Ex-hospital patient: "I saw Jimmy Savile molest brain-damaged girl" FRESH claims of sexual abuse have been made against Sir Jimmy Savile, including allegations that he preyed on children during hospital visits. A string of police forces said members of the public had come forward to make complaints. Nurses at Stoke Mandeville are understood to have dreaded Savile's visits and would tell children to stay in bed and pretend to be asleep when he came round. Ms Thornton was recovering from a back operation and said when she told a nurse about the abuse, she was ignored. "I thought he was a visitor coming to see her," she said. He started rubbing his hands down her arms and then - I don't know of a nice way to put it - he molested her. He helped himself. She just sat there and couldn't do anything about it.