(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130111-jimmy-savile-hmed-8a.photoblog600.jpg)Leslie Lee / Getty Images Iconic British television presenter Jimmy Savile shows off his OBE award after being honored at London's Buckingham Palace on March 21, 1972.By Alastair Jamieson, NBC NewsLONDON — Former BBC star Jimmy Savile was one of Britain’s "most prolific" intercourse offenders, committing at least 214 intercourse crimes against victims aged as young as 8, police said Friday.
Investigators released a report cataloging more than 50 years of rapes and indecent assaults. It accused the late television and radio host of using his celebrity status to gain access to vulnerable children in hospitals, nightclubs and even a hospice for the terminally ill.
Almost all the allegations have been made since Savile’s death in 2011, even though the offences date back as far as 1955.
The revelations have triggered a scandal in Britain (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/27/14722759-jimmy-savile-abuse-scandal-stuns-britain-a-whos-who-primer?lite) and prompted a string of public inquiries into how some allegations were not properly investigated while Savile was alive.
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