Institutional value accrued to the perpetrator made him feel and be treated as untouchable

Evidence

A former BBC producer, Wilfred De’Ath, warned Savile that he was “living dangerously” when he spent a night in a seedy hotel with a 12-year-old girl (Alleyne, 2012). Savile replied that he was invulnerable: “Oh no no no no. … I’m much too valuable to the BBC for them to do anything to me” (Alleyne, 2012). He was not boasting. De’Ath went on to say that Savile’s sexual activities were widely known among his colleagues, but no one intervened: … “Nobody grassed [informed the police] on him in any way, although we all knew” (Alleyne, 2012). Another former BBC producer, Esther Rantzen, described him as “untouchable.” She said, “We all blocked our ears to the gossip.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 561

Categorization

• XREF: Perpetrator’s perceived indispensability to an institution suppresses reporting by everyone who knows — the ‘too valuable to touch’ rationalization from the reader’s mechanism synthesis.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 561