I hadn’t realised it was against children too, I just went and googled and he said this in 2013
In the interview, which touched on Jimmy Savile's abuse, Roache said: "If you accept that you are pure love, and if you know that you are pure love … these things won't happen to you."
When asked by interviewer Garth Bray if that meant "victims bring things on themselves", Roache said: "No, not quite, but and yet I am … everything that happens to us has been a result of what we have been in previous lives."
I know it was 11 years ago but WHAT. THE. duck.