day after Kelly’s lawyers announced that they were suing the facility for “unlawfully” putting him on surveillance.

Inmates on suicide watch are generally required to wear paper gowns and may have their utensils taken away and be forced to eat with their hands.

Kelly’s legal team says the “harsh” conditions of suicide watch have caused the ‘Bump N’ Grind’ singer irreparable damage, calling the MDC a “gulag”-style prison on Friday when they stated they were suing. to the institution.

They said the monitoring violated Kelly’s rights under the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishment.

Jail policy included in a court filing says that while on suicide watch, inmates may also be restrained and are under constant supervision by guards.

The New York Times added Sunday that government lawyers said it would be “unprecedented” for the jail to remove Kelly from suicide watch.

The jail, in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, has housed Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, the convicted sex trafficker and former partner of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who was also recently placed on suicide watch in jail.

Kelly, whose birth name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, will face another trial in Chicago on August 22 on charges that he produced child pornography and enticed minors into sexual acts.