In this post I am going to be talking about how one certain children presenter became a moral panic.
Jim'ill fix it was a popular television programme back in 1975, it was presented by Jimmy Savile till 1994. This television show was about encouraging children to write in their wishes so that Jimmy Savile and Roger Ordish who was introduced as Doctor magic to grant each and one of their wishes.
Jimmy savile died in 2011 at age 84 as a well respected television presenter by many until a year after his death. In 2012 the charity fund raiser, the charismatic television presenter was alleged of child sex abuse and rape which made him one of Britain's most preditor sex offender as ITV shows a documentary of the sexual abuse claims towards Jimmy Savile. By the time January 2013 came there were 450 victims that have brought forward their complaints of sexual abuse against Jimmy Savile from the ages of 8-47 of both girls and boys.
The Jimmy Savile scandle became a big part of moral panic around Great Britain. The message that was being sent around the United Kingdom that the well known loveable television presenter from everyone's memorial pasts is not as truthful as we all thought and that he had many dark secrets. The person who we allowed as a nation to be able to work with our children has now been accused as a pedophile. This shows that we should not trust anyone with our children as you don't know who they are really. This caused panic and worry towards many parent of these children as they put their children in the hand of a pedophile.
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