"Unfortunately, the guy's also a pedophile."
I think he was cleared of all charges. I think he stated he was doing research and went about it in the wrong way.
Perhaps I'm wrong.
Yeah, that's it. Sort of like someone who gets caught hauling bags of cash out of a bank vault was just going about getting a loan in the wrong way...
IIRC, Pete admitted he was confused about his sexual identity and attributes such confusion to childhood situations (I think his parents were in show business). IRC, he views his problems with alcohol and drugs to this childhood trauma. He made some really odd statements about his "feminine side" etc. which needed to be worked out. The story goes that he was researching childhood abuse on the internet.
In the end the authorities in the UK (the UK is a police state compared to the US with public and private cameras watching your every move) cleared him of charges because they investigated his claims.