Hewlett Packard Uses Gary Glitter's Music in TouchSmart TV Ad

Convicted child sex offender Gary Glitter is alive and well and making money thanks to a new ad for Hewlett Packard's TouchSmart TV.

The ad features the background track of the 1973 release of 'Do you want to touch, yeah" a hit by Glitter. Booming across the airwaves the ad is seen as showing a distinct lack of sensitivity toward the cause of child sexual abuse prevention by child advocates.

See and hear the ad here: http://h30418.www3.hp.com/index.jsp

Evin Daly, President of Child Abusewatch.net (CAN) and a Guardian ad Litem with the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach, wrote a personal note on behalf of Child AbuseWatch to Mark Hurd, HP Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President and to the Hewlett Packard board of directors pointing out this egregious oversight. In addition to expressing outrage that the ad was produced with such poor taste, Mr. Daly suggested that they fire their ad agency. No comment was available from HP.

The hit song "Do you want to touch, yeah" was released in 1973 by Garry Glitter in the UK. Glitter was recently expelled from Thailand after serving a jail sentence for having sex with children. He is a previously convicted pedophile in the United Kingdom. The NFL and NHL stopped using his music due to Glitter's pedophilic convictions last year.

Read about him here in this Times article: 'Gary Glitter - mad, bad or just dangerous to know?'

AbuseWatch.net is a national child abuse prevention organization (www.abusewatch.net) which provides child abuse prevention resources to the general public and to 36,000 Guardian ad Litem and Court Appointed Special Guardians nationwide. Privately funded, 100% of all donations go directly to children in need through Guardian ad Litem Programs.