Unfortunately, the guy's also a pedophile.
He was never charged - the investigators apparently bought his side of the story.
"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.
I never bought that, and I don't buy it now.
If I call you a pedophile, does that make you one?
Some people think it does, you among them.
Pedophile? Not quite. He was arrested, investigated, and cleared of all charges.
Townshend Charge Dropped
No child porn downloads found on seized computer
Augustin Sedgewick, Rolling Stone, May 7, 2003
After an investigation that lasted nearly four months, police in London cleared Pete Townshend yesterday on charges that he downloaded child porn from the Internet. Computer equipment seized by officials from Scotland Yard at the time the Who guitarist's arrest in January failed to turn up any illicit downloads, police said. Investigators did confirm that Townshend had accessed a site containing such images in 1999; as a result, he was listed on a national register of sex offenders.
"From the very beginning," Townshend said in a statement, "I acknowledged that I did access this site and that I had given the police full access to my computers. As I made clear at the outset, I accessed the site because of my concerns at the shocking material available on the Internet to children as well as adults, and as part of my research toward the campaign I had been putting together since 1995 to counter damage done by all kinds of pornography on the Internet, but especially any involving child abuse."
In their investigation of the matter, the Crown was satisfied that he was not.
He was never charged, and if they had the goods, they would've charged him.
It was probably a plot by the vast Left-wing conspiracy.
Nope.
Cleared of all counts.
Ohfercryinoutloud........he is not a pedophile, for God's sake. Anyone who even attempted to keep up with the news knows the whole story on that stupid, sordid little bit of press sensationalism. He was acquitted of any and all charges (and never broke a sweat during the process; innocence is its own best defense).