Rant 286 12/10/12 Subject: The Saville debate

Rant number 286

Unless you've been hidden under a rock for quite a while. I imagine that you have heard  something (or quite a lot) about Jimmy Saville in the news lately.

Let's face it after all - it's almost impossible to avoid hearing about it at the moment!

I'm not going to condemn or excuse anyone just based on the coverage in the media. I am also not one to condemn someone who is deceased without some serious proof. After all - its not like he can defend himself.

I am however, becoming ever more confused as to how things have got to the fever pitch they are now.

According to the news this evening - as many as 40 cases of abuse are now being investigated. If he really was abusing children - that is truly awful and completely inexcusable. What I do wonder however, is simply: why now.

If you were abused and the BBC didn't take it seriously or the police didn't take it seriously - the press would have - the fuckers do love scandal after all.

If one person had gone that step - others surely would have come forward while he was still alive - which could have caused some justice to occur.

What can happen now - once the man is dead? No justice at all - only groundless accusation and possibly some money changing hands.

I cannot even begin to imagine how awful it must be to have been abused by someone as a child - but I'm pretty sure they'd want to tell someone to try and get the guy brought to justice. Leaving it until now seems so perplexing. I mean - surely they knew by leaving it until now they'd do nothing but damage his memory.

It's hard to know where this debate will end - is it a way for some people to try and get some money - or is it a cry for help.

There's no way of knowing now.

I just don't know why people didn't speak up before the guy couldn't defend himself.

How perplexing!

Rant over.