Something I've found about all this is, that I'm much more suspicious of old men who are an "eccentric character, pillar of the community" type. We may think that JS had a creepy aura and RH had a loveable aura, but what they have in common is a need to be outrageous, to have a defined wacky persona, to be the centre of attention, to be adored, to make everyone laugh. Every town seems to have that local character who is on every committee and wears a tweed suit or a funny hat or whatever.
Both JS and RH also never attempted to be handsome or sexy. It's like they both hid in plain sight by being so unsexy that the stuff they did was laughed off. At the beginning of the RH documentary, there's a segment from an old black and white show where he's dancing around with all these young women in bikinis. It's creepy as hell now, but it looks like it was played for laughs because he was goofy, so no one watching thought of it as properly sexual. Even though he was creepy as
tit, Savile kind of had the same thing - he literally said in interviews "I get in bed with the patients at Stoke Mandeville when no one's looking," and the audience all laugh, because he's so weird and un-sexy it's hard to imagine him as having a sexuality. I know that's not how it works, but I do think they both played a goofy persona so they could do sexual things without them being perceived in a sexual way.
Anyway - these days whenever I hear about how someone's uncle was "a character" back in the day, my brain immediately goes "Paedophile."
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Hes such a ped he got recalled almost immediately for trying to access the dark Web knowing at his old age he could very well die in prison serving the rest of his stretch. How much of a deviant does one person need to be? Yuckkkk.
It's absolutely terrifying that he feels such a strong compulsion to abuse children that he just risks prison even when he's on parole. You can't rehabilitate some people and they need to be locked up indefinitely.
