Pete Cleared!

[The Real Me <emerald.eyes@xxxxxxx>]

My dad just called me after hearing on the car radio that Pete has
essentially been cleared! : )

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030507/ap_on_en_mu/townshend_investigation_2

<<Townshend Cleared of Possessing Kid Porn 
7 minutes ago  


LONDON - Pete Townshend (news) was cleared Wednesday of possessing
pornographic images of children. But The Who guitarist was warned by
police not to access a Web site containing images of child abuse. 

   

Townshend was arrested in January on suspicion of making and
possessing indecent images of children. The arrest was part of
Operation Ore, an FBI (news - web sites)-led crackdown on Internet
child pornography. 


After a four-month investigation, London's Metropolitan Police said
Wednesday that the rocker "was not in possession of any downloaded
child abuse images," but had accessed a site containing such images in
1999. 


The musician acknowledged using his credit card to enter a Web site
advertising child pornography but said he was doing research for his
autobiography. 


The title character in Townshend's rock opera "Tommy"  a deaf, dumb
and blind pinball wizard  is sexually abused by an uncle, and
Townshend said he believed he had been sexually abused as a young boy,
while in the care of his mentally ill grandmother. 


Police said it was not a defense "to access these images for research
or out of curiosity." 


As part of the cautioning procedure, Townshend's fingerprints,
photograph and a DNA sample will be taken by police, and he will be
placed on a national register of sex offenders for five years. 


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


The group, founded in London in the early 1960s, was part of the first
British rock invasion, alongside the Rolling Stones and The Beatles.
Their hits included "I Can See for Miles," "Pinball Wizard" and "Won't
Get Fooled Again." >>

I have a few sites on which to post this and rub some people's noses
in it. ;)

Leslie


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