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Pete and Child Porn :( :(
by Seven 10 Replies latest jw friends
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Seven
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LDH
This guy too. You might remember him as the principal in Ferris Beuller's Day Off.
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Beans
I heard this on the radio today, and his excuse was he was abused as a child and is writing a book and was doing it for research! I wonder if the book idea is a very recent one.
This is one disease I cannot comprehend, anyone who is into this kinda stuff is totally whacked and does not see the innocence of children! LOCK EM UP!
Beans
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ThiChi
Hey, let the poor fellow have his day in court. I read Petes interview and his story sounds reasonable. Innocent until Proven guilty is a sound standard.
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ThiChi
Cops can come and get me
By DOMINIC MOHAN
Showbiz EditorWHO star Pete Townshend last night told The Sun he wants cops to come into his home and check his computer for child porn.
The rock legend, 57, said he was "deeply wounded" by suspicions he was a child porn pervert.
He admitted he had looked at porn sites three or four times after accidentally stumbling across one.
He said he had been driven to see what sort of material they contained for research and out of anger at how easy they were to access.
But in a world exclusive interview with The Sun, he insisted he was NOT a paedophile and that his actions had been stupid rather than sinister.
The millionaire spoke out after it emerged at the weekend that a British rockers credit card details were on a list of subscribers to a vile website in Texas.
The list, compiled by US authorities, included some 7,000 British names passed to police in this country.
Townshend said: I am not making any excuses. I am angry about child porn on the internet, and deeply wounded at the inference that I might be a paedophile.
I have looked at child porn sites maybe three or four times in all, the front pages and previews.
But I have only entered once using a credit card and I have never downloaded. With hindsight it was very foolish but I felt so angered about what was going on it blurred my judgement.
Townshend said he spoke to a lawyer friend about visiting the sites and had been advised to keep silent.
He was outraged when he first came across them while surfing the Net with son Joseph, now 16, about six years ago.Staying mum ... ex-wife Karen yesterday
And he stressed: I have never purchased any forms of child pornography or wished to own any. I saw the first awful photo by accident. It repelled me and shocked me to my very core.
I was not breaking the law at the time. This was in the winter of 1996/1997. It was then illegal to download, which I did not do, not to search and view.
I did not think using a credit card was illegal either at the time. As a public figure I would never have given details had I known I would be breaking UK law.
I need to regain the trust of police and authorities involved in protecting children to continue to use my energies and determination to help what they do.
Townshend, who believes he was abused himself as a little boy, went on:
I was stupid to try to deal with my anger about child porn on the internet alone.
We must try to stop it but if we cant do that we should invest our energy in helping victims of abuse. I believe I may have suffered some sexual abuse which makes me angry about all this stuff.
If my celebrity has a value perhaps it is to get the reality of this problem once and for all back into the public mind.
Ive never been attracted to children. My own abuse is half-remembered, and I now think was probably at the hands of a male guest of my maternal grandmother when I was living with her while my parents tried to work out a marriage problem. -
Simon
If he was so appalled why the hell did he give them his credit card details ?!?!
Doesn't make sense to me ...
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ThiChi
Simon:
A fair question. Pete is a very visible force, could he have been doing research on this problem, and obtained entry to understand the full spectrum of this terrible aspect of child abuse? He himself has described his actions as "poor judgment" on his part.
(Please, I know this is a stretch, but God in Heaven, I want to believe that he may have a legitimate, honest agenda. I am running out of heros in this world....dont have many left)
Edited by - thichi on 13 January 2003 18:27:24
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kril
The principle off Ferris (Mr. Rooney) is into kiddy porn? I'll be damned!
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ISP
I think the cops have more stuff on this guy.....i.e. other downloaded stuff. I think the excuse is a poor one. If you want to do research why do you go and watch the stuff.
ISP
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Yizuman
This just came out on The Smoking Gun
Yizuman
