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Savile sex scandal spurs British soul searching

LONDON — Jimmy Savile was one of Britain’s biggest stars — and, allegedly, one of its worst sexual predators. Now the nation is asking whether there was a link between one and the other.

Was this man at the heart of the nation’s popular culture a product of the permissive 1960s and ’70s, or do the conditions that allegedly let him get away with repeated child sex abuse still exist, even as awareness of the problem is more widespread?

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Fear the liberal-media complex. A socialist government gives money to a liberal group and provides zero oversite... and you end up with a degenerate pervert who has been raping childing for 50 years and is protected by the government.... liberals - defenders of the Paedophile

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