The public broadcaster did not suspend the accused immediately after the first suspension complaints while his details have not yet been made public
The pressures against him BBC continue after allegations emerged that one of the public broadcaster’s featured presenters paid a young man to send him pornographic images.
The presenter, whose name has not been revealedwas made available yesterday Sunday.
On Friday night, “The Sun published the testimony of a mother, accusing a star BBC presenter, without naming him, of giving her child, then 17, several tens of thousands of pounds in exchange for pornographic photographs. The publication does not specify whether the child is a girl or a boy.
The mother accused the presenter of “ruining the life” of her now 20-year-old son, who within three years became a “crack addict ghost”.
According to the newspaper, the family contacted the BBC on May 19 to inform them of the situation, but o presenter continued to present shows for several more weeks.
Today, the Sun reported that the presenter, “one of the BBC’s biggest stars”, “made two panicked calls” to the young man last week. She was asking him to call his mother to “stop the investigation.”
The case hit the headlines in British media over the weekend, prompting star BBC presenters to speak out publicly saying they are not at the center of the allegations.
The political class reacted strongly. Today, on the BBC, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk criticized her the BBC’s decision not to suspend the presenter since the first revelations.
“Since such serious and disturbing allegations have been made and the BBC has been made aware of them, I would expect the person in question to be suspended,” he said.
Shortly after an emergency phone call between Culture Secretary Lucy Fraser and the public broadcaster’s chief executive Tim Davey, the BBC said in a statement on Sunday “that a male member of staff was suspended and that the BBC is “trying to establish the facts as quickly as possible”.
Last night, London police said they had been made aware of the case by the BBC “but no formal charges have been made”.
The BBC has already been hit by serious sex scandals most seriously that of Jimmy Savile.
Source :Skai
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