Porn web address on C&A T-shirts
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By Michael Leidig in Vienna
C&A has withdrawn 60,000 children's T-shirts from its stores across
Europe after discovering that a web address printed on the front was a
link to a hard-core homosexual porn site.
Police in Germany began an investigation after the chain received
complaints from parents whose youngsters logged on to the website. A
spokesman for the company at its head office in Dusseldorf said: "All
these T-shirts have been withdrawn from sale across Europe."
He said that only a few hundred of the shirts had been sold. Refunds of
£20 were available for those who had bought them. The company knew of only
two that had been sold in Britain.
The head of C&A Germany, Dominic Brenninkmeyer, said that those
responsible "should have noticed the mistake" and that the company first
realised there was a problem when a mother complained. She said that her
son had asked her what was happening when he logged on to the pornographic
website written on the shirt.
Chris Williams, head of corporate communications at C&A in London, said
that all managers in the UK had been instructed to supervise the removal
of the offending T-shirts from shelves and to see that they were burned.
He said: "C&A is a family company and any suggestion that we would have
had any idea of what this link meant is clearly ludicrous.
"We do not know how it happened. Obviously there was a link somewhere
along the line between the manufacturer and the web page. I can tell you
that an enormous amount of resources is being poured into tracking down
those responsible."
source:Electronic Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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