New Book ‘Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly’ Indicts Every System In Chicago

New Book ‘Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly’ Indicts Every System In Chicago

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The Chicago journalist who broke the R. Kelly sexual abuse story has a new book out called Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly. Author Jim DeRogatis meticulously lays out three decades of sexual abuse allegations against Kelly by dozens of black women who were teenagers at the time. He indicts nearly every system in Chicago — from the schools, to the courts, to the churches — for helping to enable or cover up the abuse. As he told WBEZ’s Melba Lara, “Everybody failed.”