You know I don't know about mandatory reporting. I suspect not though. It's not something I've come across before as a criminal offence. Professionals who should have followed up on suspicions can face disciplinary action, and in cases of outright negligence or culpability can face criminal charges.
The issue has continued to snowball. It's all coming out now. Not just Savile, but the sexual harrassment and assaults experienced by women in the media almost as a matter of course during the 60s and 70s. And several other entertainers, currently unnamed, have been put into the frame.
An interesting little piece here about the overall culture of harrassment in general in the media during those decades:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19870676
A couple of notable women entertainers have spoken out about the harrassment they went through during their early careers. Sandy Toksvig and Liz Kershaw both have very similar stories of being groped by senior male colleagues (whilst on air in Kershaw's case, working in radio) and having their complaints met with disregard and disdain. In both cases the response to their complaints included being told they must be lesbians if they didn't enjoy it.
Savile himself is now suspected (and indeed his name came up during the original investigations into this situation but there was not enough evidence to pursue) of involvement in a an infamous children's home on Jersey, where kids were sexually assaulted and raped by the poeple in whose care they'd been placed. It went on for years and when it came out a few years ago, it rocked the nation. Absolutely horrific.
Scotland Yard are now following up on 120 lines of enquiry as regards Savile's activities, with potentially 30 + victims. He, Gary Glitter and two other unnamed entertainers are implicated in the rape of a girl, in his dressing room.
His family have removed the ornate memorial gravestone from his grave. Quietly, overnight. It will be stripped of its engraving, broken up and scrapped. Statues of him have vanished. His name has been removed from civic lists of honoured citizens, in Leeds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-19893373