Dame Caroline Dinenage, who chairs the Culture, Media and Sport committee, says she is concerned the corporation has taken a 'very long time' to investigate the claims.
Dame Caroline Dinenage, who chairs the Culture, Media and Sport committee, says she is concerned the corporation has taken a"very long time" to investigate the claims.The BBC"clearly has questions to answer" after one of its presenters was accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs, a senior Conservative MP has said.
The young person's mother said that while she complained to the BBC on 19 May, it was"obvious" to her that the corporation had not spoken to the man by the following month.The presenter is said to have first requested images in 2020 when the teenager was 17, and has allegedly made a series of payments since then.
The youth, who is now aged 20, used the money to fund a crack cocaine habit which"destroyed" their life, their mother has also claimed.leads many news websites including the BBC's own, what are the questions it needs to answer?• Did it immediately try to contact the family? How many attempts were made to contact the family?
• What is the date when the presenter was first spoken to? Was the presenter spoken to after the initial complaint was made?• Given there were concerns that the child's life was in danger, was the BBC's response satisfactory? • Does it intend to investigate whether payments to the child continued after the family first contacted the BBC?• Is the licence fee payer contributing to the presenter's mobile phone costs?BBC needs to 'get a grip' says Rachel ReevesIn an interview with The Sun on Sunday, the young person's mother said:"We just wanted the BBC to tell him to stop."Now 20, her child has used the man's money to fuel a serious drug problem, she said.
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