Posted on 10/07/2023 4:57:18 PM PDT by RandFan
In his lifetime, millions knew Jimmy Savile as an eccentric TV personality. To some, he was Saint Jimmy, who raised £40m ($48 million) for charity. But it has transpired that he was also one of the UK's most prolific sexual predators.
Savile was one of Britain's biggest stars, a larger-than-life character who was known for tea-time TV favourites like Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It as well as stints on BBC Radio 1.
At the same time, it later came to light, he was exploiting his status to prey on hundreds of people - girls and boys, men and women, but mostly vulnerable young females.
He assaulted and raped them in television dressing rooms, hospitals, schools, children's homes and his caravan.
The scale of Savile's crimes was "to the best of our knowledge unprecedented in the UK", according to a report into his activities titled Giving Victims A Voice, which was published in 2013.
The abuse was thought to have begun in the mid-1940s, when he was in his late teens or early twenties, and lasted until 2009, two years before his death.
"It is now clear that Savile was hiding in plain sight and using his celebrity status and fund-raising activity to gain uncontrolled access to vulnerable people across six decades," the Giving Victims A Voice report concluded.
He was, the report said, "a mainly opportunistic individual who used his celebrity status as a powerful tool to coerce or control them, preying on the vulnerable or star-struck for his sexual gratification".
Another report, The Dame Janet Smith review, identified 72 victims of Savile in connection with his work at the BBC, including eight who were raped. Eleven of his victims were younger than 12 years old.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
And the BBC AND NHS knew about him. It was an open secret.
Yes. They admit it in the profile (click excerpt to read more) it’s quite long
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I remember seeing him on TV in the UK back in the 1980s. Thought he looked creepy then.
Same here.
When I was younger I was disturbed by the unflattering allusions to homosexuality and perversion in Agatha Christy novels. I didn’t realize she was reflecting upper class Britain accurately.
Johnny Rotten was right all along.
Yep!
The freak caused a lot of damage and was not punished in this life which is a sign that God left him alone and watched him fall into the abyss screaming.
Raised 48M for charity. “for the kids”.
Shriners.
There used to be a joke they would tell that both Thatcher & Savile screwed miners/minors.
The BBC is the last organization that should be talking about Savile. They created the monster.
Johnny’s a good guy. I really felt for him losing his wife, who he took care of for years when she got Alzheimers.
Archie was right about a lot of things.
Could have an “Archie was right” thread…. Educational.
They do knight a lot of them.
The British media class are above caring about such things.
If the BBC were privately owned, they would have been sued out of existence.
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