Townshend ‘Naive And Foolhardy’ To View Child Porn

Mark Stephens, a lawyer with Finers Stephens Innocent who founded the Internet Watch Foundation, says there is no excuse for The Who guitarist Pete Townshend’s paying for internet child porn. “It is OK to lobby. There are many high-profile individuals who fight against child pornography,” Stephens told the Sunday Mail. “But it is wrong-headed, misguided and illegal to look at or download or even to pay to download pedophiliac material and if you do so, you are likely to go to prison. Pete Townshend has admitted a criminal offense and if this goes to mitigation and it’s a matter for a court to accept if he was merely doing research or something worse.”