London - In life, he was a knight - revered by almost every household in England, a friend to many of the popular political figures and government functionaries during his time. He was not just a knight of the British kingdom, he also received a papal knighthood, in the same year that he was knighted by the Queen of England.

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When he died in 2011, victims of former BBC TV star Jimmy Savile's abusive behavior gained more courage to come out and reveal stories about how Savile used his powerful position in British society to abuse children, young men, women, and the aged he used to visit in a number of British hospitals were he worked as a volunteer. His victims' ages ranged from five years old to 75.

More shocking details of Jimmy Savile and his life as a serial sexual predator have come out in the open, as the National Health Service and the Department of Health released Thursday consolidated reports about investigations into Savile's activities in at least 28 hospitals, where he used his access as a volunteer and philantrophist to sexually abuse hospital staff, visitors, and even patients.

Among the cases outlined are several abuses committed against children and teenagers, whose parents Savile befriended when they were either visitors or patients in the hospitals.

Read one of the reports here

Due to his strong connections with the management of those hospitals , and even closer ties with British government officials , his victims did not complain about the abuses. And if they did, nothing came out of flimsy investigations conducted by police and hospital authorities.

The official health agency reports are the results of investigations that started in 2012, a year after Savile's death. The investigations were launched after hundreds of allegations about his predatory sexual behaviour  - child sex abuse, rape, and even necrophilia - came out in the open.

An ITV documentary in October 2012 prodded police to conduct a series of investigations, finally revealing that Savile committed sexual abuses across England, even in the premises of the BBC where he hosted of popular TV shows Tops of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It.

Upon release of the reports, UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt spoke in the British House of Commons, and apologized to the victims, at the same time acknowledging that the system failed in protecting even those who had the courage to report the abuses but whose complaints were ignored.

"Savile was a callous, opportunistic, wicked predator who abused and raped individuals, many of them patients and young people, who expected and had a right to expect to be safe, " Hunt said. "The family favorite loved by millions courted popularity, and used it to perpetrate his own evil acts."

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