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Child Pornography Was Research, Says British Rock Star

The British rock star Pete Townshend admitted today to having paid to view child pornography on the Internet but denied he was a pedophile and said it was for research purposes. Mr. Townsend, guitarist with the band The Who, issued a statement after Saturday's issue of The Daily Mail said the police were investigating an unidentified music star as part of Britain's largest-ever operation against Internet pedophilia. Mr. Townshend, 57, said he had paid to enter an Internet site advertising child pornography ''purely to see what was there'' as research to fight the crime. ''I am not a pedophile,'' he

Jackson abuse charges still stand

Judge Rodney Melville ruled there was enough evidence to warrant the charges. He also rejected a request from defence lawyers to exclude evidence seized from Mr Jackson's Neverland ranch and a private investigator's office. Mr Jackson, 46, has pleaded not guilty to 10 child abuse charges. He is due to stand trial in January. The pop star did not attend the latest in a series of pre-trial hearings in Santa Maria, California, on Thursday. Judge Melville said the alleged victim's evidence to a grand jury was enough for a trial to go ahead. More : news.bbc.co.uk

Accusations fly at white man in child-custody case

HOUSTON -- A white man used his expertise as a lawyer to facilitate a scheme to take a black child from his mother, an attorney told jurors Tuesday in opening statements of a custody case that has outraged the city's black community. Jim Moore plotted ``to maneuver himself into legal position where he could take this child from his family,'' said Rock Owens, a lawyer representing the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. ``Mr. Moore wants to More : nl.newsbank.com

Lauderdale authorities net almost $50,000 in child support payments

Given that the economy is slowing down, the number of parents claim they do not know to pay, children can take charge because they are unemployed, on the rise. Lauderdale County during a raid on a non-custodial parent, the children are not paying support in March, many of the 42 people arrested during the cancellation of debt payments to the unemployed or working in a new job, pay less than the old ones, "said Glenda Child Beckwith, coordinator of care Lauderdale District Attorney's Office. The courts and offices of law enforcement take care of the child to achieve a change

Child-Abuse Conviction Of Woman Is Overturned

A New Jersey appeals court yesterday overturned the conviction of Margaret Kelly Michaels, who was accused of sexually abusing 19 children at a day-care center in Maplewood, and who was sentenced to 47 years in prison after a celebrated trial in 1988. A three-judge panel ruled that Ms. Michaels had been denied a fair trial when she was convicted on 115 counts of sexual abuse of the 3- to 5-year-old children in her care, said Robert Seidenstein, a spokesman for the state court system. The panel ruled that the prosecution of the case had relied on testimony that should have

Two Jackson witnesses deny abuse

Wade Robson, 22, and Brett Barnes, 23, were the first witnesses to be called by the defence at Mr Jackson's trial. They were regular visitors to the star's ranch in the early 1990s and admitted sharing a bed with him. Mr Jackson, 46, denies 10 charges including child abuse and kidnap. If convicted, he faces 20 years in jail. Earlier, the judge declined a defence motion to have the charges thrown out. Mr Robson, an Australian-born dancer, told the trial in Santa Maria, California, that he first stayed at the Neverland ranch in 1989. He said he slept in the

Radio Writer Pleads Guilty In Child Pornography Case

A veteran radio reporter pleaded guilty today in Federal court to violating the nation's child pornography laws, saying he did so to hasten his appeal that he was trafficking in lewd photos of minors on the Internet as part of his First Amendment right to research an article on the subject. The reporter, Larry Matthews, a freelance journalist who works for National Public Radio and public television in Maryland, was scheduled to go on trial in suburban Maryland on Tuesday on 15 counts of using his computer to trade images of under-age girls engaged in various sexual acts with other

No test for Jackson abuse accuser

Defence lawyers said they needed to conduct their own mental evaluations of Jackson's accuser and his family ahead of his child abuse trial in January. But Santa Barbara Superior Court judge Rodney Melville denied the request at a pre-trial hearing on Monday. Singer Mr Jackson, 46, has pleaded not guilty to 10 child abuse charges. The defence team said it needed to conduct tests on the accuser, his brother and mother in order to effectively cross-examine a psychiatrist who interviewed them before the charges were brought. But Judge Melville said he would hear no argument on the issue. Mr Jackson's

Ex-Bay City Roller admits having child pornography

A former Bay City Roller has admitted having child pornography at his home in Edinburgh. Derek Longmuir, 48, who was the drummer of the 1970s tartan rock band, pleaded guilty at Edinburgh sheriff court yesterday to two charges of possessing indecent films, photos, videos and computer images of children. Longmuir, a nurse at Edinburgh royal infirmary, claimed the material belonged to a friend. He also admitted downloading four indecent pictures from the internet on his computer, but said it was only curiosity while taking a break from studying for a nursing degree. Sentence was deferred until March 24 for

Madison Heights man pleads guilty in child porn case

Madison Heights A man pleaded guilty today in the detention of more than 150 pornographic photos of children. Corey Dean Meeks, 41, was arrested in July, after the authorities maintain, "he says with a report a year-Undercover police Virginia Beach, chats, as a girl of 12 years. During the months until his arrest, Meeks has sent more than three dozen "sexual" images of adults and children who Undercover policeman, Amherst Commonwealth's Attorney Stephanie Maddox said. The authorities seized two computers Meeks' at home and in July 1200 were more than sexually explicit images on the computer, Amherst County Sheriff's Office