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Robert Evans

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

I don't have any evidence.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

I'm not aware of any evidence.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

It's just kind of a thing people wonder.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Because his relationship with his mom is so weird.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Yeah, it may not have involved actual molestation.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Sorry, I cut you off.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Not that we know of.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Like, obviously, there are priests who were around the area he grew up in who molested kids, because that's true everywhere there were Catholic churches.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

But I haven't there's he never alleges that and I don't have any evidence of it.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Right.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

So we can we can ponder this.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

And obviously, it is not uncommon for people who wind up being child molesters to have been molested or to have had like very early traumatic sexual experiences.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

But that doesn't have to happen for someone to be a child molester.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Sometimes people are just child molesters because they suck, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Anyway, his childhood is interrupted by World War II, the big dub-dub dose, although not in a way that was particularly traumatizing to him.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

A lot of British kids in this era have really trauma because they're bombed, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

Kids in London and stuff are getting bombed and hiding in shelters.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

And he gets a bit of that

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

But he's in a really good area to avoid, like, the worst of that.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: Jimmy Saville: Britain's Unending Nightmare

He recalls when he was 11 or so and the war started that he and a bunch of local kids were taken out of the city to this rural camp where they did minor manual labor in order to keep them away from bombs.