R. Kelly accuser questions #meToo movement: What about us?

By Jessica Bennett, ebony.com

Jerhonda Pace has had enough of going ignored, as the woman who claims to be one of R. Kelly’s sexual assault victims feels his alleged “sex cults” have been dismissed even by those claiming to support the #MeToo movement.

“I was livid, because when their stories came out, they received so much attention. It was just crazy, and I was like, ‘What about R. Kelly’s victims? What about us?’ Nothing happened for us,” Pace recently expressed to Buzzfeed. “[…] I didn’t feel that [any of the investigators] were passionate about it and that they were going to pursue it the way that it needed to be pursued. I was told that they want more witnesses to corroborate my story, which makes no sense: I’m the victim; I have the proof: He was paying me, I have the contract he signed, I gave them the DNA T-shirt, I gave them everything proving I was there, and they were like, ‘We need more people to say that they saw you [with Kelly].’”

Read more at http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/r-kelly-accuser-me-too-movement

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