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Pete Townshend- Pedophile?
 

offline b0nk from 1969 in the sunshine (United States) on 2003-01-13 16:57 [#00513139]
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just because hes a rockstar doesnt mean he's innocent, and
just because jerry hall says hes innocent doesnt mean he is,
likewise just because the newspaper says he is a pedophile
doesnt mean he is.

heh


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-01-13 17:01 [#00513140]
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are you questioning the authority and authenticity of the
daily mirror? i can't believe that, i really can't


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2003-01-13 17:47 [#00513185]
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Pete Townsend sucks, he can get fucked......yeah...uh....who
is he anyway ?!


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2003-01-13 17:48 [#00513187]
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Why couldnt Pete Towendhend die instead of MAURICE GIBB !?
The world is unfair......


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2003-01-13 17:50 [#00513188]
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wait


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-01-13 18:08 [#00513195]
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2 down, 2 to go


 

offline b0nk from 1969 in the sunshine (United States) on 2003-01-13 18:33 [#00513213]
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lol well sorry not familiar with that paper.


 

offline Dolleater from Afrika Bambaataa on 2003-01-13 19:21 [#00513258]
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Well, it happended.

LONDON (Jan. 13) - Pete Townshend, the legendary rock
guitarist and co-founder of The Who, was arrested Monday on
suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, police
said.

Townshend has acknowledged using an Internet Web site
advertising child pornography, but said he was not a
pedophile and was only doing research for an autobiography
dealing with his own suspected childhood sexual abuse.

Police said they arrested Townshend, 57, under the
Protection of Children Act after executing two searches at a
business and a home in Richmond, Surrey, the town outside
London where he lives. They said they took computers from
the home and were examining them.

Townshend was not charged with a crime. Under British law,
suspects are not charged immediately upon arrest and some
people who are arrested are eventually released without
charge.

Townshend was being held at a southwest London police
station.

In a statement on Saturday, Townshend said that on one
occasion he used a credit card to download pornographic
images as part of his research and that he reported what he
saw to police.

Townshend, who helped form The Who in the early 1960s, said
he believed he was ''sexually abused between the age of five
and six and a half.''

''I cannot remember clearly what happened, but my creative
work tends to throw up nasty shadows - particularly in
'Tommy.' Some of the things I have seen on the Internet have
informed my book, which I hope will be published later this
year,'' he added.

The title character in Townshend's rock opera ''Tommy'' - a
deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard - is sexually abused by
an uncle.

Earlier Monday, a group of police officers arrived at
Townshend's Richmond home, one carrying a plastic crate
containing packaging to store potential evidence.

His lawyer John Cohen told reporters the meeting with police
was by ''mutual agreement.''

''We approached the police this morning and said that we
should meet,'' he said.

Townshend, unsh


 

offline Dolleater from Afrika Bambaataa on 2003-01-13 19:22 [#00513260]
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...unshaven and wearing a black jacket, left his house by a
side entrance at 7:20 p.m., about four hours after police
arrived, and was driven away.

Scotland Yard later announced that a 57-year-old man was in
custody on suspicion of making and possessing indecent
images of children and of incitement to distribute them. A
police spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity,
confirmed that the suspect was Townshend.

The arrest came as part of Operation Ore, a crackdown on
people who view child pornography on the Internet.

British police have arrested 1,300 suspects as part of the
sweep, including a judge, magistrates, dentists, doctors and
a deputy school headmaster. Fifty police officers also have
been arrested, and eight have been charged with offenses.

Operation Ore is the British arm of an FBI-led operation
which traced 250,000 suspected pedophiles around the world
through credit card details they used to pay for downloading
child pornography. The names of British suspects were passed
on to police here by U.S. investigators.

Townshend's friend, the model Jerry Hall, said Sunday he was
an ''avid supporter'' of child welfare groups and had spoken
at length about the dangers of child pornography on the
Internet.

Roger Daltry, Townshend's bandmate from The Who, said: ''My
gut instinct is that he is not a pedophile and I know him
better than most.''

But Internet watchdogs have dismissed Townshend's
explanation for entering an Internet site dealing with child
pornography.

Mark Stephens, a lawyer and vice chairman of the Internet
Watch Foundation said: ''It is wrong-headed, misguided and
illegal to look at or download or even to pay to download
pedophiliac material and if you do so, you are likely to go
to prison.''

Townshend was one of The Who's four founding members, along
with bassist John Entwistle, singer Daltry and drummer Keith
Moon. Moon died in 1978 and Entwistle died last year.

The group, founded in London in the early 1960s, was part of
the British rock invasion


 

offline Dolleater from Afrika Bambaataa on 2003-01-13 19:23 [#00513261]
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well you know the rest.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2003-01-13 19:29 [#00513267]
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In other news, Lionel Ritchie has sewed a water buffalo
pussy to his lips to educate schoolchildren what not to do.


 

offline Dolleater from Afrika Bambaataa on 2003-01-13 19:30 [#00513268]
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link! link!


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2003-01-13 19:36 [#00513271]
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here


 

offline b0nk from 1969 in the sunshine (United States) on 2003-01-13 20:38 [#00513342]
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this story is on the main page when u sign on to aol, if
anyone even does here
har har


 


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