Four weeks ago an ITV documentary broadcast allegations that one of this country’s best known TV stars, a man of the people, a friend of royalty, a devout Catholic who comforted the sick, was a child abuser. And he’d been allowed to get away with it unchecked for fifty years. Panorama: Jimmy Savile – What the BBC Knew, BBC 2012
More than 200 people have claimed they were Savile’s victims. ibid.
Just how much BBC staff really knew about Saville’s abuse? ibid.
He always had at his disposal a camper van. ibid.
Among the guests on Clunk Click were young people from hospitals and other institutions. ibid.
Gary Glitter also appeared on Clunk Click. ibid.
The BBC could be the target of thousands of claims. ibid.
Boys were targeted too. ibid.
Rumours were being picked up by Fleet Street. But still the story didn’t come out. ibid.
The Newsnight editor suddenly applied the brakes. ibid.
The scandal of child abuse in the Church of England: we investigate how senior clergy in one diocese failed to act. Abusers in church dioceses who who were able to evade justice for decades. We ask, did the church put its own interests before the needs of survivors? And in the wake of past scandals can we trust the church to do the right thing today? Panorama: Scandal in the Church of England, BBC 2019
It was called the Past Cases Review and it should have been a chance for the church to discover once and for all the scale of its abuse problem of the past … Right from the start there was a serious flaw: the Church of England decided not to speak to survivors of abuse. ibid.
We reveal how another five women want to call Prince Andrew as a witness to events in Jeffery Epstein’s homes. We investigate the woman Prince Andrew still calls his friend. And we uncover new information about the photo at the heart of a royal scandal. Panorama: The Prince and the Epstein Scandal, BBC 2019
The Prince’s interview has been widely judged to have been disastrous. ibid.
Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexual assault by more than 30 underage girls in 2006 … Earlier this year he was charged with sex trafficking. ibid.
There are pictures of him from the same period where he appears to be sweating. ibid.
‘Awful appalling men doing horrible things.’ Panorama: The Teacher the Abuser: Fighting for Justice, Nicky Campbell, BBC 2023
St John’s School for the Deaf: ‘He told me to pull down my pants and do it right there.’ Storyville: Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa, deaf resident, re masturbation in confessional, BBC 2013
‘They know that celibacy is not practised’. ibid. Richard Sipe, former Benedictine monk, Catholic sex therapist for priests
‘This kind of perversion of power that can be twisted in this way. The system of the Catholic clergy ... selects, cultivates, protects, defends and produces sexual abusers.’ ibid. Richard Sipe
Offending priests were allowed to stay in the ministry. ibid.
Bob Bolger was another student who was abused at St John’s by Father Murphy. ibid.
They began collecting sworn affidavits from Murphy’s victims. ibid.
The Vatican had known about Murphy for almost twenty years. ibid.
Identified as a key figure who covered up sex abuse in Boston, Cardinal Law cost the Church tens of millions of dollars in settlements. ibid.
Inside the cloistered walls of the Vatican lay voluminous records of world-wide sexual abuse in the priesthood, centralised in the secret archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. ibid.
Tony Walsh was Ireland’s most notorious paedophile ... The Archdiocese of Dublin had known about Walsh’s activity for almost twenty years. ibid.
It was the role played by Bishops and the Vatican in allowing the abuse to continue. ibid.
Abuse cases continue to surface. ibid.
The island of Jersey is a self-governing possession of the British Crown separate from the UK with its own laws, financial rules and Parliament. Some of its most influential figures are appointed by the Queen. When secrets from the past surfaced in 2007 they revealed deep divisions and mistrust between those now running the island, proud of Jersey’s reputation, and those who saw themselves as underdogs campaigning for change. Storyville: Dark Secrets of a Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne, captions, BBC 2021
What about the victims and survivors, what they’ve been through? A lot of them didn’t survive. Some say it’s the lucky ones that died. ibid. bloke on boat
Police search for more bodies at a former children’s home in Jersey. ibid. BBC news
There was rampant homosexuality among the older boys. I fixed the problem. I thought if I’d play around with a child once per week, that would have their needs met. Father Lawrence Murphy
Sex Cult Leader Caged: The evil ruler of a sex cult he was told yesterday he might never leave prison.
Colin Batley created ‘a sick little kingdom’ to have sex with women and children in the village of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. The Sun article March 2011
A former security guard who led a cult from a cul-de-sac in a Welsh seaside town was told he might spend life in jail for committing a series of sex attacks on boys and girls.
Colin Batley of Kidwelly, west Wales, presided over a quasi-religious sex cult that preyed on vulnerable youngsters, forced women into prostitution and indulged in occult rites.
Batley was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection with a recommendation that he spend at least 11 years in jail. Sentencing him at Swansea crown court, Judge Paul Thomas QC told him: ‘You may never be released.’ The Guardian online article Steven Morris 11th March 2011, ‘Colin Batley, leader of sex cult preying on children, could spend life in jail’
A former Nazi who founded a secretive German colony in South America where opponents of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship were tortured has been arrested after more than a decade on the run.
Detectives in Argentina captured Paul Schäfer, an 84-year-old German, on Thursday on the outskirts of the capital, Buenos Aires. Schäfer has been wanted in Chile in connection with child abuse charges since 1996, when he disappeared. Last year a Chilean court convicted him in his absence of child abuse, together with 26 other cult members.
Smiling and handcuffed, he refused to comment as police officers took him to a cell in a wheelchair.
Schäfer, one of South America’s most enigmatic fugitives, was the leader of a notorious German cult in southern Chile known as Colonia Dignidad.
A former corporal and medic in the German army during the Second World War, he moved to Chile in the early 1960s. He established a self-sufficient colony in the mountains near the city of Parral, 218 miles south of Santiago. Surrounded by barbed wire and electric fences, and largely populated by Germans, the cult remained cut off from the rest of Chile. Guardian online article 12th March 2005, ‘Fugitive Nazi Cult Leader Arrested’
Stuart Hazell has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 12-year-old Tia Sharp and must serve a minimum of 38 years before he can be considered for release.
The 37-year-old escaped a whole-life sentence, which would have meant he was never released, after the judge said he could not be sure that the murder was sexually motivated.
Mr Justice Nicol said Hazell had been sexually interested in Tia, sexually assaulted her and photographed the child's body in a sexual pose.
There were shouts of ‘beast’ from the public gallery at the Old Bailey and some relatives outside court said of the sentence: ‘Nowhere near long enough.’ The Guardian online article 14th May 2013, ‘Tia Sharp murder: Stuart Hazell to serve a minimum of 38 years in prison’
In 2008 Wayne Bent was convicted of one count of criminal sexual contact of a minor. He will have to serve at least eight and a half years before becoming eligible for release. The End of the World Cult, Channel 4 2015
In 1990, 10 members of the Children of God are arrested in Spain under charges of child abuse. Noah Thomson, Children of God: Lost and Found, HBO 2007
In 1992, 120 children are taken into protective custody in Australia. ibid.