R. Kelly leaves jail in Chicago after posting bond. But R&B superstar R. Kelly seemed immune to the explosive charges that he had sexually abused teenage girls, keeping them like sex slaves in a cultlike setting where they had to ask permission to use the bathroom, often trapped by nondisclosure agreements. Then came last month’s six-part documentary series on Lifetime, “Surviving R. Kelly.” Woman after woman faced the camera to tell her harrowing story. “All of the systems failed — journalism failed, the police failed, the courts failed, the music industry failed, parents failed,” he said. (Rogatis’s book, “Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly,” will be published in June; he has been reporting, most recently, for the New Yorker magazine.)

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2019 16:41 UTC