Unwittingly had ‘sex’ with a child, realised it was a child, had ‘sex’ a second time.
And wrote a song about it. And then wrote it into his autobiography.
How this man apparently skated through the #MeToo movement unscathed is truly baffling.
Is Flea still cool tho?
I heard he’s a fucking Nihilist.
If he admitted to this in a book, imagine the shit he’s done that he hasn’t come out yet. Ugh.
This dude has dated more underage girls than I have fingers. Why do people continue to look the other way?
How many 20th century rock stars didn’t turn out to be horrible abusers?
Did I really need another reason to hate that band?
Yikes on bikes.
The rest of the band isn’t a whole lot better:
Then, Balzary and Smith jumped into the crowd. Balzary picked up the woman and began to spin her around on his shoulders, while Smith pulled her bathing suit to one side and began to slap her bottom, Grasso said. Officials said Balzary got on top of the woman, asked her to perform a sex act, then began to simulate the act.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/03/17/Two-members-of-Red-Hot-Chili-Peppers-arrested/7434637650000/
having sex with an underage girl twice is bad enough but the fact that he, as a famous person, wrote about it in a book because he knew there would be no reprecussions for him…
Yea, I think that part is the worst. The fact that he still talks about it nonchalantly is gross.
Topic aside, the page break is comedy gold.
Without the cooperation of the victim, there’s likely little law enforcement can do about this. If she doesn’t want him prosecuted, that’s likely that.
She’s 14. I don’t know about back then, but these days, she wouldn’t have much to say about it if there’s corroborating evidence.
BTW, what’s the statute of limitations on statutory rape?
Depends on the State.
To my understanding, that is only true for civil offenses, not criminal ones. Rape is a criminal offense pretty much everywhere, so cooperation of the victim isn’t necessary to prosecute, especially with a confession on a silver platter like that.
Then why hasn’t he been prosecuted? I can’t imagine any DA giving up such an easy win.
People get a little weird in reception towards musicians and the things they do.
Michael Jackson is a glaring example. Sure, he was the butt-end of decades of jokes until the things he’s done with children got out for everyone to know. But still, there are millions of defenders for him who just simply - look past that. Because reasons.
And I am sure if more things came out about the rockstars boomers hail as the ‘last generation of good music’ would look past some of the things they’ve done too.
It’s fucking weird.
These were never substantiated. In fact some children came forward and said that their parents coached them to say these things.
Two takes:
- It’s possible that summering happened but could not be proven.
- It’s possible that nothing happened at all.
The circumstances point more to the latter. I personally believe that a bunch of greedy bastards were after money and had no problem destroying someone’s life in the process.
I don’t think any of the MJ “child abuse” claims were ever substantiated or proven and MJ was acquitted in court. The whole thing looked like a smear campaign to dirty his name due to disputes over the rights to music
Well, mistakes were made, it’s regrettable but understandable.
Reads on
Oh for fucks sake!
Do you really think there are any “rock stars” that did NOT fucked a minor?
Yes of course there are. What a monumentally stupid thing to say.
really? I think you live in a rainbow world. Guess yoi’re a man
Yes, lots of them. Most adult men have no interest in sex with children regardless of the presence of consequences.
I am a woman. a lot of men don’t think 14 is children. You can hate me but I know mine and many other woman experiences in life and I’ll tell you most men woild 100% fuck a 15/16yo easy
So to recap: Your claim is “all rock stars are child molesters” and your proof is “how dare you question that women have bad experiences with men!”
Every woman remembers the day they turned 18 and suddenly so many adult men started showing interest.
Well glad you speak for every woman.
Yup. It all starts at 18 not at 11/12.
I’ve talked to so many women who around the age of 14 started getting cat called and essentially mourn their childhood innocence from that moment on. It’s really sad.
14? Try 11/12.
But 17 and 354 days, no
Gotta draw the line somewhere
Seriously. I wouldn’t be surprised if rock stars in the 80s bragged about how many teen girls they fucked on tv. And then everyone watching would nod along and think “yes, of course. That is what rock stars do.”
This is just a big fucking lol of a comment.
It’s always the ones you most suspect
Oh, and besides that, I’m only fourteen
So we had sex one more time
Yeah at first it was him having sex unknowingly with a 14-yo. But dude had sex with her again after learning she was 14 and wrote a song about it. Wtf
You don’t unknowingly have sex with a 14yo. I don’t think I’ve met any that could pass for an adult. You have to be at least complacent with having sex with minors for that to happen and you not at least consider that they’re too young.
I’ve known a bunch of 14-yos who manages to get into bars and to buy alcohol even from state alcohol stores where they’re really strict because people thought they were (at least) 18-yo. A 14-yo managing to get people to think they are 18 (or whatever the age of consent was there at the time) isn’t the hard to believe thing about this story imo, but with the situation described here, the scrutiny over someone’s age might’ve not been all that thorough.
Having sex with her again and writing a song about it after knowing she is 14 though, what the fuck
Yo I got hit on by a granny…
Its forgivable that a 20 year old might accidentally end up in this situation, not having realised that she was only 14 until she said so…
But you know what a normal person does when they realise they just accidentally had sex with someone underage?
They take them back home to their family and apologise profusely. They don’t have sex with them a second time round! That truly is some child predator behaviour right there.
Should have been a massive red flag when he found out she attends a catholic girls school… “Student at a catholic girls school” does not at all say “this is a fully grown adult woman” in any language. That didn’t give him any pause at all, so I’m not that surprised when a paragraph later he is explicitly told she is underage and his only real concern is getting caught by the chief of police father…
I mean those schools have 18 year olds and most classes will have at least one person who’s 19 when they graduate. A 20 year old starting a relationship with someone in those ages isn’t exactly alarming.
That’s not at all what happened here though.
Ok, what? When you were 20, how many 14 year olds did you interact with?
I can count exactly 1. It was my (ex) sister in law.
In my work, plenty. And I can fairly confidently say that telling someone’s age by their looks isn’t always easy.
Which is to say that it isn’t an entirely unrealistic scenario, and could be forgiven if one actually tried to remedy the situation upon learning of their mistake, rather than going for a second turn (yuck)
Heaps, I played magic the gathering. Didn’t fuck any kids tho.
Were you a popular musician at the time too?
the only thing that’s stopping you behaving like this is that you don’t have the opportunity?
???
why does it matter that Kiedis is a popular musician?
Because popular musicians meet a lot more people than your average person. Did you even read the preceding comment??
Ok, what? When you were 20, how many 14 year olds did you interact with?
I can count exactly 1. It was my (ex) sister in law.
A lot of people in this thread are self- reporting without realizing.
Lol yep
