Jim DeRogatis, the man who broke the R. Kelly child pornography story and was at the eye of the storm of the media frenzy over the trial after refusing to testify, came out with a Chicago Sun-Times column today giving his definitive opinion on the ruling. With a semi-religious theme, he focused on R. Kelly asking for forgiveness in his songs, and concluded the article with a lyric from his 2002 song "Been Around the World": "God gonna judge me/The same that he judge you." DeRogatis also noted that while the trial narrowly focused on the child pornography case, R. Kelly has a long, shameful track record of preying on underage girls.

DeRogatis' own role in the investigation is not set in black and white either. As the Chicago Reader noted, journalism on child pornography is so legally dangerous that DeRogatis was forced to plead the Fifth the avoid prosecution himself for even possessing the tape. Nonetheless, there's DeRogatis bookending the saga of the R. Kelly sex tape, 6 years after the story first broke.