Marcus Parks
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He's got three patches on.
I've been on Nicorette.
It's only been like six years.
That's all.
He's not addicted to that.
They use the addiction to control these girls.
It's using addiction and joy.
As far as how the girls at Duncroft were controlled by these twin sirens of cigarettes and records, their days revolved around cleaning the facility and working in the kitchen.
And if they were well-behaved and did all their assignments, they got 40 cigarettes a week that they could smoke in the commons room while listening to records.
That's fun.
But if the girls were ill-tempered or didn't do their work...
Their cigarettes were taken away and they would be sentenced to solitary confinement in a silent padded room for an indeterminate amount of time.
Yeah.
When Jimmy Savile showed up at Duncroft in 1974, he immediately saw how to take advantage of this situation.
He would arrive with armloads of candy, records, and cigarettes, the currency of Duncroft, and he would be greeted by a posse of girls every time he showed up in his Rolls Royce.
Like the patients at Broadmoor, Savile would take these girls out for rides in his Rolls Royce for sexual abuse and rape.
But it was actually a former Duncroft girl who became the first person to come forward about Jimmy Savile's crimes, although this girl did so in a clandestine way.
Her name was Kat Ward, and it was the online memoir that she wrote prior to Jimmy Savile's death that set reporters on the trail that led them to discover Savile's massive web of evil, although Kat only referred to Savile as J.S.
Now, Ward said that when Savile took her out on drives in his Rolls Royce, just like he did with dozens of other girls, Savile would grope her.
He would then promise cigarettes, records, and trips to the BBC.