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					Originally Posted by Chris  Plenty of people knew about Saville by the 1980s.  It was tolerated, and his activities weren’t taken seriously, because of a combination of a cult of celebrity around him (a pernicious and ongoing problem especially within large media organisations like the BBC), and society in general not taking child abuse seriously. | 
	
 If it had been explicitly proven to the wider public they would not have tolerated it.