DHAKA: The late broadcaster and MP Sir Clement Freud, who died aged 84 in 2009, has been accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and 1970s.

Sylvia Woosley, who first met Freud when she was 10 and was sent to live with him at 14, told the ITV Exposure program that he abused her for years.

A second woman, who wants to remain anonymous, claimed he abused her as a child and raped her when she was 18.

His widow Jill Freud, 89, said she was ‘deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women’.

In the documentary, Exposure Abused and Betrayed - A Life Sentence, due to be broadcast on Wednesday, Woosley, now in her late 70s, said that ‘I just want to clear things up before I die. I want to die clean.’

‘Having been so hard on myself, trying to destroy myself so many times, you can’t bury the truth forever, it needs to be heard.’

‘I don’t want to take this to my tomb.’

‘I would like to just return to the child I was before I was molested physically, before I was introduced to that side of life too early.’

Woosley claims that he kissed her on the mouth during a bus trip.

She said, ‘I was disgusted and helpless. I just didn’t react in any way because I couldn’t. I didn’t know what to do.’

She said he frequently molested her during the five years she lived with Freud and his wife in London, where she had been sent to live at 14 years old following the breakdown of her mother’s marriage.

Later, aged in her early 40s, Woosley said she confronted Freud at the House of Commons and asked why he had abused her.

She says he replied ‘Because I loved you. You were a very sensual little girl’.

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