he calls them his pets. have you ever had sex with anyone under the age of 17? no, no. never? no. r kelly chose not to testify. in this cbs interview before his arrest, he desperately tried to win over public opinion. i didn t do this stuff! this is not me! i m fighting for my bleep life. y all killing me with thi ican t even. robert. 30 years of my career! the disgraced artist now faces a minimum of 15 years in prison. this has been an emotional trial for the women and men who have come forward. not only has the jury heard them, they have believed them. it is another victory for survivors of sexual assault and the entire #metoo movement. professor marci hamilton is the founder of child usa a non profit working to improve the child abuse laws in the us. she gave me her reaction
to improve the child abuse laws in the united states. it is great to have you on the programme. in the first instance, what was your reaction to the verdict? oh, i was thrilled reaction to the verdict? oh, i was thrilled and reaction to the verdict? oh, i was thrilled and thank - reaction to the verdict? oh, i was thrilled and thank you i reaction to the verdict? oh, i was thrilled and thank you so much for having me. this is the moment that every survivor dreams of. actualjustice. dreams of. actual justice. watching dreams of. actualjustice. watching their perpetrator go to jail. this was the right result. so many victims but it was also, we learned a lot of lessons through this trial. yeah, you know, the first allegation against our kelly was such a long time ago now. 1996. why does it take so long to prosecute a child sex abuse case? ~ . . ., ., , , case? according to the best science the case? according to the best science the average - case? according to the best science the
coming. we are talking about 100,000 this year alone. that is huge number. we are just getting national media just coming to this story that has been taking place inaries for the last few weeks. it is raising a question about whether this situation in arizona and handled by authority is violating state child abuse laws. what is the implication of that? there is a couple of questions here. if we are talking about the unaccompanied minors in the custom and border approximate trol protection from the time they are shipped and that is outside of the scope of the law. there seems to be belief among the others shipped pie bus and taking the families away and bussing them to phoenix and tucson. are there uncompanied minors in
relates to children but other assaults on college campuses. the reporting, the prosecution and prevention that takes place. but it s important we keep an eye on the ball here. this isn t about a school or football program. this is making sure we do everything possible to punish severely the predators and make sure we do it first and foremost. secondly to do everything we can to focus on the victims and do what we can to help them. there are a lot of steps we can take. a lot of this will happen at the state and local level. we can play a constructive role and fixing the child abuse laws is one of the ways to do it. we are nearing the deadline. next week is the deadline for the super committee. now we have senator reid and the speaker of the house getting together. is this a signal that things are