Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story

One thing to bear in mind is that mostly these horrific offences occurred in the past, where they do things differently. There's a little clip where he obviously assaults a young girl while recording Top of the Pops. It was just laughed off, nowadays he would be fired and in court. The recording is in the program, it there for all to see yet nothing happened as far as I know.

I met Savile twice when he used to help on the tea counter at Stoke Mandeville hospital. He was very creepy always touching women when he spoke to them. Yuk.

I'm wondering who did actually like him.
I thought he was grotesque, and I was a child, and my mum couldn't stand him.
I think secretly, nobody could stand him.

I couldn’t stand him either. Boasting about his conquests with young girls was an effective smoke screen though. He was so unappealing we just thought, Who are you kidding?

I know someone who lived in Scarborough many years ago - Savile had a lot of connections there.
When her children were looking for p/t / summer jobs, a number of people warned her not to allow them to work for certain people, all connected to Savile.

He lived in a little cottage around the corner from my ex in his later years, and everyone in the village hated him.
(Savile, not the ex )

not that long ago the idea that a man liked young girls was viewed as almost funny, akin to drinking a bit too much, being a bit of a lad, a rogue.
nobody considered what the young girls thought about it, almost as if they were just an inanimate foil to the rogue's habits.
women didn't matter much, and girls mattered even less.

Welbeck - The chief constable of Greater Manchester made a formal apology the the women who were victims of the grooming gangs as children. This was in the 1990’s - social workers, beat bobbies, health workers were all raising organised child sexual abuse with senior managers, no effective action taken. Children of 12 ‘making poor lifestyle choices’. They were coerced, terrified, threatened with guns. They were criminalised. One was convicted of driving unqualified, without a licence - I can’t recall if she was also under the influence. Her abusers men I their 40’s in the car with her. She’s barred from pursuing a career in social care as a result.

yes, complete injustice. talk about adding insult to injury. and labelling them by that oxymoron, child prostitute. victim blaming, supporting the perps.
on another site, a person argues that women of age 12 or 13 ought to be able to consent to sexual relationships. women. of 12 or 13.

welbeck the idea of girls of 12 and 13 being able to consent to sex was promoted publicly by a group who were trying to make paedophilia legal. It was part of the Mary Whitehouse programme on recently. Of course she was fighting them tooth and nail, she certainly had her good points. I can't remember the name of the group but the paedos were actually saying in public how it should be legal! You really can't believe some of the things that went on.

I watched that episode of the Mary Whitehouse programme too Chestnut and was astonished that the 2 paedophiles were so open about their sexual attraction to young children and how they truly believed that children should be encouraged to participate in their depravity. They made my skin crawl. <not envy>

Peadophiles regularly defend their abuse by claiming the child enjoyed it, sought it out, seduced them, they were lovers etc. Chestnut, it will have been The Paedophile Information Exchange .

Makes you wonder how many of those in high office at the time actually sympathised with him or were that way inclined themselves. You used to hear about various judges being like that and dismiss it but maybe there actually was some truth in it. I totally wouldn’t be surprised.

Well the Paedophile Information Exchange were openly promoting themselves at that time. They were hitching a ride on the sexual revolution, hoping that even their depravity would be deemed acceptable. There was so much sexual freedom around at the time they probably thought it was a good time to make a move. Well it seems everything else became acceptable but not that. Following the sexual revolution the only two things that did not enter the realm of 'normal behaviour' were rape and paedophilia. And so we are where we are today.