Barry NeildNovember 8, 2012 07:00
LONDON — On Saturday evenings for nearly two decades, most families in Britain would welcome a predatory child abuser into their homes. Although he was only an image on a television screen, they would smile with him as if he were a cherished uncle. For anyone who didn't grow up in the UK in the 1970s and ‘80s, it may be hard to comprehend the extent to which the Jimmy Savile sex scandal has shocked, saddened and transfixed the country.
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