Under UK law, the act of accessing an image onto your screen is classed as "making" it, or re-making it really. So Townsend isn't involved at the production end. But the media love to overuse the words Paedophile, abuser etc to improve the story.

It appears that Mr. Townsend like 7000 other UK residents and 14,000 US people, payed to see what they knew were paedophile images. These are pictures of any child under the age of 18, which covers an awful lot of ground. If we had first degree etc etc paedophilia, Townsend would be up for third degree.

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