the who's peter townshend had the same excuse, didn't he? > townshend accepted a caution from the metropolitan police (the met) as part of operation ore, a major investigation on child sexual abuse images conducted in 20022003. the met stated that "it was established that mr townshend was not in possession of any downloaded child abuse images". townshend was on a sex offenders register for five years, beginning in 2003, after admitting he had used his credit card to access a child sexual abuse images website. townshend said he accessed the images as research in a campaign against child sexual abusespecifically, to prove that british banks were complicit in channelling the profits from paedophile rings. authorities could not prove that the website accessed by townshend involved children, and no incriminating evidence was found on his personal computer.
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