Hi there.
A warning before we get started.
Today's episode is about sexual abuse.
This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today, how R.
Kelly got away with sexually abusing children for decades.
Let's go back to the year 2000.
It's the day before Thanksgiving.
A journalist named Jim DeRogatis heads into the newsroom to take care of a few things before the holiday weekend.
I only went to the office once a week to pick up my mail, file my expenses, and get the hell out before they could tell me, you know, Styx is playing at the Star Plaza Casino.
We haven't written about them in a long time.
Jim was the longtime music critic for the Chicago Sun Times.
Roger Ebert did movies, I did music.
And when he got into the newsroom that day, there was a tip from a reader waiting for him.
I got a fax anonymously.
That's how long ago the technology was still faxes.
And it said, Dear Mr.
Dear Goddess.
You reviewed R.