Thank you Isa and Sheik, I knew I couldn't be the only one!
But - complaints of rape against children and we're being given the old innocent- until- proven- guilty line? Whit?????? And he’s dead so he can’t defend the accusations? OMG then, that Poor Fred West! He was never brought to trial either and yet people insist on believing he was guilty! How very medieval of them.
These victims deserve their full story to be told, and to be apologised to, and to be assured that it wasn't their fault. And what’s wrong with them being compensated out of Savile’s millions for the abuse they suffered? Quite a few of them did try to tell their stories but they were disbelieved, mocked or even punished. They were young and extremely vulnerable, many of them from children’s homes or approved schools.
This isn’t about a witch hunt or a ‘media frenzy’ – it’s about ensuring the Savile legacy results in a major rethink and overhaul of police and CPS responses to reports of child sexual abuse. The CPS were aware of many allegations in several towns and cities yet decided there was insufficient evidence. This is shocking!
And it has happened too many times before. Ian Huntley was questioned over eight sexual assaults on young girls and the CPS decided each time there was not enough evidence for a court case. He went on to murder those two poor 10-year-old girls. I am sick of hearing awful things regarding these cases – in the recent Rochdale scandal, police claimed a young girl had ‘allowed herself’ to be sexually abused on so many occasions and a judge didn’t even jail a guy who sexually assaulted a 7 year-old girl because he said ‘she initiated sexual contact by flirting with him’ – Dear God!
So I think it is right to declare war on Savile, not a war against a dead man who can no longer do any harm, but against the police and the rest of the criminal justice system who appear to keep getting it wrong. And the Savile case is a good place to start.