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"Townshend was arrested in 2003 in Britain as part of a child pornography sting but later cleared. He accessed a Web site containing child pornography but said it was for research for his own campaign against child ****. He was required to register as a sex offender, despite being cleared."
If he was cleared in a court of law this should have nothing to do with the original posting. I will not be the one to judge the man.