Journalist Jim Derogatis Reveals Why It Took So Long For The Case Against R Kelly To Stick

    It all started with a fax.



    DeRogatis’s book Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly explores why it took so long to bring Kelly down. DeRogatis and then fellow reporter Abdon Pallasch published a detailed case against Kelly in the Chicago Sun-Times in late December 2000, but the claims seemed to slide right off the singer’s smooth persona.



    Barnes said along with the willful ignorance of Chicago fans, another obstacle to action was and remains the “pathological apathy” toward sexual violence in the Black community. Sixty percent of Black women experience sexual violence before age 18, she said, but they’re just written off as “fast girls,” or their abusers are seen as “sick” and are not held accountable.