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great_badir -> RE: Allegations of Jimmy Saville (11/10/2012 1:28:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: OPEN YOUR EYES
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ORIGINAL: UTB
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ORIGINAL: OPEN YOUR EYES
I am getting slightly skeptical about the amount of stories which are emanating out of some of these papers and victims.
How so?
Because you get the feeling that Jimmy Saville was acting these sick-twisted things 24 seven.
And 'if' he was what the f*ck were the police or investigators doing?,jack-sh*t by all accounts.
I would not put it past one or two of these stories being over-dramatized,mainly because I don't trust the Media.
And,rether you like it or not,every accused has the right to defend himself/herself,but J.S cant because he's dead.
But you can also look on the fact that these stories are coming out because he's dead because he cant defend himself,because if he did he possibly would have been let-off,dependent on the facts/evidence of these accusations.
I think the sheer number of people from all walks of life "coming out" makes it pretty much impossible for at least some of the claims not to be true, and we are now FAR beyond giving him the benefit of the doubt, especially as HIS family (as Super Hans commented above) have gone from outright horror and denial to an admirable decision in the circumstances.
Yeah, okay, you always get the odd prick who makes false claims for "a laugh", but there are simply too many unrelated claims in this case, especially when you consider the latest "evidence" from both patients and staff at Stoke Mandeville.
As for what the police were doing - as elab said, Savile probably felt he was above the law and may have even been considered as such during the peak of his career. He DID have friends in high places and most of these alleged abuses happened during a time when such things were not discussed as much and a lot less understood - both the public and the press were a lot less informed and the police were, probably, less well equipped to deal with it, and so most of his victims were probably too scared to come forward or (in some cases I'm sure) simply too young to understand what was happening to them.
For every abuse that does get reported, there are several that don't for years and some that will never get reported. When a high profile celeb like Savile who, yes, had done lots for charity and good causes and was basically THE face of "looking after the country's children" (no euphemistic innuendo intended) in the 70s and 80s, you can imagine and understand why so many victims kept quiet for so long.
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