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THROUGHOUT EACH OF the 28 reports into Jimmy Savile’s abuse at hospitals in the UK, one theme repeatedly emerges: how staff ignored and, in some cases, enabled him.
Savile, described as a “prolific sexual predator, paedophile and rapist” was allowed to enter and leave the hospitals whenever he wanted due to his celebrity. He worked as a voluntary porter at one hospital for 30 years whenever he felt like it, making “unannounced visits at any time of the day or night”.
The report into Leeds General Infirmary found that there was little evidence of challenge to his whereabouts. Instead, he had access to everywhere – including car parking space for his vehicles and overnight parking of his camper van where he raped at least two victims.
Many of the victims report how they tried to tell staff members but were brushed off.
One victim told investigators how she had told a nurse after Savile molested her as she recovered from an operation on her spine. The nurse shrugged her shoulders and walked away.
One staff member at the hospital was told by a Matron not to report an incident to the police because the hospital didn’t want any scandal.
Another described how her colleagues said “Oh no, not again” after Savile stopped her in a corridor and assaulted her.
Many of the victims who spoke to staff were either staff members or grown adults. Few of the children he abused told anybody about what happened. Some told their parents and were often told to never speak about what had happened, or were simply not believed.
As well as documenting what the victims went through, the reports also detail the difficulties they had in being believed. Some of the examples:
They must have been. Obviously it wasn’t the first time that it was done, it was seamless
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If there are people alive who withheld evidence or assisted in his crimes they need to be brought before the courts.
Or the gallows!
I am sure there is a lot more people alive still who committed the same sicking crimes as Savile, also I bet they where involved with Savile and knew exactly what was going on, sick sick sick, I think these type of people should be hung in plain sight for people to see, now all you red thumb numnuts can click away an not agree, but I am 100% sure if it happened to your child you would want to pull the string that hangs the sickos
Jimmy Savile was a one man catholic church
Yikes lol I’d be lying if I said I didn’t laugh at that comment.
Spot on Conor.
He’d fit right in there.
In fact he had a few jaunts over to Ireland it seems.
He could be sure that there were plenty of clergy to facilitate his vile needs and plenty of politicians and gate keepers to turn a blind eye in Ireland.
The sick f*****g animals.
The last Magdelane Laundry closed in 1996.
How many of our current politicians drove past these slave camps regularly and said nothing?
As politicians?
As citizens?
As human beings?
He was a dirty oul thing!!!
Did you also drive past them and do nothing?
The BBC was his church, DJ Necro-Nonce was merely its chief celebrant!!
I’m sad to say that I didn’t even know they existed until recently Ahippo.
I was a kid during most of those shameful sick times
But you can bet politicians, county councillors, senior civil servants, judges, guards, journalists, and all of our “fine” leaders and protectors knew what they were,
And you can bet that they buried manys the complaint and report about them sick places and clerical child abuse,
just like Saville’s enablers did.
Dig him up and burn him
His family seemingly had him dug up in the dead of night, incinerated and his headstone removed.
His estate is going to have to compensate his victims..
John Bawn
I almost feel sorry for people like you… Almost !!!
Loosen up Glen , it an old joke , where have you been .
That’s a sick comment. If you are bored don’t read and take the time to comment
John
There is nothing funny about it !!
I have a wicked sense of humour so believe me when I tell you that your poor attempt at humour is vile
You stay classy john !!!
You make a joke of a children being abused , you are one sick man john
Dig him up and give his bones to the dogs
I wouldn’t do that to a dog willy not even the neighbours dog who won’t shut the f**k up barking !
How come the adult administrator and paediatric doctor to whom this happened to did nothing about it? The administrator, in the 2000′s, told a senior consultant (who said it was silly), and the paediatric doctor just did nothing.
I can’t get my head around this.
It was the Catholic church that stopped them, obviously
Their superiors dismissed their claims and they felt that because he was such a popular figure, that the police and media would do the same.
The staff who knew about his carrying on are as complicit as the evil tramp and should be arrested as well
It’s heinous to think that he went to his grave without any justice whatsoever being secured for his countless victims. This predator even got a title from the Queen!
Mind-boggling too that he had so many enablers and co-conspirators – they ought to be rooted out and charged with conspiracy. I suppose it just goes to show that Irish people weren’t alone in allowing predators in positions of power to target and prey on the most vulnerable, enabled by their silence.
Edwina Curry gave him a job in Broadmoor so she has a case to answer as well.
There was obviously people in positions of power and in the public eye who allowed this to continue, probably for fear of being pointed out if there was any action taken against Saville. They need to be found out now and brought to justice.
Were people in authority in the 60′s/70′s/80′s that f#cking dumb??? I know we can say it was a different era, blah,blah,blah… But,for Christ sake, these people treated these accusations against him as trivial, almost, in a comedic way. Ah sure, it’s only old Jimmy??? These people should be convicted too.
If you were born before 1980 and you werent abused by either Jimmy Saville or the Catholic Church, then consider yourself lucky
I hope that those who enabled him are brought to justice, though I wonder if it will happen?
People ignore stuff every day, stuff they know is wrong, people always have and it seems its part of human nature to ignore stuff.
Its kind of ironic that we jump up and down when the victims kick up and are finally believed.
‘Just their way’ is a sure sign that something is wrong with a persons behaviour but it seems to be easier to ignore it if the victim isnt yourself.
That Saville animal died too soon.
It’s insane how he got away with it for all those years. And scary to think of how many people are willing to shrug off or turn a blind eye to something like that.
I remember a few months before all this broke out,there was a woman on tv in the UK claiming to be his daughter and demanding to be taken seriously,presumably wanting all the fame and money being Jimmy Saville’s daughter would bring. Don’t hear much from her now
Even the dogs on the street knew he was a nonce,
Make you wonder about society in England in the past to allow him get away with his deviant pervert
Behaviour for so long!
It’s the right of any living person to defend themselves. He’s dead, doesn’t mean the victims should just shut up.
The fact is, they couldn’t complain when he was alive, because when they tried, they got shot down. It’s proper order that his memory is being destroyed. It’s the only justice left to these victims now.
Fully agree with your last point about the enablers being brought to justice.
He was one creepy looking ba#tard !
Quite frankly I think this Jimmy Savile story has run it’s course . Getting boring.
When you think of what else is happening in the world .
There’s other abuses happening right now in the world John,
But then we better not talk about those…..we don’t want you to get bored now do we?
There is a lot to be learned from this story. How the f**k could this happen for so long? being the prominent question possibly!!! Especially as it was adults who were also being touched.
Never could stand the look of him, even at the height of his popularity.! It was well documented over the years that he had no “best ” friends and that nobody ever knew the “real” Jimmy Savile. Now we know why!.The more he kept himself to himself the more he got away with.
This means his whole life was dedicated to having illegal sex with whoever or indeed whatever.
What a way to live your life! He had eyes like sharks, nothing behind them.
I just hope that anyone who covered up for him are brought to justice for the sake of those that he did hurt.
People are quick to forget all the good things he did for charity, not to mention that he was a very influential music dj, way ahead of his time.
Hitler did some great things to, introduced a great road network in Germany amongst other things., Should we celebrate him?
What about John Paul ii, he knew all about the sex abuse cases in the 1980′s and 1990′s, should we celebrate him? Oh wait, they are….he’s been fast tracked to saint hood by the catholic church.
What a twisted world we live in
Your choice of hero leaves a lot to be desired Dan!!
He did do a lot of things for charity’s which in turn put the earnings of those efforts to good use but in retrospect I think it’s very clear to be seen now that this was another example of him using his position for his own sick ends. His charity work was the perfect screen from all of his attacks and in carrying out his charity work he had access to so many more potential victims, in which case any “good” that came from them is badly tainted and the true reasons for his intent dubious.
Dan that’s the most absurd post I’ve yet seen in relation to this. It was his very influence that allowed him to get away with this, for this to be permitted by so many people, yet you’re holding it up as a virtue?
He used his influence to sexually assault young boys and girls as well as other vulnerable people such as the disabled. There’s even reports of him engaging in necrophilia and taking trophies from dead people.
I hope you’re never a parent yourself if you’re so willing to sacrifice the innocent to a psychopath who in his spare time did some “good things” under the banner of “charity”.
There was always something about that man that made my skin crawl. An obnoxious vile predator.
First of all I have to preface this by saying that I think that sexual crimes against children are the worst crimes and in the more serious cases or in cases of repeat offenders they should never be allowed out of prison.
However this whole Saville case makes me a little uncomfortable.
In any civilised society a person accused of a crime has the chance to defend themselves in a court of law and has the right to be considered innocent til proven guilty. But this is not the case here. Now I don’t feel sorry for Saville and chances are he is guilty of many of the things he has been accused of but the whole thing is a bit unsavoury to me, he is dead and can’t defend himself which is the right of anyone accused of a crime no matter how appalling that crime may be.
That said the people who worked with him, who knew or suspected the he was doing these things should at least be ashamed of themselves for not coming forward then. If Saville is to be considered guilty without the benefit of a trial then they are guilty for enabling it to happen.
The dead don’t need to defend themselves.They`re dead.He can not be found criminaly guilty but if you consider this case to be a civil one if he were alive today he would be very broke about now. You dont need to prove guilt beyond all reasonable doubt in a civil case. The probability that someone is wrong will do.That is the reason nobody who gained from his estate took a legal challange against it being carved up . That and they are probably good people who wouldn’t want his money anyway.
I know the difference between the burden of proof in civil and legal cases but in both instances the accused is allowed to present evidence in their defence, he obviously hasn’t been in this case.
I do think that he was probably guilty, that’s my personal opinion, but personal opinion counts for nothing and I think that the coverage and nature of this case sets a dangerous precedent. What’s to stop people from claiming wrong doing against any dead rich person in civil courts in the future? I wish he had been tried while still alive and justice could be seen to be done.
The stories indicate that Saville was one sick F**k but everyone knew it and many seemed to worry about their hospital/institution more than the people they were meant to care for. Hopefully we are all learning not to turn a blind eye. There is no comfort for anyone here but a pity he couldn’t have been convicted and left to rot in a prison cell.
He paid hospitals money and was permitted to carry out horrendous sex crimes against children and other vulnerable people.
There are undoubtedly complicit people who haven’t yet escaped punishment by their own demise. Let’s hope some are made accountable.
Investigators were given “macabre accounts” of Savile “acting unacceptably” with dead bodies in the mortuary at Leeds General Infirmary.
Pity you can’t dig the fcuker up and kill him again.
The Lord will look after Saville.
Like he does kids.?
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