Jimmy Savile was one of Britain’s biggest stars ”” and, allegedly, one of its worst sexual predators. Now the nation is asking whether there was a link between one and the other.
Was this man at the heart of the nation’s popular culture a product of the permissive 1960s and ’70s, or do the conditions that allegedly let him get away with repeated child sex abuse still exist, even as awareness of the problem is more widespread?
“We’re kidding ourselves if we think it is all hunky dory now, but obviously it was more lax,” said Sarah Nelson, a child abuse expert at Edinburgh University. “The culture among disc jockeys at the time allowed a license you wouldn’t get now.”
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(AP) Jimmy Savile child sex abuse scandal puts British society on trial
Jimmy Savile was one of Britain’s biggest stars ”” and, allegedly, one of its worst sexual predators. Now the nation is asking whether there was a link between one and the other.
Was this man at the heart of the nation’s popular culture a product of the permissive 1960s and ’70s, or do the conditions that allegedly let him get away with repeated child sex abuse still exist, even as awareness of the problem is more widespread?
“We’re kidding ourselves if we think it is all hunky dory now, but obviously it was more lax,” said Sarah Nelson, a child abuse expert at Edinburgh University. “The culture among disc jockeys at the time allowed a license you wouldn’t get now.”
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