Secular Café: Police report out on Jimmy Savile

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Police report out on Jimmy Savile Jan 11th 2013, 16:11 Jimmy Savile, who died in 2011, was a very popular entertainer. He appeared a great deal on the BBC and did a lot of fundraising for various hospitals and volunteered to work as a porter at some of them. This latter work achieved an almost saintly reputation for him. Since his death allegations emerged against him of sexual abuse of children. See this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19921658 Now a police investigation has reported on his misdeeds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20981611 Quote: Children as young as eight were abused by Jimmy Savile, a report detailing 50 years of allegations has revealed. The Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC report also added Wheatfields Hospice in Leeds to the list of places where the former TV presenter abused girls. Some 214 crimes were recorded across 28 police force areas, including 34 of rape or penetration, police said. They say the accounts are a "compelling picture of widespread sexual abuse by a predatory sex offender". Most attention has been on the scandal at the BBC, which resulted in the resignation of the Director General (CEO). But even more worrying to me are the allegations of abuse at hospitals and children's home and the facilities made available to him at some of these institutions. I hope they will never again allow any such easy access to people who aren't working there.

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