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Originally Posted by Maggy J
I think it's a waste of time.There can be no prosecution and I think that the women concerned should get help with treatment rather than appear on this programme.I think it's more likely to do them harm when they are unlikely to get any real redress from the person concerned.
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I do understand your viewpoint Maggy but having a close friend who was both mentally and physically abused as a child I also understand why these women want to do this.
A dear friend has had 'treatment' all her adult life in the form of counseling but nothing has been able to reduce the pain and psychological damage she went through, and still has to deal with, when she was forced to endure what was happening to her because no one would have believed what she and many others were going through at the hands of so called pillars of the community.
I don't know whether these allegations are true but as more people come forward I am starting to believe that, had he been alive, Mr Savile would have a case to answer. Unfortunately this can now never happen so having the abuse acknowledged publicly and having other people come forward and admit that they knew this was going on but did nothing will give these women the possibility of closure.
I just hope that those people who now claim to have known what was happening at the time feel some sort of responsibility for the things that they failed to act upon. Turning a blind eye to abuse is shameful.