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Gigs & Festivals
Child abuse charity criticise NFL’s Who booking
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 4 January 2010
An American child abuse charity has hit out at the NFL’s decision to let The Who play the high profile half time show at next month’s Superbowl.
ChildAbuseWatch.net say they have a problem with Pete Townshend playing the event because of his 2003 arrest and police caution for accessing child porn. As much previously reported, Townshend has always maintained he only accessed the sites as part of research for a book he was writing which would deal with child abuse. He was cleared on a separate charge of possessing indecent pictures downloaded from the web.
But the CEO of the US charity told reporters last week: “The Who is a great band. Pete Townshend is the only issue here”. But the NFL are standing by their booking, with a spokesman telling the Associated Press: “UK police cleared him since he was doing research for a project on child abuse”.
