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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
One has to remember that where the Church is concerned many people will put the reverence for their religeon way above the importance of child abuse by priests even if they were the subject of it.
In Savile's case now that he's no longer able to weild any restrictive power such as super injunctions etc, victims feel free to recount the abuse.
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Oh yes, there's clear differences between the cases. However, that doesn't mean that there aren't similar mechanisms at work that hold victims back from speaking up for decades.
All I'm saying is that the fact that people didn't speak out at the time is not necessarily evidence for a deliberate cover up. Times and attitudes were different 40 years ago.