The UK’s Operation Hydrant pedophiles hunt is exposing hundreds and hundreds of perverts in very high places, some of whom, thankfully, are long dead.
British investigators say those prominent sex crime suspects include some of the kingdom’s most powerful politicians and high-profile celebrities, in what’s proving to be the biggest child sex abuse scandal since the Catholic Church fessed up to similar wrongdoing.
But, believe it not, when all is said and done, pedophile priests might seem fairly tame in comparison.
Hydrant’s massive operation is being coordinated by a policing liaison titled the “National Police Chiefs’ Council” which organizes the findings of pedophilia investigations by law enforcement agencies throughout England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
NPCC’s main mission is to organize and process historical allegations of sexual abuse of minors, which have increased 71-percent since posthumous reports of wide-scale sex abuse first emerged against famed DJ talk-show host, Jimmy Savile.
Savile and his celebrity crew alone are rumored to have victimized nearly 1000 boys and girls, so the numbers of victims coming forward to aid Operation Hydrant today is undoubtedly boggling.
Chief Constable Simon Bailey who chairs Hydrant, said newly named suspects “are increasing on an almost daily basis” and adds that “the numbers I refer to today are [merely] a snapshot in time.”
Many of the youngsters targeted by prominent UK pedophiles were among the nation’s most vulnerable, with an estimated 1000 institutions implicated, including 154 schools, 75 children’s homes, and 40 religious organizations, as well as various police departments and personnel who helped cover-up reported assaults.
While the majority of child sexual exploitations alleged to date have occurred between the 1970s and 2000s, some cases go as far back as the 1940s.
That timeframe encompasses some 250 or more pedophile sex offenders, like Savile himself, who managed to escape arrest and prosecution through death … but not a public shaming.
Which means, now, as Hydrant’s dragnet steadily widens, Britain’s super elite and heretofore protected class of child molesters can say goodbye to all the secrecy and special treatment they’ve been enjoying for decades.
At least 1433 of them, anyway -- at last count.
