Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood has claimed that Hollywood is immersed in a child sexual abuse scandal bigger than the Jimmy Savile scandal that rocked Britain recently. The former child actor claims that pedophiles are protected by the elite in Hollywood, and that abuse is still rife in the entertainment industry to this very day. Telegraph.co.uk reports: In an interview with the Sunday Times, Wood said he had been protected from abuse as he was growing up, but that other child actors had been regularly “preyed upon” at parties by industry figures. “You all grew up with Savile – Jesus, it must have been devastating,” he said. “Clearly something major was going on in Hollywood. “It was all organised. “There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind. “There is a darkness in the underbelly – if you can imagine it, it’s probably happened.” Wood said the abuse was allowed to continue because victims “can’t speak as loudly as people in power.” “That’s the tragedy of attempting to reveal what is happening to innocent people,” he said. “They can be squashed but their lives have been irreparably damaged.” Allegations [...]