Savile believed his institutional value made him untouchable from prosecution

Evidence

Savile was not especially cautious in his sexual encounters. For example, at one time he was shown groping a young girl during a live telecast! 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). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 561