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Originally Posted by PatriotsReign
Was the girl 16 and told Pete she was 18? I dunno....
My honest answer is I don't know enough to judge the situation.
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What girl??? There was no girl. I have to wonder if you even read the article.
Townsend checked out a child-porn Web site in 1999. In 2003, he was arrested for suspicion of possessing indecent images of children. He cooperated with police, they confiscated 14 computers from his home and found no evidence of child porn on any of them - or anywhere else. He was cleared of that charge, but by simply visiting the site and being "cautioned" by the police, he spent five years on Britain's Sex Offenders Register.
Read the article - it's fairly well written and detailed.
I figure he did his time and served his sentence and that oughta be it. It hardly sounds like he's some big pervert child-molester. It almost sounds as though he was researching - he's got a history of being sexually abused as a child - supposedly Tommy was written loosely based upon himself -and he also wrote a 6 page article about a friend who committed suicide who'd been sexually abused as a child.
Far as I can tell there's no evidence than the one access to a child porn site in 1999- and he's done his time and paid his dues.
Sometimes I think they carry the whole "sex offender registery" way too far. Whipping it out and peeing on someone's lawn in a moment of drunken teenhood or having sex with your 17 year old girlfriend when you're only 18 yourself hardly seems like it should be cause to ruin your whole life. There have been teenaged girls arrested for sending child porn when they've texted nude pic of themselves to their boyfriends. Not smart to do, of course, but hardly enough to brand you a sexual predator for the rest of your life.
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