I didn't know that about that transcript, Micto
in fact it's the first time i've read it. I actually agree with you on the knocking a dead guy bit; why didn't these people pipe up when he was alive?

But I did watch a BBC researcher on Channel Four News earlier who said she witnessed abuse, and the cynic in me couldn't work out what she could possibly gain from any of this. What troubled me more though, is why the fuck didn't she do anything about what she said she saw at the time?
( Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 20:50, 2 replies)

"why the fuck didn't she do anything about what she said she saw at the time?"
i personally think this is the crucial bit. I saw the Louis theroux doc, i've read various pieces, and yes, the guy was shady, and no question he was an oddball. but why wait till the guy died to villify him? Yes, there is the issue that he was a well-off bachelor who probably had the means to have a strong legal team, but surely if there was any proof, there would at least have been investigations?
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 21:40, closed)

Exactly
Even in the seventies it would have been shocking for an adult to get off with a fourteen year old in this country, and for someone to observe it; as she claimed to have, and do fuck all about it seems quite frankly simply odd.
( Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 22:07, closed)

You'd be amazed at the 'odd' choices people
make in these situations that seem to defy all logic and morality but make them they do. Unfortunately I am in a business where I am party to the details of genuine cases along these lines (and significantly worse) and yet folk, often in supervisory or senior roles, just avoid doing anything about it. Even they struggle to explain why in hindsight.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 2 Oct 2012, 6:48, closed)

B3ta user Jahled ladies and gentlemen.
Gets the arse on when people make jokes on comedy forums. Happy to defend peadophiles.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 10:02, closed)

The reason his victims didn't say anything at the time was that most of his victims were teenage girls in care homes in remote parts of Britain and Ireland.
He'd visit these care homes under the guise of his charity work. The only people his victims could complain to were the authority figures who left them alone in a room with him.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 22:47, closed)

And were taking his cheques at the end.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 10:37, closed)

And because said victims, being in care homes, were vulnerable and powerless enough to be considered fair game.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 22:47, closed)