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Antoinette Carter <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Isn't this a similar defence to that of Pete Townsend (of the Who) when he
>was caught having been charged on his credit card for something or other
>from a kiddy-porn site. He claimed he was researching a book on child abuse
>at the time. I believe (although I wouldn't bet my granny on it) that the
>judge in that case differentiated between simply "visiting" a porn site, and
>downloading and storing images, and also considered the frequency/number of
>website hits. In other words, he got off with a slapped wrist, because he
>had a plausible explanation (albeit a misguided one) for his single visit to
>the site concerned. What I can't seem to remember is how it is he came to
>be caught....
Pete Townsend's case never went to trial. He was given a police caution
and put on the Sex Offenders Register after admitting the technical
offences (of "making") committed by viewing the site (which were
offences whatever his motives). aiui, no pictures were found on his
computers, so there was no charge of "possession".
He was caught because his credit card number was on a (rather large)
list that American Law Enforcement [1] found when they seized the
servers of a pay-per-view site. (Operation Ore).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3007871.stm
[1] Postal Service investigators, not FBI as is often wrongly reported.
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Roland Perry
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