“Representations of black girlhood in the media and popular culture suggest that black girls face a different set of rules when it comes to sex, innocence, and blame,” the consequences of the sexualization of Black girls can be seen through the 2004 trial of R. Kelly. The immediate response from the public cleared R. Kelly of any wrongdoing while subsequently blaming the young girl for her abuse. One respondent to a "Village Voice" article claimed that she wasn't disturbed by the video because in her words, “It wasn't like she was new to the act. respondent heard shevictim worked it like most of 30 something-year-old friends have yet to learn how to do.” This desensitization is directly linked to a music industry—and subsequent fans—who value the artist over their potential victims.” Instead of being correctly labeled as victims these women are instead turned into “groupies, hoochies, and chickenheads.” One of the jurors on the R. Kelly case noted that he believed the defense because her body “appeared to developed.” Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins acknowledged that  “this harmful and skewed reasoning reflects a national troubling tendency to view black adolescent females as sexually savvy and therefore responsible themselves for the sexualization and exploitation of their bodies.”