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The television presenter Jimmy Savile was a far more prolific sex offender than previously suspected, a charity said Monday, citing at least 500 reports of abuse involving children as young as 2 and victims in a high-security psychiatric hospital. Mr. Savile, a major BBC celebrity and charity fund-raiser in the 1970s and 1980s, was unmasked after his death in 2011 at 84 as one of Britain’s worst sex offenders. He took advantage of children at hospitals and BBC premises, relying on his celebrity status to block any complaints. Research by the charity, the National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children, showed that there had been at least 500 reports of abuse filed against Mr. Savile, more than the previously suspected 140, with most of the victims said to be 13 to 15 years old. The television presenter Jimmy Savile was a far more prolific sex offender than previously suspected, a charity said Monday, citing at least 500 reports of abuse involving children as young as 2 and victims in a high-security psychiatric hospital. Mr. Savile, a major BBC celebrity and charity fund-raiser in the 1970s and 1980s, was unmasked after his death in 2011 at 84 as one of Britain’s worst sex offenders. He took advantage of children at hospitals and BBC premises, relying on his celebrity status to block any complaints. Research by the charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, showed that there had been at least 500 reports of abuse filed against Mr. Savile, more than the previously suspected 140, with most of the victims said to be 13 to 15 years old.