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R. Kelly was aided by a network of complicity – common in workplace abuse – that enabled crimes to go on for decades

  • Written by Peggy Cunningham, Professor of Business, Dalhousie University
imageA lengthy spell in prison awaits the convicted sexual predator.Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images via AFP

R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking charges on Sept 27, 2021, having been exposed as the ringleader of a decades-long scheme to recruit girls, boys and women to have sex with.

During the six-week long trial,...

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