BBC embroiled in another pedophile scandal
Published 1 Apr, 2026 21:09 | Updated 2 Apr, 2026 05:25
The BBC has been embroiled in yet another scandal involving child sexual abuse allegations against one of its top presenters.
On Monday, the British state broadcaster confirmed that it fired the star of its Radio 2 breakfast show, Scott Mills, “following allegations about his personal conduct.” It did not elaborate further.
According to Sky News, the BBC presenter was being probed over past allegations of sexually abusing a child under the age of 16 – the UK’s age of consent.
The Metropolitan Police had initially launched an investigation in December 2016 relating to “allegations of serious sexual offenses against a teenage boy,” the news channel reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement.
The alleged crimes reportedly took place between 1997 and 2000.
“As part of these inquiries, a man who was in his 40s at the time of the interview, was questioned by police under caution in July 2018,” Sky News cited the police force as saying, adding that the probe was eventually dropped due to lack of evidence.
Mills was among the highest-paid BBC stars, with an annual salary of more than £355,000 ($473,000), according to the corporation’s 2024-25 pay report.
There is a long record of crimes involving minors being committed by BBC personalities. Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall, and Rolf Harris all abused children while working for the corporation, with the latter two serving sentences for sexual assaults involving girls as young as seven. In 2024, news presenter Huw Edwards was sentenced for possessing indecent images of children. Edwards received a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, meaning he will only go to prison if he reoffends during that period.
Savile allegedly abused as many as 450 victims – most of them children or young people – over the course of five decades. His alleged crimes shook the UK following his death in 2011, prompting an unprecedented investigation into how the BBC handled the issue.
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Muslim Georgetown prof who justified slavery and rape now tells UK Muslim rape gang victims to ‘get over it’
This is no surprise. Georgetown professor Jonathan Brown, a convert to Islam, has cheerfully embraced the idea that Islam condones slavery. He said: “I don’t think it’s morally evil to own somebody.” He also condoned the rape of female non-Muslim war captives: “Consent isn’t necessary for lawful sex.” His father-in-law, Sami al-Arian, is a convicted jihad terror leader.
The fact that a doctrinaire Muslim hardliner and slavery and rape apologist would hold a respectable professorial chair in a major university is an indication of how advanced the rot is in our Saudi- and Qatari-funded colleges and universities. Jonathan Brown is not a jihadi, but he is a thoroughly rotten human being. Why do so many converts to Islam fall into this category?
Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon ordered to pay accusers $880K
Gilbert Rozon, the founder of Just for Laughs, has been ordered to pay a total of more than $880,000 to eight of the nine women who had accused him of sexual assault and misconduct.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Chantal Tremblay awarded the damages in a written decision released Tuesday, following a civil trial that lasted 10 months.
The women suing Rozon were seeking $14 million in civil court for incidents that occurred between 1980 and 2004, during a period when he founded the international comedy festival.
“This judgment therefore aims to bring this long trial to a close and to reaffirm that an infringement of personal integrity, when proven, calls for a legal response proportionate to the extent of the harm suffered,” Tremblay said in her decision.
Rozon had claimed he had consensual relations with three of the nine women, and had denied the other allegations against him, saying his accusers had formed a coalition against him with the aim of getting rich. He countersued four of the women for defamation, demanding $275,000 each in damages.
Tremblay rejected his four counterclaims, and also ordered that he pay the women’s legal costs.
Following the allegations, Rozon stepped down from Just for Laughs in 2017 and later sold the company.
Nine women — Patricia Tulasne, Lyne Charlebois, Anne-Marie Charette, Annick Charette, Sophie Moreau, Danie Frenette, Guylaine Courcelles, Mary Sicari, and Martine Roy — went public with their allegations when they filed their claims against Rozon. All of them except Sicari were awarded damages in Tuesday’s ruling.
Only one of a series of police complaints against Rozon resulted in a criminal trial. In that case, he was found not guilty on charges of rape and indecent assault connected to events alleged to have taken place in 1980 involving Annick Charette.
In Tuesday’s ruling, he was ordered to pay Charette $95,000.
The prosecution declined to press criminal charges in 13 other complaints.
The women who had sued Rozon were scheduled to speak with reporters later in the day.
