Pete Townshend a pedophile?

[Don Vito Corleone]

Weird stuff - he was apparently caught buying child pornography over the Internet, but claims he did it for "research." Read more here. Sounds fishy to me - last time I checked, he was not exactly working for Scotland Yard . . .

 

[boyRacer]

Riiight...

 

[brtspears2]

I look at porn for research ... of human structures.

 

[notfred]

I could see someone doing that.

 

[shiner]

Give's new meaning to The Who's song The Seeker

 

[wnied]

"Rough Boys ....I wanna bite an kiss you!" (Pete Townsend - Rough Boys)

Methinks Petey went a little too far with the whole kiddy porn thing.
~wnied~

 

[Kadarin]

Busted, and now he's scrambling for excuses. Pete Townsend may or may not be a genuine pedophile, but purchasing actual child porn strikes me as directly contributing to an industry that sexually exploits children. Not a good thing..

An interesting and legitimate questions then is what to do with people who are identified as genuine pedophiles (people who are sexually attracted to prepubescent children). Some of these people no doubt have no choice about it, any more than homosexual people have a choice about being the way they are.

 

[Nocturnal]

Man, wouldn't you know, there are a lot of people with this problem. Damn I wonder what happend to them? :\

 

[DaveSimmons]

I hope Townshend is telling the truth. Reading the article I'm willing to give him some benefit of the doubt, but only a little.

"To fight against pedophilia, you have to know what's out there," he said, adding that he was involved in an anti-pedophilia campaign that had fizzled out.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

An interesting and legitimate questions then is what to do with people who are identified as genuine pedophiles (people who are sexually attracted to prepubescent children). Some of these people no doubt have no choice about it, any more than homosexual people have a choice about being the way they are.

I may be biased (I have prosecuted several child molesters), but in my opinion they should be permanently removed from civilized society to a place where there are no children (i.e., prison, or a locked mental facility). To me, no crime has greater victim impact than child molestation, and the science shows true pedophiles are not amenable to rehabilitation.

 

[waggy]

i dont care if he is a pedo or not. he should do time for buying the stuff.

claiming it was to see what was on the site is a lame excuse. If it was any other person you all would be yelling to cut his balls off.

regardless if he is a rock star or not i hope he goes to jail.

 

[Booster]

The operation has resulted in more than 1,300 arrests nationwide, including 50 police officers and is partly based on information supplied by American law enforcement agencies.

What's up with the world lately? So many sick people out there.

 

[Greyd]

I may be biased (I have prosecuted several child molesters), but in my opinion they should be permanently removed from civilized society to a place where there are no children (i.e., prison, or a locked mental facility). To me, no crime has greater victim impact than child molestation, and the science shows true pedophiles are not amenable to rehabilitation.

I'd have to agree with you there Don Vito. I work in education and have worked with many kids who are/have been abused and it REALLY pisses me off to no end. Maybe this is too extreme, but I think they should all be shot.

 

[SSP]

Won't get fooled again.

 

[Pliablemoose]

From the article:

He said he predicted many years ago the Internet would "subvert, pervert and destroy the lives of decent people."

Guess he might be adding one more life to that list.

 

[WileCoyote]

my brother works at a center for teenage girls who were victimized as children and are now in trouble with the law.

the stories i hear... like a set of parents that had 3 kids just so they could pimp them out to friends and neighbors. all of their kids were under the age of 10 when the parents began selling their services.

what pete did is wrong, but it can get a lot worse.

 

[StinkyMeat]

CNN article

 

[Miramonti]

He may be telling the truth. If he paid more than once then the truth would come out and if he's a pedofile the truth might come out too. But I don't see any reason to not believe him based on this. He should have used better judgement tho.

 

[idNut]

I know a social studies teacher who is most definitely a pedophile. I'd like to snap his neck.

 

[Pepsi90919]

leave the man alone.

 

[Red Dawn]

Doesn't one have to have sex with a child to be a pedophile? I agree that it's sick to be a collector of child porno but it isn't the same as being a sexual predator. In fact isn't any porno featuring someone under the age of consent child porno? I can assure you that a lot of the porno on the internet would fall into the category. Some of you Kleenex Clowns who collect Porno probably have some form of child prono in your collection.

 

[waggy]

Wow i cant belive some of you are defending this scum.

I have worked with Foster care for years. We have seen girls who are abused and traumatized by this kind of crap. Any guy that contributes to it should be taken out and shot. included this ahole.

the "oh i was doing research" is a load of crap. he was getting his nuts off on the pictures. If anyone here belives the excuse ask yourself would you belive it if it came from someone who was NOT a star?

heck im sure i can answere that. it would be NO! Cut his Dick off! etc..

just because he is well known dont give him the right to look at this kind of crap.

 

[Greyd]

I know a social studies teacher who is most definitely a pedophile. I'd like to snap his neck.

If you know for sure 100% that this teacher is a pedophile, report him to the authorities - get him away from children!

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Doesn't one have to have sex with a child to be a pedophile? I agree that it's sick to be a collector of child porno but it isn't the same as being a sexual predator. In fact isn't any porno featuring someone under the age of consent child porno? I can assure you that a lot of the porno on the internet would fall into the category. Some of you Kleenex Clowns who collect Porno probably have some form of child prono in your collection.

Being a sexual predator & paying someone to gather photos/video for you is a very fine line, and one law enforcement/lawmakers & I think is largely irrelevant. These folks are NEVER cured, and treatment is not an option, they just have bad wiring upstairs.

The age of consent varies from state to state for various activities, but pedophelia is a whole nother animal.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

He said he predicted many years ago the Internet would "subvert, pervert and destroy the lives of decent people."

Subvert?? Nixon?? Now he's lost all credibility in my eyes.