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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.
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Spot on. In 1980 I worked at a radio station in Leeds. It was a very junior position but, nevertheless, I was told that if Saville was ever in the building I should never, ever leave him alone with any children, male or female.
If a junior employee knew about it, obviously those higher up the hierarchy did.