Federal prosecutors hit R. Kelly with more criminal charges Friday, accusing the disgraced R&B singer of having unprotected sex with a girl in 2015 without disclosing he had herpes. There was no arraignment date set for the new charges in federal court in Brooklyn. The new charges further a string of dozens of other counts of state and federal sexual misconduct charges in Illinois, Minnesota and New York, from sexual assault to heading a racketeering scheme aimed at supplying Kelly with girls. The Grammy-award winning musician was jailed in July and has been awaiting trial at a Chicago federal jail a block from the courthouse where he attends pretrial hearings. Federal prosecutors in Chicago have signaled they will file more charges, prompting a judge there to push Kelly's trial date there to Oct. 13.

Source: CBC News March 13, 2020 18:11 UTC