BBC presenter scandal timeline as male member of staff suspended

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An unnamed BBC presenter has been suspended after being accused of paying a teenager more than £35,000 for sexually explicit photos in bombshell reports.

The male BBC presenter - who is reportedly a "household name" - made a series of payments to the young person starting when they were 17 years old.

It comes after reports that the mother of the alleged victim claims that the money given to her teenager was used to fund a drug addiction of crack cocaine - which "destroyed her child's life."The mother alleges that the unnamed BBC presenter stripped to his underwear during a video call with her then teenage child, who is now 20, according to reports in the Mirror.Let's take a look at the timeline of the scandal so far, including a male employee's suspension, the celebrities who have denied being the person in question, the involvement of the police and the broadcasting giant's response.It was widely reported on Friday that a BBC presenter was facing an investigation after allegedly paying a young adult under the age of 18 a large sum of cash in return for sexually explicit images.The mum of the alleged victim came forward to break her silence during an interview with The Sun where she says her teenager, only 17 at the time, was given £35,000 in return for explicit images.

She says the alleged victim used the money to fund a drug addiction. "One time he had sent £5,000 in one lump. The money had been in exchange for sexually explicit photographs of my child," the mother told the publication.The mum further claims her child, now 20, allegedly went from a "happy-go-lucky" teen to a "ghost-like" addict in just a number of years.