Paedophiles are very manipulative and clever when grooming children. It is possible that he chose to go about his charitable works precisely BECAUSE it gave him access to young and vulnerable (easy meat in those days, who would have believed them?)people.

The fact that he raised so much for charity may have been a lucky accident but it did make it much harder to knock him off his pedestal.

I am just glad my Mum is not alive to see what he was really about, for her and many others at the time he was almost considered to be a saint. He certainly isn't considered to be one now.