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Star suspects
     "Rock legend Peter Townshend, 57, was arrested by
Scotland Yard detectives on charges of making,
possessing and incitement to distribute 'indecent
images of children.' 
     "The arrest stems from information provided by
U.S. law enforcement officials who found that
Townshend's name and credit card were entered four
times in the database of a couple convicted in the
largest child-pornography case in U.S. history, which
became known as 'Candyman.' Townshend's information
was included in a list of more than 7,200 British
citizens who were in the database. British authorities
have dubbed their investigation 'Operation Ore.' 
     "Until Townshend's arrest, 'Operation Ore'
received scant mention by any media outside of Great
Britain, where it has received huge, daily coverage
because of the continued arrests of men of all ages
and occupations.
     "The suspects now number more than 1,300. They
include a judge, doctors, a deputy school headmaster,
the deputy director of a prison, a civil servant, two
hospital consultants, a classics teacher at a public
school, and police officers  50 of them  eight of
whom have been charged formally. They are 'ordinary
and regular' people who are neighbors of ordinary and
regular people who have children. Few of them or their
children are likely to come in contact with a
celebrity like Townshend.
     "The media will continue to focus on Townshend,
and the ordinary and regular folks will miss the
bigger picture."
     Janet LaRue, writing on "Rock Legend's Arrest is
Tip of Child Porn Iceberg," in the Jan. 16 issue of
the Culture and Family Report


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