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Rolf Harris Trial Verdict
Rolf Harris Guilty on all charges
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Lots of abusers are still very much alive and kicking and almost certainly still abusing. Google Elm Guest House for instance. Cyril Smith was never prosecuted because he knew where the bodies were buried. He didn't abuse boys in Rochdale on his own. Local journalists will tell you about the "dirty mac brigade" that used to turn up by train on a Saturday...
08:36 Wed 02nd Jul 2014
canary42...I have posted this afternoon at length about Cyril Smith.
I too was amazed by the fact that in his case the sexual abuse went on for over 50 years. What was even more amazing is the fact that so many people were aware of his activities. Some of those people were Policemen and to give them credit, they did investigate but were told to drop the cases, by orders from above, on one occasion by Special Branch !
That is what is so galling about these cases. Whether it is Stuart Hall, or Savile or Cyril Smith, or now, Rolf Harris, the media will be thick with
"I Told You So's" from the good and great.
What a great pity that these people didn't speak up, and very loudly at the time. Paul Gambaccini has recently said that he knew that Savile committed disgusting offences with dead bodies...the fact that he kept quiet about it the time is an accessory to the event as far as I am concerned !
I too was amazed by the fact that in his case the sexual abuse went on for over 50 years. What was even more amazing is the fact that so many people were aware of his activities. Some of those people were Policemen and to give them credit, they did investigate but were told to drop the cases, by orders from above, on one occasion by Special Branch !
That is what is so galling about these cases. Whether it is Stuart Hall, or Savile or Cyril Smith, or now, Rolf Harris, the media will be thick with
"I Told You So's" from the good and great.
What a great pity that these people didn't speak up, and very loudly at the time. Paul Gambaccini has recently said that he knew that Savile committed disgusting offences with dead bodies...the fact that he kept quiet about it the time is an accessory to the event as far as I am concerned !
Just one more piece of evidence that people who bad things don't necessarily look like 'evil monsters'.
And that people who do good things can look 'creepy'.
If people continue to expect 'baddies' to look like baddies then we will continue to overlook bad things being perpetrated; and continue to jump to wrong conclusions about the non-guilty.
And that people who do good things can look 'creepy'.
If people continue to expect 'baddies' to look like baddies then we will continue to overlook bad things being perpetrated; and continue to jump to wrong conclusions about the non-guilty.