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Pop star Kesha, who has not been in the spotlight for a while, was denied by a judge to nullify her contract on Friday with Sony Records, a company that links the singer to the producer who she says has sexually assaulted her. This explains her absence from making music.
The 28-year-old is seeking to terminate her contract with Sony Records, which includes six more albums, because of a sexually abusive history with producer Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald). Additionally, Kesha is afraid to continue her career with the Gottwald, and she fears that the Sony Records won’t promote her music if she’s paired with another producer. According to Kesha, that sexually abusive history includes years of Gottwald forcing her to snort drugs then later raping her. This pattern began about ten years ago after Kesha’s 18th birthday when she claims the producer raped her. Of course, he was not criminally charged.
It’s ironic to me how society tells women to report their rape, but when they actually do, they’re treated as if they wanted it to happen. So it is only right for victims who report their rape after years of its occurrence to be blatantly deemed as liars. Just ask Bill Cosby’s victims. Let’s not even discuss rape on college campuses in which the favor is never with the victim, and the rape is not handled like a criminal offense.
Unfortunately, that is the sick message that we are sending victims of rape. We are telling them to just forget about what happened to them because their case does not stand a chance in court. According to a graph released in 2012 by the Enliven Project, a campaign that exposes sexual violence and uplifts victims, out of 1,000 rapists, 100 are reported, 30 faced trial, 10 were jailed, and two were falsely accused. If just 2% of the reports are false, then why do people constantly treat a rape victim like a suspect?
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A person who is raped would not want to report because it would be like reliving the humiliating experience all over again, so if a victim is reporting it, the likelihood of the claim being true is very high.
This traumatic experience is preventing an artist from doing something that she loves. If a celebrity like Kesha cannot get justice, what does that mean for victims who are not wealthy and famous?