THE joint report by the Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC into sexual abuse allegations against BBC presenter Jimmy Savile paints a picture of a man who shamelessly used his celebrity status to gain access to vulnerable children and adults.
THE joint report by the Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC into sexual abuse allegations against BBC presenter Jimmy Savile paints a picture of a man who shamelessly used his celebrity status to gain access to vulnerable children and adults.
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The scale and scope of his activities across six decades were truly horrifying. As Scotland Yard spokesman Peter Spinder put it: "He groomed the nation."
His youngest victim was eight, the oldest 46. Of the 34 people he raped, 28 were children. Though mostly not known to each other, the weight of repetition in the accounts of those who have come forward corroborate each other to the extent that the report's authors use the term "victims" rather than "complainants".
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Jimmy Savile and the silence of the innocents
THE joint report by the Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC into sexual abuse allegations against BBC presenter Jimmy Savile paints a picture of a man who shamelessly used his celebrity status to gain access to vulnerable children and adults.
The scale and scope of his activities across six decades were truly horrifying. As Scotland Yard spokesman Peter Spinder put it: "He groomed the nation."
His youngest victim was eight, the oldest 46. Of the 34 people he raped, 28 were children. Though mostly not known to each other, the weight of repetition in the accounts of those who have come forward corroborate each other to the extent that the report's authors use the term "victims" rather than "complainants".
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