1st post here. Not sure how to do thing yet. Just saw this and thought the details were interesting. Maybe he chose to publicly confess rather than the alternative he was offered?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54344910

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bbc-presenter-child-abuse-wales-154058411.html

The victims of a former BBC presenter who admitted sexually abusing children and adults often had “no idea” about what he did to them, a court has heard.

Ben Thomas, of Flint, Wales, pleaded guilty to 40 offences including sexual activity with a child, sexual assaults and making indecent videos of children at Mold Crown Court in July.

The 44-year-old’s sentencing hearing began on Tuesday.

The offences, which also included indecent assaults and voyeurism, took place over a 30-year span from 1990 and many took place at Christian camps and conferences, the court has heard.

They took place against 33 male victims aged between 11 and 34, and he confessed to the crimes in a police interview in 2019, the court was told.

Thomas assaulted his victims as they slept.

Prosecuting, Simon Rogers said: “The vast majority of victims had no idea he had sexually assaulted them.

“It was as a result of his admissions in interview they were told.”

When, in some instances, his victims awoke to see him in their room he would pretend to be sleepwalking, the court heard.

One victim who woke up during an assault said he felt the bed shake and was “extremely frightened” because he thought “dark spirits” did it to him, Rogers said.