**Triggering**
Another day, another serial predatory pedophile who used his position and "celebrity" stature to keep questions at bay.
Jimmy Savile, a wildly popular TV host on the BBC died last year which seems to have triggered some of his victims to speak out about the abuse they suffered at his hands as young girls.
Rumors surfaced over 30 years ago about his behavior, but nothing was done about it. It was dismissed out of hand.
Derek Chinnery, BBC Radio 1 controller from 1978 to 1985, said he had questioned Savile directly about the rumours.
Chinnery, who was Savile's boss at Radio 1, told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House: "I asked: 'What's all this, these rumours we hear about you Jimmy?' And he said: 'That's all nonsense'. There was no reason to disbelieve [him]."
Remember, all that the pedophile asks is that you do nothing. And, apparently, that's what they did. Rumors, innuendo, salacious gossip - I guess in this case because it was young girls this pedophile was raping and it's the entertainment industry, it's okay.
And, perhaps because it is women, the first use of hysteria has risen to the forefront...
But Sir Michael Lyon, former BBC Trust chairman, has warned that the BBC is the victim of "hysteria" over the scandal. Lyon, who was chairman of the trust between 2007 and 2011, told Sky News's Murnaghan programme that the scandal extended well beyond the broadcaster.
Lyon said: "What we hear are not just allegations relating to the BBC, although I don't want to diminish those, but also allegations made about hospital and prison contexts. If they are proved right, here we have a serial offender potentially across a wide range of settings.
Link to Story
Documentary and Interview with Esther Rantzen follow after the jump.
Link to the full documentary: Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Saville
Esther Rantzen, the founder of ChildLine, said she now felt a degree of guilt for ignoring "gossip" that surrounded the Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It presenter.
"I feel that we in television in his world in some way colluded with him as a child abuser - because I now believe that's what he was."
Interview linked above -