CHICAGO (IL)
Chicago Tribune
July 12, 2019
By Mary Schmich
It often takes a village to help a sexual predator stalk his victim.
Bill Cosby had a village. Larry Nassar had a village. So did the abusive clergy of the Catholic Church. All these predators relied for years on a community of people who actively enabled their predations or who conveniently looked away.
If the charges are to be believed, R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein had their villages too.
We often talk and think of sexual predators as lone wolves but the rich and famous, I’m guessing, never are. Look at what we’ve seen in the past week alone.
The singer R. Kelly was indicted twice — in Chicago and New York — on federal charges related to his alleged abuse of girls and women. The indictments aren’t the first he has faced, but this time they go further than one man.
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