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| From | Michael Coxe <michael@audities.net> |
| Subject | Tonwshend story seems to be at a close |
| Date | Wed, 7 May 2003 21:03:59 -0700 |
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18016
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."
For additional details pick your own story slant...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=townshend
- michael
NP: Bubblegum Motherf***er
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