BBC Scandal - Huw Edwards formally suspended over payment of explicit images of teenager Read OP*

I dispute very little of what you say but we’re talking apples and oranges to a degree.

Unacceptable behaviour is an in-house HR issue, albeit given it’s a public figure beholding to the public confidence, there’s certainly a duty on the BBC to conduct a proper enquiry and have a clear outcome. If there was enough “evidence” that such behaviour went on, then some form of disciplinary action should have been taken, quite possibly up to and including dismissal or forced early retirement or whatever. Public pressure and distaste for whatever the proven allegation (non illegal) was, may dictate the outcome anyway

We didn’t get that outcome from the BBC, but they do have a track record on cover ups and dragging their heels, so their non-action up to recently is absolutely no reflection on the seriousness or otherwise of what they were presented with in May.

It’s now up to the police, assuming they’ve been handed all relevant material, to decide if there’s a criminal element to this story- there are claims from the parents that money was exchanged in return for sexual related content since the youngster was 17- if true, that’s a serious allegation with a serious outcome. To what degree the police, right now, can unravel this story to get to the truth, we’ll know in time I guess.

Sky News:Now

BBC presenter spoken to 7 weeks after complaint.

No senior executive or BBC boss was told about these allegations until July

BBC investigations team decided no criminality based on information they had

Only contacted the presenter once additional information relating to alleged criminality came to light

BBC investigation now suspended pending police investigation outcome

On BBC news channel - the weather 🤪

So the police are investigating?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41181055.html

Don't you love the emotive language used by the rag sun. Parents of "The Child". - So will the sun admit to putting topless pictures of children on page 3 for many years? I'd go as far as stating that the sun has in the past published topless pictures of children in order to sell to and gratify its typical readership.

It was the mother of a young adult. The "complaint" was made in May when the girl was over 20 years old. The other "parent" is a stepfather and in the UK a step parent does not have legal control over someone under 18 that is the child of the other parent. And at over 18 they have zero input

Smacks of a parent wanting to find blame somewhere else for their adult child's possible drug issues.

It's a Male 'child' or 'young person', as the BBC are using.

It was said elsewhere that it was a girl (but they could have made an error) - so maybe "young adult" is probably the best description.

No matter, it looks like the sun will need to start back pedalling

This Cliff Richard?

TBF your man in Emmerdale was pretending to be a female on a make up forum, then tracked Amelia down at her workplace and home, stalked her etc.,

Anyway back on topic, selling nude pictures for money is that illegal?

The parents and The Sun seem to indicate it started when he was 17

Whomever it is whether illegal or not, morally wrong so I'd say career is over, BBC should have acted asap not a month later when The Sun exposed

They worded it carefully. They said that when the mother initially approached them she did not want payment.

They did not clarify if payment was subsequently offered and accepted.

Hmm. "when at some stage they threatened to expose the presenter"

If there was a suggestion of blackmail there then Mr X cannot be named legally.

Any fool clicking on a link to the S*n would want their head examined. Anyone posting a link to that rag here would also want their head examined.

This individual is been referred to as a youth/ young person, he's a grown ass adult over 20 years old