Dame Janet Smith’s report shows how silence helped the star get absent with abuse – and the continuing scandal is that staff remain afraid to blow the whistle
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 frightened 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, and the draft report records that one teenager abused on camera was told it was “just Jimmy fooling about”.
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Source: theguardian.com