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.

  • a1tsca13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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/

    • FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Also left out the part that this was deeply unconsensual and not an excited groupie.

      ‘I think she sustained the injuries by trying to fight them off, when she was slammed to the ground by one of them. The other bruise she sustained to her leg when the other member tried to rip off her bathing suit,’ said beach ranger Sgt. Ray Caruso.

      Disgusting. PSA to never go to a Chilis concert, fuck them.