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to be more and more outraged by latest Jimmy Savile report?

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Livingtothefull · 01/03/2015 18:15

The more I read, the more I think about it, the more disgusted I am. For anyone who has had a sick and frightened child in hospital (as I have) to read of children being abused in their hospital beds…..that is about as low as it is possible for a human being to sink. Just for that alone I hope he is rotting in hell right now.

And I don't believe for a minute that senior management at SM hospital didn't know what was going on as the report claims. How on earth could they not know? What a disgusting whitewash and a travesty this is. Over £7m of public money spent on a report which concludes nobody is to blame for this??

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Royalsighness · 01/03/2015 18:17

Horrible isn't it :(

Files are "lost" and reports are mysteriously lost in fires so the only people who end up being punished are the victims who have to relive it all over again with no justice or end to come of it.

joanne1947 · 01/03/2015 18:21

I'd take all the senior management to court on a charge of aiding child abuse and unless they produced full and accurate records to prove they knew nothing I'd let them enjoy the next 20 years in jail. They should suffer as the children suffered.

scarletforya · 01/03/2015 18:21

Awful, so frightening. And the cover up too. He was depraved, defiling bodies in the mortuary. Stealing someone's glass eye and making jewelry with it. Sickening, evil man.

The80sweregreat · 01/03/2015 18:22

Of course people knew, it was covered up and kept quiet for years. I hope Saville is rotting in hell. The victims have a life sentence, they all deserve better than these endless reports which lead nowhere. I feel so sorry for them all.

Latara · 01/03/2015 18:22

I wish there was a ban on printing photos of JS in the newspapers - I feel sick whenever I see a photo of him.

ilovesooty · 01/03/2015 18:25

Apparently people who reported him were told it wouldn't be taken forward because they were dependent on his money.

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Livingtothefull · 01/03/2015 18:28

JS had friends in high places, there is a lot we don't know about his Establishment connections. Of course the senior management knew about his activities and chose to do nothing….due to lack of moral courage, greed or both.

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BoneyBackJefferson · 01/03/2015 18:35

joanne1947
"I'd take all the senior management to court on a charge of aiding child abuse and unless they produced full and accurate records to prove they knew nothing I'd let them enjoy the next 20 years in jail. They should suffer as the children suffered."

This ^

ilovesooty · 01/03/2015 18:40

Some of his friends in high places were in the police force. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find he could have been exposed much sooner than he was.

Trapper · 01/03/2015 18:46

I don't understand how people are still supporting the NHS when this was allowed to happen.

Koalafications · 01/03/2015 18:50

Trapper it isn't the fault of the NHS. It's that fault of people who work in the NHS and allowed this to happen.

Trapper · 01/03/2015 18:51

The NHS IS the people that work there.

TheFecklessFairy · 01/03/2015 18:52

Trapper - what a silly effing thing to say! The NHS per se is not to blame for any of it Confused

AndThenISaid · 01/03/2015 18:52

I'd take all the senior management to court on a charge of aiding child abuse
I would imagine the problem is this.Although there is now a mountain of evidence to support the fact that JS was a paedophile and a predator, he has not been and can now never be legally proven in a criminal court.So how can some body be found guilty of aiding and abetting a crime that cannot be proved to have happened.

TheFecklessFairy · 01/03/2015 18:53

The NHS IS the people that work there.

Well thank God they were not the same people who saved my life when I needed heart surgery!

Trapper · 01/03/2015 18:54

Fekless, they allowed him unsupervised access to victims and turned a blind eye. His abuse was facilitated by the hospitals he abused in.

Trapper · 01/03/2015 18:55

So child abuse is okay, if you are a heart surgeon? Struggling with your logic there tbh..

Fatstacks · 01/03/2015 18:56

It's chilling.

The way it is all so 'matter of fact' from those who had a duty to keep people safe.

Branleuse · 01/03/2015 18:58

He was part of the establishment. A lot of paedophiles and child abusers are still part of the establishment and have got away with it and are still getting away with it. We need answers.

TheFecklessFairy · 01/03/2015 18:58

No Trapper - what ARE you on about? Your logic defies anything logical!

IF the NHS are the people who work there - then, according to you, ALL people who work in the NHS are abusers. Yes?

Trapper · 01/03/2015 18:59

Andthenisaid: yes - and the junior staff to - the report says that many said the abuse was widely known.

hackmum · 01/03/2015 19:01

I agree. Every time there's a new story or new report about his abuse, I feel even more angry. The BBC stuff was bad enough but I feel sickened to the core to think that this was going on at places like Stoke Mandeville. Those poor children were often paralysed or too weak to even protest. How sick can you get? And the fact that anyone who complained was told not to make a fuss...

And then the politicians who gave him the keys to Broadmoor and let him run free and even put him in charge for a while. If you'd read some of these accusations on a website somewhere you'd think it was some ludicrous conspiracy theory. The fact that this stuff actually happened is beyond belief.

treasureisland · 01/03/2015 19:01

Has anyone read Irvine Welsh's 'Filth'? Came out in the late 90s I think.

So very clearly based on Jimmy Savile. Many, many people must have known about it.

TheFecklessFairy · 01/03/2015 19:05

Many hundreds of people knew what was going on - but it it, as some of the scandals today, ALL about money. They were so in awe of JS's ability to raise money that they were willing to turn a blind eye. Or the lesser staff were told to keep quiet or, probably, lose their jobs.

This is how Hitler came to power, and Idi Amin, and now ISIS. It is a culture of fear - whether that be for your life or your daily living.

Koalafications · 01/03/2015 19:08

The NHS IS the people that work there.

Yes, all 1.6m people who work for the NHS are to blame for disgusting actions of Jimmy Saville and the staff who allowed him access to children. Hmm