How Jimmy Savile used power & fame to abuse children for decades

In late 2012, almost a year after his death, new and old reports surfaced that Jimmy Savile, who was an English media personality, had sexually abused hundreds of children throughout his life, with alleged male and female victims, ranging from prepubescent to adult. Savile often came into contact with these victims through his creative projects for the BBC and his charitable work for the National Health Service (NHS). Prior to his death, claims from members of the public whose children had been assaulted in hospitals and elsewhere were dismissed for decades. This documentary should make us all question our faith in experts, who allowed Saville freedom to assault the helpless in institutions for the vulnerable. But the truly overwhelming issue of this documentary is the fixation so many people have with fame and celebrity. Jimmy Savile was a malicious, psychopathic arch-manipulator but it takes two to tango and the other criminals in this remarkable story are the, literally, hundreds of people wh