15 and he was 27. (The name of her debut album, which producer Kelly apparently chose, was Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number.)
Not to mention, he calls himself the “Pied Piper.” Historically, in the original Pied Piper story, a man who was trying to get back at a town’s mayor for not paying him, dressed in green like a hunter playing his pipe. In so doing, he attracted the town’s children. A hundred and thirty children followed him out of town and into a cave and were never seen again. This is the man R. Kelly names himself after–a man who lures children, using music.
Shaking. My. Head.
Despite what you may think you know, with these first-account stories from women, it’s hard not to see or dismiss the pain, anguish and sheer disgust they’ve had to endure. Below are a few clips from the show:
Instead of turning himself in for committing sex crimes, in 2018, Kelly released a 19-minute song admitting that he’s “made some mistakes.” The admission is widely considered unsatisfactory and “too little, too late.”
So what happens now?
Many of the past survivors have either moved on, have some type of litigation against Kelly or are trying to warn others. We as well, are trying to do the latter.
Sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape obviously are sex offenses. But they have little to do with sex itself. The people who are making headlines for their exploitation of women employed by their company likely have had no shortage of opportunities for consensual sex. Sexual predators have plenty of