The tip of the goddamned ghastly iceberg that will be revealed to be institutionalized pedophilia within the halls of the BBC, but more importantly, connecting outward to other locales.. How low will the scandal go, and how big will it grow? The Daily Mail(Entire article, plus video and more background at the link):
Jimmy Savile was given his own keys to high-security Broadmoor mental hospital, it emerged yesterday.
The gold-plated set was presented to the predatory paedophile as a reward for his volunteering, and gave him access to mentally ill patients, it was claimed.
The extraordinary revelation came as NHS chiefs came under mounting pressure to start an inquiry into Savile’s freedom to sexually abuse child patients.
He was given bedrooms or an office at three hospitals, and yesterday more former patients came forward to say he abused them on children’s wards.
There are growing fears NHS bosses turned a blind eye to sick and disabled children being attacked by Savile because he raised so much money for them.
Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire – where nurses warned children to ‘pretend to be asleep’ when the Jim’ll Fix It star came calling – made £40million from his fundraising.
The TV entertainer volunteered as a porter to gain access to children recovering from cancer and brain surgery, and sexually assault them. He said hospital chiefs ‘realised I might be useful to them’ and boasted he was ‘untouchable’.
A former Stoke Mandeville nurse yesterday claimed managers were ‘well aware’ that Savile – given a bedroom at the hospital for two decades – was a child abuser. Holly, from Dover, told LBC radio: ‘Jimmy Savile molested one of the patients on the paediatric unit. He was not supposed to go on any children’s wards unaccompanied.
‘Stoke Mandeville were well aware of what was going on. For them to say now they knew nothing is complete lies. They knew. It makes me so angry. He raised all this money for them. There has been a massive cover-up.’
The National Association for People Abused in Childhood said it had been ‘inundated’ with calls about Savile. Chief executive Pete Saunders said: ‘Two this morning told us that not only did Jimmy Savile abuse them at Stoke Mandeville but a doctor did as well.’
Labour leader Ed Miliband called for every institution connected to Savile to hold a ‘far-reaching investigation’ into ‘who knew what when about what was happening and why nothing was done about it’.
Tory MP Rob Wilson, an aide to the Health Secretary, demanded an independent inquiry into the scandal at Stoke Mandeville.
Mr Wilson said: ‘It is being alleged that his money-raising made him untouchable, despite the information that circulated about his behaviour. It must be a priority that the hospital answers these concerns as soon as possible before huge damage is done to its reputation.’
He added: ‘I am astonished to learn Savile had keys to Broadmoor, one of the highest security hospitals in the country. From what we’ve learned he should have been locked inside the institution, not been given the keys.’
One Broadmoor victim claimed the Top Of The Pops presenter put his hand up her nightdress when she was 17 after walking in on a group of girls watching TV in 1969.
Alison Pink said: ‘I felt absolutely disgusting afterwards, like I had been used as a piece of meat for his sexual gratification.’
She said Savile kept his own mobile home in the grounds of the Berkshire hospital, where patients include Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.
‘He definitely had his own keys – they were gold, especially for him. Both male and female patients thought it was very strange. He could access any of the girls’ bedrooms.’
Alison, who has since had a sex change and is now Steven George, 60, of Portsmouth, added: ‘He made very good friends with patients on the male ward, which was full of sex offenders.’
Broadmoor hospital did not deny Savile had been given keys, but said the allegations related to a time when it was run as a ‘separate, somewhat isolated’ organisation. (What the fuck?)A spokesman said volunteer access and activity at Broadmoor was now strictly controlled and the hospital operated ‘within strict child and adult safeguarding guidelines’.
Meanwhile, psychiatric nurse Naomi Stanley told the Guardian that a patient told her she had been frequently abused by the star while she was in hospital in the 1980s.
She said the young woman said Savile had raped her repeatedly near the stage of the theatre at the hospital and that Savile had claimed 'nobody would believe her and he could do what he liked' when she threatened to report him.
The woman told the nurse Savile was 'very forceful' and 'treated her like she was an animal', and the nurse was left with no doubt the woman was extremely distressed by the alleged attacks.
Leeds General Infirmary, where Savile raised also millions of pounds and was given his own office, has declared ‘shock’ at claims he groped vulnerable children recovering from surgery while volunteering as a porter. Two more victims came forward there yesterday.
Thirteen police forces have now taken statements from people claiming they were raped or molested when they were children by the late BBC presenter, who died last October aged 84.
Scotland Yard has branded Savile a ‘predatory sex offender’ who preyed on children as young as 13 for four decades in a nationwide campaign of abuse.
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which is responsible for Stoke Mandeville, said it was supporting the police inquiries and would take further action ‘if their findings suggest that we do need to’. It also said it had advised staff to contact police if they had any concerns.
West London Mental Health Trust, which covers Broadmoor, said it had not received any allegations of abuse from patients, their representatives or from staff, but would co-operate with police if they investigated.
In retrospect, this is one of the creepiest photos I've ever seen. Do you think Frank Bruno wondered why a BBC television star just happened to be hanging out with a serial killer at the time of his visit? Look at Saville's face: Now that's a chilling expression..
More background here: Jimmy Savile sex abuse claims: BBC to launch inquiries, From BBC News itself:
The BBC is to launch two inquiries surrounding sex abuse claims made against Sir Jimmy Savile, director general George Entwistle has announced.
The first into why a BBC Newsnight investigation into Savile was shelved last year will start straight away.
The other into whether culture and practice at the BBC at the time enabled Savile to carry out the sexual abuse of children will wait for police go-ahead.
Police said they had now received 340 potential lines of inquiry.
How could they have not known? Oh, they knew; They just didn't care..
The Sun newspaper said that David Nicolson caught Savile having sex with a young girl in a BBC dressing room.
Mr Nicolson, now 67, is reported to have told managers at the BBC about the alleged incident, but was told: "That's the way it goes."
A BBC spokeswoman said: "We have been disturbed to hear these allegations. All staff past and present who have any information relating to allegations of this kind should raise them with the BBC's internal investigations unit or with the police directly."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he could not understand how [the alleged abuse] had "remained hidden for so long".
"There must have been just so many people who knew what was going on in hospitals, the BBC, maybe in the police," he told BBC Radio 5live.
This scandal has not even begun: This could be the beginning of the biggest sexual scandal we've seen in our lifetime. My guess is that its tentacles will extend across borders to other very powerful institutions. The shock has just begun, babies, and this scandal will be every bit as big as it is sick.
By the way, this is a huuuuuge webbot hit, also.. (Oct.10-quirky--Free download. The first 10 minutes..)
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