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Originally Posted by ntluser
You do wonder what actual practical steps the BBC has taken to prevent this kind of thing ever happening again.
It is worrying too that so many of these sexual abuse cases are connected to the BBC and management were supposedly unaware of them.
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Hopefully they will take future accusations seriously. Let's not pretend this was only an issue at the BBC. Saville seemed to be doing this in institutions across the country, the police didn't seem to follow up on what they did know, even the 'establishment' as as senior politicians and the royals seemed to welcome him into their world.
I think society in general allowed people in positions of power to get away with it. It also seems that society had, maybe still has, a problem with believing victims of sexual assault especially when those victims are from difficult backgrounds or are otherwise 'troubled'. Hell, look at Rotherham.
Watching all these inquiries come in and all the arrests form Yewtree it's weird how society seems to have forgotten that it is culpable to some extent as well. I mean where were the press in going after Saville, Harris and Clifford?