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‘Seek and Ye Shall Not Find’ - more Savile allegations.
by Anna Raccoon on March 3, 2015
And we’re off and running again, searching for that elusive item, a genuine example of ‘truly awful, dreadful child abuse’ as reported to Operation Yewtree, amongst the additional 20 children’s homes:
Alan Collins, abuse lawyer at Slater and Gordon which represents 140 of Savile’s alleged victims, said: “We welcome any investigation that will uncover further how widespread Savile’s abuse was. It is important that we know exactly when, where and how this predatory paedophile committed his horrific crimes.
First up today is:
‘A Barnardo’s children’s Home in Ilford’ - the media version.
Claims Jimmy Savile abused children at Barnardo’s homes in Redbridge are being investigated.
That one didn’t last long in the capable hands of Sara Clarke at Barnardo’s:
Barnardo’s received information via the Department for Education from an anonymous informant, relating to an unnamed children’s home during an unspecified period of time. The information stated that Savile took a child or children out of a Barnardo’s children’s home in Ilford, Essex. The investigation has been proportionate given the absence of any allegations or reports of wrongdoing, inappropriate or criminal behaviour by Savile.
Next please. Pull!
Broome House Children’s Home - the media version.
“Care home boss delivered me into the clutches of evil Savile”, says victim.
Now Broome House is slightly different, as Maureen Noble has made clear in her exhaustive report, in that there are substantiated claims of sexual abuse made by other individuals, and on 10th December 2001, the Warden of Broome House was found guilty of 21 offences against children in his care and was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. Other members of staff have since been jailed, but none were working at the home during the period with which we are concerned.
The allegation made {in the media} by an ex resident of Broome House [Adult A] said that, on a number of occasions the warden of Broome House had introduced him to JS who had sexually abused him. MCC became aware that the individual making the allegation had previously made a civil claim against MCC, settled as part of a large Group Action and had acted through a solicitor. No allegations against JS were made in that civil claim.
A visitor’s book was kept at Broome House and this was operational at the time of the alleged incident reported by Adult A. Entries were viewed from 1965 to the final entry in 1984. There is no record of JS visiting the home during this period.
The legal advisor to the investigation team invited the alleged victim, via his solicitor, to participate in the investigation and come forward for interview. The alleged victim, via his solicitor, declined to be interviewed on the basis that he wanted to attempt to put everything that happened to him as a child behind him.
No comment.
The Sarah Laski children’s Home - the media version.
A victim of sex abuse at a Jewish children’s home being investigated in the Jimmy Savile scandal has said the Jewish community needs to do more to protect its children.
Maureen Noble again; this time the Federation of Jewish Services were involved.
Adult C alleged that when she was about 10 she was sexually assaulted by JS whilst staying at the Sarah Laski Home. The incident took place in approximately 1974/1975. Adult C alleges that JS took children to a park and whilst there committed the sexual assault.
A record of care held by MCC confirmed that Adult C was resident at the Sarah Laski from the 4th - 18th December 1974. [Ed: Two weeks - this is not a mistake!]
Adult C describes herself as having Asperger’s syndrome and having
experienced physical and emotional abuse at home.
Adult C has taken legal advice on claiming against the Savile estate.
Adult C is receiving counselling at present for another matter.
“We have not been able to find any independent information to confirm any association between Sarah Laski Home and JS other than the witness statement from the alleged victim.”
Ever onwards! Do not despair.
The Manchester Taxi Driver’s Association for Handicapped Children - there is no media version of this allegation.
Adult B said he saw a young girl that he thought to be from the children’s home (unspecified) get out of WB’s taxi and into JS’s Rolls Royce before JS drove off. He thought the girl was called W and was 13/14 years old.
You have to pity Maureen Noble, yes, it’s her again, tasked with investigating child abuse by Savile in children’s homes - this time she finds herself landed with no child, no children’s homes, no perpetrator, and no possible witness:
The investigation team confirmed with Greater Manchester Police that WB died some years ago.
So she ploughed on for another five pages, giving us chapter and verse of the origins of the Manchester Taxi Driver’s Association for Handicapped Children, a now disbanded charity of which Savile was the Patron, and conceding that Savile may indeed have had reason to use a Taxi [sic] whilst resident in Manchester…before concluding:
On the balance of probability JS may have had a fundraising role with the charity. However, there is no evidence or suggestion that he had unsupervised access to children whilst involved with the annual trip.
And there endeth the investigation into the Manchester Taxi Driver’s Association for Handicapped Children…
Colleton Lodge Children’s Home - the media version.
Devon County Council have been asked to look into whether Jimmy Savile abused children at Colleton Lodge in Exeter. Anyone with any information relating to the allegations surrounding Colleton Lodge is asked to phone 0345 155 1071.
Jan Shadbolt, the County Solicitor for the Council, and a hefty team, set to investigating - somewhat handicapped, yet again, by the fact that they didn’t know who the victim was…nor was their only ‘witness’ sure Savile had committed an assault…on account of the fact that he hadn’t actually witnessed anything.
Person A said that he had not been abused by Savile. Person A alleged that late one evening in 1981 Jimmy Savile and another man visited Colleton Lodge. After several hours, he became aware that they were both in an adjacent bedroom which was occupied by a younger boy. He heard “haunting screams” and formed the impression that Savile and/or the other man had sexually abused/assaulted that boy. He did not witness any assault, was not aware if anyone else was a witness and did not question or speak to the boy in the room about what had occurred. Person A did not report what he had heard to any staff members at the time. He could not recall that boy’s name.
Poor Ms Shadbolt. How to pad that out to 31 pages? She managed.
And concluded:
The investigation team explored the information provided to it by the Metropolitan Police Service as thoroughly as possible but no evidence or information was found which corroborated the allegation.
None of the current and former members of Devon County Council staff who were contacted by phone or interviewed by the investigation team had any recollection of Savile visiting Colleton Lodge. Other than Person A, no other former resident of Colleton Lodge contacted by the investigation team had any recollection of a Savile being at Colleton Lodge.
‘A’ Savile? - Wot, not even a Thaddeus T. Savile, or maybe a Gas Meter reader wearing a Savile Row suit? Nothing? Nowt? Not a single Savile?
Only another 12 reports to get through. Surely they can’t all be like this - can they? |
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