In
all major sex abuse scandals – from Rotherham to the Catholic church as
well as Jimmy Savile – the perpetrators are aided by a culture of
silence. And the most searing indictment in the report into the BBC’s handling of the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal is that this culture of silence continues.
Decades after children who spoke out about abuse by Savile were bustled out of the studio, BBC employees still feel too scared to speak out about their workplace in case they lose their job or fail to get promoted, according to Dame Janet Smith’s draft report. Extraordinarily, the draft report records that one teenager abused on camera was told it was “just Jimmy fooling about”.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/21/bbc-staff-jimmy-savile-dame-janet-smith#_=_
Decades after children who spoke out about abuse by Savile were bustled out of the studio, BBC employees still feel too scared to speak out about their workplace in case they lose their job or fail to get promoted, according to Dame Janet Smith’s draft report. Extraordinarily, the draft report records that one teenager abused on camera was told it was “just Jimmy fooling about”.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/21/bbc-staff-jimmy-savile-dame-janet-smith#_=_
