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Originally Posted by cassieparis

Just because their abuse wasn't general knowledge doesn't mean that these women (and interestingly many men who will not come forward) didn't tell anyone.
His name and the names of others connected to him have been recalled continuously over the decades. His victims have been telling people in positions of power for many many years. Some who have known of these accusations have avoided him some have dismissed him and made jokes about his activities. Jimmy Saville remained notorious amongst Social Service and child protection circles for decades because his name just kept cropping up time and time again. There is a vast difference between keeping schtoom and being silenced by dismissal and an air of the crimes committed against them being utterly and completely inconsequential and perhaps fantasy.

I am not saying that his victims were silent on a personal level. Although victims of abuse are often encourage by skeptics abuse deniers and disbelievers to shut up. Particularly if those in power who knew of the accusations did nothing to protect future victims.

I am saying that few people did anything about it and in some cases covered it up at the level of media and press. Silencing these victims at this level.

Now that Jimmy Saville and those he pimped for are dead his victims are being encouraged at a media level to speak up. There are few left of any consequence to prosecute. How convenient.
This type of crime will happen time and time again and children won't tell because it's their word against their cunning adult abuser. It's just easier to say your piece when their dead and can't hurt you anymore.

Nah. still don't 'buy it'.

Perhaps the reason all these folk kept 'schtoom'.... was because their were PAID to keep schtoom.......... stranger things have happened in life. and it is SO VERY EASY to lay the blame on one party, having cashed the cheque, having banked the money: when the offending party is dead, making food for the worms and cannot defend themselves.


If those that were abused felt to bad about it: why keep their mouths shut unti the man died? Possibly: just possibly: becuase they were paid to keep their mouths shut, but Mr JS isn't here to prove that?


there's a little thought for you....................