Entertainer charged with child sex offenses
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Australian entertainer Rolf Harris was charged with 13 child sex offenses yesterday, the latest in a series of high-profile celebrities from the 1970 and 1980s to be accused by a major British police investigation into child abuse.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Harris, 83, would be charged with nine counts of indecent assault related to two girls in the 1980s and four offenses of making indecent images of a child.
Harris is well known in Australia and Britain as a children’s entertainer with a list of chart hits like “Two Little Boys” and “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” and as a player of the didgeridoo and wobble board.
He once painted Queen Elizabeth’s portrait and has been honored by her for his services to entertainment and charity.
Alison Saunders, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, said the charges against Harris were part of a police investigation code-named Operation Yewtree, sparked by revelations the late BBC TV host Jimmy Savile was a prolific child sex abuser.
“We have determined that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest,” Saunders said.
Six offenses of indecent assault related to a girl aged between 15 and 16 from 1980 to 1981 and three offenses of indecent assault relate to a girl aged 14 in 1986.
Harris was arrested in March, when he was released on bail pending further investigations. He denied all wrongdoing.
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