UK police report 50 years of Savile sex abuse

January 12, 2013 03:29

British police say that Jimmy Savile, the late BBC star presenter, was a "predatory sex offender" whose victims were as young as eight years old, according to a newly released extensive report.

Savile preyed on children and adults in hospitals and even a hospice, according to the report, released by the police and child protection services on Friday. The television presenter was accused of having committed more than 200 sex crimes over more than half a century, from 1955 to 2009.

Police and child protection authorities found Savile used his celebrity status to "hide in plain sight", but that he could have been prosecuted. Police says the scale of Savile's sex abuse was "unprecedented in UK".

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