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UK probe: Savile abused victims aged 5 to 75

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 1986, file photo, Disc jockey and presenter on Britain's Radio 1, Jimmy Savile is pictured at Madame Tussauds museum in London, England. Investigators said the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted victims aged from five to 75 in hospitals across Britain over more than four decades. A series of reports released Thursday June 25, 2014 found that Savile, who had unsupervised access to multiple hospitals as a celebrity and a fundraiser, abused both patients and hospital workers. (AP Photo/John Redman, File) FILE - In this Dec. 17, 1986, file photo, Disc jockey and presenter on Britain's Radio 1, Jimmy Savile is pictured at Madame Tussauds museum in London, England. Investigators said the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted victims aged from five to 75 in hospitals across Britain over more than four decades. A series of reports released Thursday June 25, 2014 found that Savile, who had unsupervised access to multiple hospitals as a celebrity and a fundraiser, abused both patients and hospital workers. (AP Photo/John Redman, File)

By Associated Press June 26, 2014 1 min read

LONDON (AP) – Investigators say the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted victims aged from five to 75 in hospitals across Britain over more than four decades.

A series of reports released Thursday found that Savile, who had unsupervised access to multiple hospitals as a celebrity fundraiser, abused both patients and hospital workers. Investigators said of the 60 alleged abuses at Leeds general infirmary, three were rapes.

There were also reports Savile claimed to have performed sex acts on the dead. Dr. Sue Proctor, who led one of the investigations, said although the allegations could not be verified, access to hospital mortuaries in the 1980s was “lax.”

Savile’s reputation collapsed after he died in 2011, when hundreds of witnesses and victims came forward accusing him of sexual abuse.