"Mentally scarred for life"
rightly so we have damages as compensation where a wrongful act has been proved, but when the crime occurred more than 25 years does anyone believe that compensation can somehow suddenly remove a trauma experience I don't think so. There may be a few who continue to require medical help and compensation will provide for that, But I have the belief that there will be some who have kept quiet up to this point but now see this as an opportunity.

I imagine JS didn't die intestate. Somebody inherited his money. Money he should never have been allowed to accumulate and wouldn't have, if some of the stories of cover ups are to be proved. Maybe the victims can sue the people who profited when JS died.

Then again JS may have already left his cash to a good cause.

carver

**"I bet half of them couldn't wait to tell their friends at the time just what a great time they had with the pervert. I would imagine that at the time a lot of these girls didn't have to be asked twice."**

Do you really have to be so offensive? They weren't even asked at all.

You have absolutely no idea how these people felt, or what they thought at the time. You might have your own cynical views on the subject, but at least have the decency to respect other peoples' feelings. If you're a man you can't have the faintest clue about how a young girl or woman might feel when being sexually abused. or what effect it has in later life.

As for "All these "victims" have only just recalled how traumatised they are after all this time" That's another example of you pretending you know what has been in their minds since they were abused.

If it can be proved, that, as has been stated, the nurses, carers and staff, of the hospitals, BBC and now ,prison,where the alleged offences occurred, have turned a "Blind eye" to the goings on, then they are as guilty as the man in question!

Abused children invariably blame themselves: "If it hadn't been for me it wouldn't have happened". Unless they undergo proper therapy this unconscious guilt will follow them for the rest of their lives.

I have said elsewhere that the authorities who condoned this predatory pervert's abuse should hang their heads in shame. They should also face their day of reckoning, not so much for financial gain but to hopefully ensure this type of abuse from supposedly trusted people never happens again.