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British Stars of Yesteryear Are Ensnared in Sexual Offenses Inquiry
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times
Posted: May 7th, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/world/europe/sex-inquiry-o...
The suspects include a flamboyant pop star, a sharp-tongued comedian, [and] a disc jockey known as the hairy cornflake. Most are in their 70s or 80s, and most are, or were, household names celebrities from a bygone era. All have been caught up in ... Operation Yewtree, a nationwide inquiry into sexual offenses that may or may not have been committed decades ago. In American terms, it is as if Captain Kangaroo, Dick Clark and Jerry Lewis were suddenly being accused of committing sexual crimes dating back 30 or 40 years. Yewtree was formed in response to the disclosures last year that the entertainer Jimmy Savile had been a serial sexual predator with scores of victims, many of them under age, in an entertainment career spanning four decades. The case ... spurred hundreds of people to come forward with their own accounts of being sexually assaulted as teenagers. The operation involves at least 69 police officers and staff members and has already cost more than $2.7 million. The result has been a flurry of arrests, about a dozen involving very public people. England has no statute of limitations on serious crimes like rape and murder, yet it is notoriously hard to obtain convictions for sexual crimes, especially ones from years ago when no physical evidence exists. Mark Williams-Thomas, a former detective who amassed much of the evidence against Mr. Savile [said] Savile lifted the lid on people who are considered untouchable because of their celebrity status.
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