18 years ago. Last night Esther, 72, the founder of ChildLine, insisted she had heard only one rumour about the pervert and young children -- when she was a 21-year-old BBC researcher. Esther ... founder of ChildLine Ken McKay / Rex She said she retained "an absolute passion" for ChildLine and added: "It would be such a great shame if all that work was sabotaged by this. I have tried desperately hard to help children, to bring abusers to justice. "Fame and reputation don't mean a great deal to me. What I want to do is continue my work campaigning for children." She faces being dumped as a patron of another charity, the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, due to the storm. Esther insists she does not remember meeting campaigner Shy. Victim was pregnant A WOMAN abused by Jimmy Savile when she was a heavily pregnant teenager has told of how he preyed on her "vulnerability". Christine Williams, 63, met Savile in 1966 when she was 17 and just weeks away from giving birth. She was living at a Salvation Army women's home in Salford because she was unmarried and her family were ashamed of her. Pregnant teen ... Christine Neil Jones Savile had a bedsit a few hundred yards away -- and was a regular visitor. Christine, of Wythenshawe, Gtr Manchester, said: "We were vulnerable, the lowest of the low. We were clearly pregnant and very young. "We went to see him. He kissed us and tried