Given all the everyday injustices, cruelty, misery and suffering thatchildren's charities come across in their work, it must take a lot toprovoke fury.
So why were the charities so enraged? Townshend had published a shortstory online. Part of it was a character's reminiscences of early sexualexperiences, aged 16.
Pointing out that Townshend is on the Sex Offenders' Register, TinkPalmer, of children's charity Stop It Now!, thought what he did was"most ill-advised". Michele Elliot, director of Kidscape, toldjournalists: "Responsible adults should not put graphic details ofteenagers having sex on the web. It's just a form of titillation."
Err, and that's it.
- A headline in the Daily Telegraph alerted its readers to dramatic newsabout schools. "School vetting 'fails to keep out perverts'."
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