Banker, you have your facts wrong. Had he not told the police he had done that, they actually would have had no evidence of him doing it.
Do you even know the facts behind this? Apparently not. .
To be fair, Banker is not the only person on this thread who seems not to be in possession of critical facts about what Townshend was doing in the years leading up to the arrest, who else was aware of these actions, and what evidence is available with regard to these 2 points...
Actually - this is an astonishing thread. To accuse a Multi-Millionaire of being a paedophile, either on Twitter or on LPF seems risky to me.*
In fact - It makes no sense.
If I were to throw out such a serious charge - in public - I would first do a little bit of research . And having done that research it would then be obvious that Townshend was telling the truth about his motivation for paying for access to that website, and it would also be obvious that had he rejected the caution and gone to trial, the evidence would have seen the case quickly dismissed.
* Of course the accusation of Paedophilia was made 6 years ago, so the forum member(s) should be able to sleep easy.
Or can they......?
You may have noticed that I am not a USA citizen, but, with regard to the statute of limitations on libel claims, if Pete Townshend were to join this forum tomorrow, a forum of which he was previously completely unaware, and was then to discover this thread, It is possible that his Lawyer might wish to argue that......