UK TV host faces sex abuse charges

British TV presenter Rolf Harris is to be prosecuted over three more allegations of sexual abuse, including one against a “seven or eight-year-old” girl.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the veteran entertainer will face charges of alleged assault against females aged 19 in 1984, aged seven or eight in 1968 or 1969, and aged 14 in 1975.

The three counts are in addition to 13 alleged sexual offences, including nine counts of indecent assault and four of making indecent images of children, which the entertainer was charged with earlier in August.

“These three allegations were included in the file sent to the CPS by the Metropolitan Police in August of this year; however, as part of the ongoing review process for all cases, it has been decided that these allegations should be formally added to the indictment as further counts”, a CPS spokesperson said.

Harris will first face a plea hearing on January 14. His trial is scheduled to begin on April 30.

The 83-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in September where he was released on bail and his case was referred to a hearing at Southwark Crown Court.

The indictment of the aged UK celebrity comes as part of Operation Yewtree investigation, which was set up after hundreds of allegations of abuse against former BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile emerged following his death in 2011.

Harris’s case, however, relates to the third strand of the investigation, which is investigating allegations of abuse not related to the Savile scandal, but which emerged in its wake.

Savile died in October 2001. A year after his death, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse and rape of minors became public, leading the police to believe that he was one of Britain’s most predatory sex offenders.

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