Dear individual,

So 13 years old young girls “just led him on until they realised money could be made by stitching a bloke up”?

I don't think even runner would stoop to such amoral depths.

And you blame feminism?

Misogynistic clap trap.

You need help my friend.

From a police point of view and from many years ago there was plenty of dirt about the man back then but nothing that would stick.
The same went for "Hey Dad" and another host of a major children's show so maybe someone will come forward about him.
Let him die in prison and strip his money and give it to the victums while his family lives in shame and poverty.
There can be no forgiveness for any sex offender.

Jay of Melbourne, "The thing is though that some of the "pervs" were just harmless eccentrics, loners or simpletons who didn't deserve the epithet and as it happened it was my basketball coach who was the biggest "fairy" in town, he molested many young boys and is now in jail."

I didn't see your post before posting.

A story.
Not so long ago a local primary school called the police and had a well-publicised 'lock-down', heaps of hysteria with 'concerned' parents, the full disaster, after a teacher reported a possible 'Child Molester' allegedly grooming children at a boundary fence.

The truth was that it was a frail old gent who always walked in full view on the pedestrian walkway at the front of the school. In the last year he has not been making it to his bus seat pit-stop, but stops short to gather his breath. His wife is dead and children long departed to the four winds to pursue work. He is clean, neat and will be proudly independent to the end. He is a good citizen and a positive role model.

In the next school assembly the teacher was lauded by the obviously concerned headmistress and children were warned of the constant dangers posed by lurking men. If I had been the principal I would have been wondering about the teacher's maturity and judgement, and asking why she didn't casually stroll over to the old chap to greet him with a flask of water and ensure he wasn't about to drop in the hot sun.

We have to manage the risk presented by the very few real threats, while keeping the good in our culture.

SteeleRedux & Poirot,
Thank you for your criticism, you popped up as expected in your full glory of goody-good.
Now tell me about those poor kids that have lost their family harmony because of your Leftie idealist ALP governments have ruined so many families ? Ah, I see that's different, no sex involved, just a financial shafting when dads lost their jobs.
What about the morons next door in high density housing whose babies suffer the agony of music noise.

I think the issue worth noting here, is that Harris "targeted" young girls for his "groping".

The majority appear to have been around 13-14 years of age.

Who thinks a grown man doing that is doing the right thing?

He might have received the name "Octopus" as some flighty description of a fun loving tactile guy - and perhaps he would have carried on taking his chances "if" his chosen cuddles were from grown women. They would have put up with it or put him in his place rather speedily.

Instead we have testimony along the lines of

"However, she told the court the entertainer began indecently assaulting her at age 13, when she joined the Harris family on an overseas holiday in 1978.

The woman told the court she was taking a shower at their Hawaii hotel and was wrapped only in a towel when Harris gave her "one of his big hugs and tickles".

She said the performer then put his fingers into her crotch area.

The woman said she felt "numb" and disgusted after the abuse happened.

When she was 15, she said Harris sexually assaulted her in her bedroom, before laughing and joking with her parents downstairs."

Another....

"A second witness told the court she was 13 or 14 when Rolf Harris groped her buttocks at a celebrity event in Cambridge."

And...

"A third witness said she was only seven or eight years old when the entertainer assaulted her in Portsmouth after she had asked him for an autograph.

She said the entertainer put his hand down her back and between her legs. He then did it a second time, she told the jury."

And I think this one was quite young - and in the pub as part of theatre troupe celebration with Harris...

"Another Australian witness, Tonya Lee, asserted that Harris had indecently assaulted her twice in an English pub during a theatre trip to the UK in 1986."

Grown men interfering with young adolescent or pre-pubescent girls is not on...no matter how many people say you're only having a "grope".

Sexual abuse of children is horrendous and intolerable.

The fact that Rolf Harris committed many of these offences in
plain sight of people - indicates that he thought his
celebrity status placed him above the law.

We haven't even begun to calculate the damage that
Mr Harris's crimes have done to the victims.
There is no doubt that Mr Harris's reputation
has taken a severe battering.
Rightly so.

Mr Harris was an adult who misused his position -
preying on vulnerable - innocent children. And there is no
excuse for that behaviour.
None.

In addition to the 4 complainants in the trial, another 6 women
gave supporting evidence that the artist and entertainer had abused them in Australia, New Zealand, and Malta, between 1969 and 1991.
None of the accusers knew each other.

It is very important that we all do everything we humanly
can to protect vulnerable young people.

Excusing the behaviour of men like Mr Harris
is not the way to do it.