Investigative
news site Exaro has published findings of Dame Janet Smith’s review into the
depraved entertainer and BBC television presenter, who was exposed as a
prolific sexual predator and paedophile a year after his death in 2011.
The review,
which has said it will publish its report in six weeks’ time, said the leaked
findings were from an early draft of the report and that “significant changes”
had since been made to its “contents and conclusions”.
According to
Exaro, the review’s findings highlight multiple rapes and indecent assaults on
girls and boys at the hands of Savile and “inappropriate sexual conduct” with
teenagers above 16 - all “in some way associated with the BBC”.
“Three of
Savile’s victims were only nine-years-old,” it says.
Exaro
reports that Smith criticises the BBC for a “very deferential culture”, with
many BBC employees telling the review that they had heard about Savile’s
predatory reputation but feared reporting their concerns to managers.
It also
warns that “a predatory child abuser could be lurking undiscovered in the BBC
even today”.
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