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Heath, who was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974 and died in 2005 at the age of 89, is the most famous British politician to be accused of pedophilia, but he's by no means the first—over the past year, the UK has been consumed by pedophilia scandals, as a parade of public figures, including BBC host Jimmy Saville and multiple former members of parliament (MPs), have been accused of sexually abusing children.After the IPCC statement was released on Monday, Wiltshire police said that they were reopening their own inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse by Heath. Then, just hours after the statements from the IPCC and Wiltshire police, the Daily Mirror published the testimony of a man who claims he was raped by Heath when he was a 12-year-old boy, over 50 years ago.The alleged victim said that he was picked up by the then Conservative MP in 1961 after he ran away from home and that he was taken to a Mayfair flat where he was raped by Heath. The man claims that he reported the attack to social workers two months later but was "fobbed off."On Motherboard: To Treat a Potential Predator
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