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Posted By: GUEST
03-Oct-12 - 02:40 AM
Thread Name: Obit: RIP Sir Jimmy Savile of BBC [2011]
Subject: RE: 2011 Obit: RIP Sir Jimmy Savile UK disc jockey
More former coworkers corroborate abuse allegations (or "muckraking if you prefer):

"a former producer, Wilfred De'Ath, has confirmed that he warned Savile informally ... after the latter spent the night "in a rather squalid hotel with a girl who was at the most 12, or probably 10". Told that he was "living dangerously", the presenter claimed that he was "much too valuable to the BBC for them to do anything to me"."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9582129/Saviles-reputation.html

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"Former BBC producer says she witnessed Jimmy Savile abuse - video:"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/video/2012/oct/01/former-bbc-producer-jimmy-savile-video

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"Yesterday a former BBC chauffeur made damaging allegations about how the scandal was hushed up. He said he had once driven home a 'hysterical' 12-year-old girl who claimed she had been sexually assaulted by Savile after appearing on Jim'll Fix It.
The girl 'sobbed her heart out all the way home' after she was allegedly abused by the presenter after the show during the mid-1970s. When she reached her front door, she collapsed into her mother's arms in tears, telling her: 'I'm sorry. It wasn't my fault. Jimmy grabbed me. He attacked me.'
The driver, who worked as a chauffeur for the BBC for 16 years, said staff members had previously been fired for talking about Savile's reputation, and he feared he would lose his job if he reported it.
He said the show's chiefs 'knew very well' that he had a reputation for sexually assaulting young contestants, and had even begun to employ chaperones to make sure girls could not be lured into his dressing room."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2211463/Jimmy-Savile-As-pressure-grows-BBC-cover-women-come-forward-ordeals.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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