Jimmy Savile NHS Abuse Victims Aged Five to 75
June 26th, 2014Via: BBC:
Ex-BBC DJ Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted victims aged five to 75 in NHS hospitals over decades of unrestricted access, investigators say.
He abused patients in their beds, in corridors and offices, reviews into his conduct on NHS premises found.
The reports cover 28 hospitals including Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised on behalf of the government and NHS, saying victims were “let down badly”.
Mr Hunt told the Commons there was a “deep sense of revulsion” over the findings, which “shake our country to the core”.
He described Savile as a “sickening and prolific” abuser who carried out attacks over five decades.
Victims of the “opportunistic sexual predator” included patients, visitors and staff, the reports say.
Savile, a Radio 1 DJ who also presented the BBC’s Top Of The Pops and Jim’ll Fix It, died aged 84 in October 2011 – a year before allegations that he had sexually abused children were broadcast in an ITV documentary.
The reports on Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor are the most detailed. They explain how he was allowed unsupervised access to vulnerable patients, with a failure to question the risks of his unconventional and promiscuous lifestyle.
The Leeds investigation found:
Sixty people came forward to say they had been abused between the ages of five and 75, including staff
The offences ranged from lewd remarks to sexual assault and three cases of rape and took place between 1962 and 2009
Only nine victims told members of staff. There were a further eight female victims who met Savile at the hospital, but were not patients
Savile had a well-known fixation with the dead and the report contains allegations he posed for photographs and performed sex acts on corpses in the hospital mortuary
While there is no way to verify the claim, Dr Sue Proctor – who led the Leeds inquiry – said there is no doubt controls on access to the mortuary were “lax”
A number of organisational failures over the years enabled Savile to continue unchallenged
These included weak systems to protect patients, poor complaints systems and leadership that lacked curiosity
There is no evidence reports of abuse were communicated to senior managers
There is evidence the head porter, Charles Hullighan, played a central role in the introduction of a staff volunteer at the radio station to Savile – who the DJ then raped.
The situation allowed someone “as manipulative as Savile to thrive and continue his abusive behaviour unchecked for years”, it said.
If ever there is a literal and metaphorical symbol of the nature of Establishment depravity it is this man. He was one of the most “cherished” TV performers for the last 40 years and permanently in the public eye. Yet he was a sexual psychopath – another Dutroux – who was able to get away with the most blatant abuse because our culture has been hollowed out to such a degree that pathology of every variety has slowly become normalised. It’s no wonder that sexual abuse from those in power has such a cast iron impunity.
And once again, we have a parade of “celebrity” cases giving the illusion of redress which always happens when one of the handlers gets outed. There’s a media flurry of interest and righteous indignation before the dust settles and a few minor pederasts/paedophiles are sent down and everyone feels justice has been done. Of course, the same Establishment systems that give rise to such networks are still in place and are continuing their abhorrent abuse behind closed doors as they have done for centuries. These are the real predators. But you won’t find many people “coming forward” talking about their abuse because most are pre-pubescent children who are among the steady supply of the disappeared.
And so it goes on…
Leadership that lacked curiosity? What does that mean? That they were complicit in knowing about it, but not doing anything?
That they were complicit in knowing about it, but not doing anything?
That’s it.
The extent of involvement of high ranking members of the government and elites with this will never come out.
They can just build up Savile into a sort of Hannibal Lecteresque caricature, operating on his own.
Don’t worry, though. The lone nut monster is dead. Problem gone. Nothing more to see here. Sweet dreams.
I have this crazy theory that a pedophile, serial rapist with a documented history of necrophila that includes not just screwing corpses but posing them and himself for photos and removing prosthetic eye parts from them for souvenirs that he proudly wore for jewelry wasn’t just a pervert: His quirks point towards him being a serial killer.
Additionally, his known association with the queen’s sexually deviant uncle indicates he enjoyed a level of impunity that could only come from a frightened royal family that didn’t want public exposure.
People as crazy as Jimmy Seville don’t find a level of satisfaction in their depraved behaviors. They descend into deeper and deeper evil. Someone needs to investigate missing persons reports.
@ steve holmes
Found this sentence in a couple of places online:
He believes that the bundles wrapped in sheets Jimmy Savile took to hospital incinerators were body parts.