R. Kelly Victim: Molested at 12, Called Him 'Daddy'

Reshona Landfair, now 42, revealed shocking details in the memoir “Who’s Watching Shorty?” released on February 3, 2026. According to media reports, she was the same anonymous Jane Doe from the child pornography tape that featured in the first case against Kelly.

Landfair claims that the musician entered her Chicago family’s social circle through her aunt, R&B singer Sparkle, and methodically involved her starting at age 12. She states that Kelly insisted she call him “Daddy” in private and established total control over her life, career, and communication, often keeping her in cramped spaces and restricting even basic needs.

“He was always ‘Daddy,’” Landfair writes. “Robert deliberately made me a victim when I was a child. I was zombified by Robert and became his sexual slave. Robert drove me to suicidal thoughts. Being me was terrible. I gave up my family for him.”

Her account comes years after Kelly’s conviction. The 59-year-old singer, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was found guilty in federal courts on charges including racketeering, sex trafficking, and production of child pornography. He is serving sentences of 30 and 20 years in prison.

Landfair testified as a protected Jane Doe at the 2022 trial in Chicago. “He gave me a dirty look,” she says of encountering Kelly in court. “That look confirmed that I was sitting in the right place. I thought, ‘How dare you, after everything you did to me, still think I owe you something?’”

In her memoir, Landfair also describes a chain of institutional failures — from family members who she says were in “complete, naive denial” to authorities and the media who revealed her identity and played the tape in open court. “To the public, I was a laughingstock. I was never seen as a victim, so I didn’t see myself as a victim either,” she said.

For years, Landfair tried to hide under the alias Chon to avoid recognition associated with the tape. But, she says, the shadow of Kelly’s abuse followed her in every job, friendship, and relationship. “There is no job I got where this wasn’t at the forefront. There is no relationship where this wasn’t at the forefront,” she says.

Now Landfair works at a school health center in Chicago and runs the nonprofit Project Refine, which mentors young women. She says publishing the memoir is the final step in reclaiming her story and name. “I was afraid to say my name and be myself,” she said. “I created Chon, and I lived under that name. But today I am here as Reshona.”