Is the BBC a breeding ground

[Justin Passing]

I worked with the meeja quite a lot., including the beeb. I expect there's some truth in the OP question. There are a lot of smooth and strange people with perceptions of power in the industry, and the BBC was very cliquey. I can think of a few I wouldn't leave a kid with.

 

[ajohn]

If a full check was done they would be found to be widely dispersed from all sort of areas but being associated with kids in some way probably figures more - hence all of the checks carried out in some areas now.

Pretty sure that religion in terms of numbers beats the BBC but even then more elsewhere.

 

[opps]

And hospitals...schools....factories...universities...morgues...plumbing supplies...garden centres...police stations...court houses...blah, blah.

Apparently, the first date that elvis took his future wife to was a mortuary. Like his music or not, but that is effin' odd...

 

[charliegolf]

Something I learned from lots and lots of safeguarding training, is that abusers will plan a whole life career to get them to where thy want to be; be that with small children, vulnerable adults- even the old. They are meticulous and calculating. So, anywhere all us experts out here can spot a possibility for possible victims, the paedo is way ahead of us. The BBC might (as with all MSN) be a place where the 'camp followers' (think TOTP') make it a target rich environment. But children's homes, sports clubs, schools, churches, boys n girls clubs, guides, scouts... There will be sharks circling.

 

[opps]

I worked with the meeja quite a lot., including the beeb. I expect there's some truth in the OP question. There are a lot of smooth and strange people with perceptions of power in the industry, and the BBC was very cliquey. I can think of a few I wouldn't leave a kid with.

I spent many years working for people very, very high up in organisations such as the BBC, and other broadcasters. That said, I am going back 18(?) years. By that point they had kicked the pervs to to curb.

I appreciate that people of a given bent want to bash the Beeb but I talk as someone that had a sibling that worked in in the industry and retired at the age of 53. She made approx £400,000/500,000k PA from her job. There is no way that that her employers would allow the likes of Jimmy S to be on the books these days

 

[ajohn]

Jimmy S to be on the books these days

He was the problem really not the BBC.

 

[fillyboy]

There is no way that that her employers would allow the likes of Jimmy S to be on the books these days

He was the problem really not the BBC.

Hmmmm. Maybe. I think the fact that cover-ups took place, that the crimes were concealed, is almost as bad as the crimes themselves.
And as somebody else said, it's not just the Beeb, it's political parties of all persuasions, although Liberals tend to err toward deviancy, it's Scouts, it's potentially teachers and social workers, policemen have come to the fore in recent years, it could be anyone.

 

[Dork Lard]

Sexual deviancy & who you'd 'trust' to babysit your children has always been a subject of underground discussion hasn't it.

I like to think I can spot a 'wrong 'un' at 30 paces, yet they are truly devious & they have a life mission to learn how to deceive us.

I have got it wrong on several occasions, which some of you will take the wrong way & you will strike on the ability to selectively quote my text & spin it to your own meaning.

You need to understand that this is just another way that we expose you.

 

[Justin Passing]

"Everywhere you look" there seem to be examples of predatory men.

Question: If you took 1000 men and put them in positions of power and authority over people, both sexes, where the men knew they would get away with anything they did, how many would indulge in the behaviour we're talking about?
On the slave ships and well documented war conquests, 100% was common. Does this lead to the suggestion that most men are pedophiles, but some control themselves?
One of the Popes said a few years ago, iow "You can't help what goes through your mind". Hmmm.

 

[Notch7]

A few for sure but nothing like the BBC

Silly bias.

 

[ajohn]

I think the fact that cover-ups took place,

That is the tricky aspect really - were they. Show biz people hit the main news when they are found to be up to something. Ordinary people often don't.

Then victims. Personal experience. When I was very young I had strange experiences with a couple of blokes in a short period of time. Told dad, who glared at them and they went away rapidly. My parents decided to throw a rather trendy at the time black polo neck sweater away. They stopped. I was ~5.

Later 11 or so, judo. Turned out there was a bloke that liked playing with kids dicks. When I found out I mentioned it to a friend that also went who said I know and had been putting up with it. We both stopped going. However another similar was asked about visiting a grave yard with him again. The kid said yes. Must admit I thought strange maybe they like looking at dates on graves etc. Point is neither of us told anybody about it and maybe one kid liked what went on if it did.

 

[noseall]

Something I learned from lots and lots of safeguarding training, is that abusers will plan a whole life career to get them to where thy want to be

Correct. It's frightening how savvy these bastads are. There are opportunistic environments for abusers and that's why they aim for an institution that suits. It would be no good them going to a remote village looking for a job herding cattle on bleak hillside in northern Scotland for instance. They like larger institutions or positions of power v's vulnerability.

 

[noseall]

I wish you shared my bias against Pedo's.

It seems you want people to condemn the BBC because paedos have worked there? Why is that? I'll continue to call out paedos wherever they work and let you right wing gammons carry wasting your time attacking the ever impartial Beeb.

 

[transam]

It seems you want people to condemn the BBC because paedos have worked there? Why is that? I'll continue to call out paedos wherever they work and let you right wing gammons carry wasting your time attacking the ever impartial Beeb.

( call out )
What even in Rotherham and Rochdale

 

[noseall]

( call out )
What even in Rotherham and Rochdale

Everywhere. Because that's where they are. Did you not know they exist outside Rotheram and Rochdale? Gosh, how silly of you.