Jimmy Savile investigation: Five victims from Devon & Cornwall area

“Amount of consecutive New Years Eve celebrations at the Prime Ministers official residence (Chequers) attended by Jimmy Savile? Eleven.

No, not powerful at all.....”

“Charlie- typical wavering about on opinion-trying to match the feel of others on the board.

There are very complex psychological processes that occur when a child is abused. They are often not believed if they tell adults- I mean look at your venal and denying comments about this abuse now-this culture of denial trickles down to children. So you are sat at home shooting your mouth off about the Savile case-your children are listening to you dismiss it all- if anything happened to them - would they confidently come to you?


Before some complete and utter cretin mentions the 'culture of the seventies'...it has never been okay to sexually molest and rape children, nor do men who are not paedophiles suddenly start touching kids because everyone's doing it. Paedophilia is a particular paraphilia that you have-or don't have. The entertainment industry-with all the glamour and power-has always been full of it, and the men who were doing this to children at the BBC in the seventies were doing it because that is their make up-not because of opportunity. Savile was a procurer of children for others outside of the entertainment industry, and that particular s'''t has yet to hit the fan.

Savile was what happens when power collides with vulnerability.”

“Wow, and they were happy to openly discuss this with you were they? I'm amazed, since most parents wouldn't do any such thing. Come on Charlie, we all know you too well. You're making this up aren't you?”

“And I know for a fact that some parents in that pervert schoolteacher case I mentioned didn't want to make a fuss because their abused kids were happy and had no idea they'd been abused, so they didn't want to risk mentally scarring their kids for life by getting the police and social services involved.
Were they right or wrong not to make a fuss? Who knows?”

“Trouble is, Charlie, if you'd gone to the police you'd probably have ended up jailed for harassment in some unbelievable miscarriage of justice that you just couldn't make up.”

“About 30 years ago when I lived up north there were rumours that a middleaged male teacher at the local primary school had been touching pupils inappropriately, but apparently no parent had made a formal complaint, so I wrote to the headmistress and told her of the rumours and left it with her to investigate.
Within a few months the school had been closed down and turned into a community hall, I don't know if the teacher was ever prosecuted or whether he got a job at another school. Perhaps the headmistress and local education authority were covering up for him to avoid a scandal, I don't know.
The moral is COMPLAIN, it's the only way to get things done.
PS- with hindsight I should have gone straight to the police with the rumours.”

“I think some of you guys need to read the full report that came out on Friday. It details at least three cases where the CPS believed a prosecution was possible. But the officers dealing with all three complaints failed to inform the individual complainants that they were not alone. For some reason all three declared that they would not give evidence in court as they believed they were the only one complaining and so would not be taken seriously, due to the Police advising them of this!
"If one of my kids came home and told me.......You say?
Therein lies the problem. Most of these kids were in care, so it was the state that was their parent and it was the state that failed them!
Indeed some of these care homes during the 70's&80's have been exposed as not a lot more than meat markets for disgusting rich perverts!

I started this post calm and now my blood is boiling! Hence the over use of exclamation marks!”

“So let's just re-cap, all these had received complaints about Savile's behaviour over the years-
The police
The BBC
The Hospitals where he worked
Some parents knew he was at it.
But still nothing was done about him, it's a funny old world..”

“Anyone and everyone is saying they were abused by Jimmy Savile. The guy is not alive to defend himself. Why didn't these hundreds of 'Victims' claim when he was alive?
It's a bit late now!”

“i think this reeks of something called the bandwagon,ie jumping on it!!”