Mattywisk wrote on Jun 6
th, 2014 at 11:57pm:
So has there been any real credible evidence against him yet other than speculation ?
I gave up reading about it after the far fetched stories & the girl claiming she was molested in the two little boys line in public and no one saw anything.
I'll have a google.
When I first read about the charges I did wonder if it was just fallout from all the Jimmy Sevile publicity. Maybe women hopping on the bandwagon etc
But recently there was an article in the paper by a woman who works on aussie radio,and she said that many years ago, she wanted him in for a radio interview. Her co-host wasn't keen, said he had a reputation in the media as a bit of a dirty old man.
But anyway, Harris gave the interview, he came over as warm and friendly, it all went well, then he posed for photos with them. But as he was posing, she felt his hand going around and groping part of her breast, but not where other people or the camera could see it.
Now she obviously was an adult at the time, so this isn't a case of paedophilia. But I do believe everything she wrote, it had the ring of truth. She said she was embarrassed to tell her co-host till some time afterwards and didn't mention it to others.
What it suggests to me is Harris has been a bit of a groper and maybe he doesn't mind taking a risk, maybe that was part of the thrill. Men like that probably sum up their victims beforehand-are they forceful, are they likely to kick up a fuss or be embarrassed and not say a thing?
My own personal suspicion is Harris has been guilty of quite a few offences. I wouldn't call him a paedophile as such if the girls have been past puberty, but he is probably guilty of taking advantage of his position as an adult of power. There's a reason why laws protect teens under 16.
He's been sleazy and arrogant and his past is catching up with him.
One or two people you might put down to opportunism, but when you start to have a lot of different people with sleazy stories about him, well, the odds are starting to look like he is guilty to me.
And it also sounds to me as if the fact was an open secret in the entertainment industry. The media are always after priests and such who did not report abuse they heard of, but those in the media are no different.
What it comes down to is if you don't see it yourself, you probably don't report it, but you do talk about it.