Like any affair involving a Catholic priest, it only takes one victim to come forward to commence waves of accusations.The odds do seem against the deceased TV presenter where in recent weeks, there have been over 340 accounts of sexual abuse yet only 40 are being closely looked at by the police.
The man was riddled throughout his life with these accusations and once claimed he was "feared in every girl's school in the country"which in hindsight, does sound fairly suspicious.
I'll admit it's not good to judge people by appearance alone but seriously? He's probably one of the most stereotypical, caricature-esque looking pedophiles out there.
However, I'm not saying this defines him as a pedophile, he just merely conveys the stereotypical image of one.
One thing that I find truly disconcerting about this whole affair is the media's approach in handling the situation, take The Sun for example. They have began a campaign wishing to strip him from his knighthood. If all accusations are founded then fair enough, yet what is frustrating is the fact that The Sun are lionising him as a pedophile before any actual inquiry.
If it has been proven then he deserves to be known as a pedophile yet before an objective and un-biased inquiry is made, such claims are left to the ignorant and uneducated.
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