Jimmy Savile Report
January 11, 2013 by staff
Jimmy Savile Report, It doesn’t say ‘here are the people who made mistakes’. It doesn’t say ‘this is how it happened’. Most importantly, it doesn’t say ‘this is how to stop it happening again’ What do those words mean? Not much, if you were a victim of Jimmy Savile’s six decades of sex attacks at 13 hospitals, a hospice, children’s homes, BBC roadshows and TV studios.
Someone’s believed you, at last, but that’s all you’re getting. That and a series of spokesmen making sincere apologies about how distressed they were about something they didn’t do.
Today’s NSPCC and Met Police joint report detailing 214 crimes, including 34 rapes, across 28 police forces by a pervert who groomed the entire nation does not tell us much new. He was a horrible man, he had lots of victims, no-one stopped him.
It doesn’t say ‘here are the people who made mistakes’. It doesn’t say ‘this is how it happened’. Most importantly, it doesn’t say ‘this is how to stop it happening again’.
Because even though this report admits that had the victims been taken more seriously Savile could have been prosecuted while he was still alive, it won’t change anything.
Victims in 2012 are already taken more seriously than they were in 1976, and someone who’s alive can defend themselves. Whether guilty or innocent, their lawyers can massage away charges simply because of the amount of time that has passed.
The sad truth is that if there is another Savile at large today he too would get away with it.
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