Pete Townshend Sex Offender

The Who's Pete Townshend was placed on the U.K.'s sex offender registry for 5 years in 2003. The musician was not convicted of a crime, but admitted to police that he used a credit card to access a child porn website for the purpose of research. Authorities in Scotland Yard concluded that Townshend did not download images and said that he cooperated with the investigation.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1246676/Pete-Townshend-labelled-sex-offender-large-Miami-residents-protest-performing-Super-Bowl-The-Who.html

Townshend stated that the research was for a "campaign" against child pornography that he began "putting together" in 1995.http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/may/08/arts.ukcrime http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/12/1041990179285.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1246676/Pete-Townshend-labelled-sex-offender-large-Miami-residents-protest-performing-Super-Bowl-The-Who.html

Before the Super Bowl XLIV in February 2010, the Protect Our Children group on Brevard County, Florida, distributed postcards warning residents that Townshend would be in the area.http://www.page2live.com/2010/01/27/residents-schools-near-super-bowl-stadium-asked-to-watch-out-for-the-whos-pete-townshend/

The non-profit group Protect Our Children prepared 1,500 "Sex Offender Advisory" post cards warning local residents that Pete Townshend would "be at large in Miami on February 7th when he arrives to perform at the Superbowl with his musical group known as THE WHO." Underneath a photo of Townshend, the postcard reads, "Townshend is British citizen who was a registered as a sex offender in his home country in 2003 for an offense related to child pornography."http://www.page2live.com/2010/01/27/residents-schools-near-super-bowl-stadium-asked-to-watch-out-for-the-whos-pete-townshend/