Katie Price lodges official Ofcom complaint about Frankie Boyle
Harvey is Katie Price's son with ex Dwight Yorke
Katie's lawyer has filed papers alleging Channel 4 and the comedian breached the 'harm and offence' clause of the Broadcasting Code.
Frankie, 38, made comments about the 8-year-old on Channel 4's Tramadol Nights.
'Jordan and Peter Andre are still fighting each other over custody of Harvey,' he quipped. 'Eventually one of them will lose and have to keep him.'
Frankie later added: 'I have a theory about the reason Jordan married a cage-fighter [Alex Reid]. She needed a man strong enough to stop Harvey from f***ing her.'
Katie, 32, is appalled.
'Harvey Price is a little miracle,' she says.
'Every day he overcomes so many difficulties and has so many battles to win due to his medical problems. I love him and am deeply proud to be his mother.
'If Mr Boyle had a 10th of his courage and decency, he would know that to suggest, let alone think funny, that Harvey may sexually attack me is vile and deeply unfair.'
Katie's lawyer Mark Bateman says they have no option but to formally complain to Ofcom after giving Channel 4 until 5pm yesterday to apologise.
'Channel 4 have got this horribly wrong if they think their actions are defensible because Boyle is high profile or because he has made this joke before,' he tells the Daily Star.
'To ridicule disability is bad enough but to single out a young child as courageous and vulnerable as Harvey is cowardly.
A Channel 4 spokesman says: 'Frankie Boyle is well known for this controversial type of humour and the programme carried appropriate warnings as to the nature of the material.
'The joke aired in the context of a late-night comedy show.'
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