Porn Star Austin Wolf Pleads Responsible Enticement of a Minor

The grownup entertainer — actual title Justin Heath Smith — entered the plea in a Manhattan courtroom earlier in the present day, following his arrest on baby pornography fees greater than a yr in the past.

For brief docsthrough Satisfaction.comWolf “knowingly, utilizing a facility and technique of interstate and overseas commerce, persuaded, induced, enticed, and coerced a person who had not attained the age of 18 years to have interaction in prostitution and sexual exercise for which an individual may be charged with a prison offense.”

The docs declare Wolf additionally “aided and abetted the identical, and tried to do the identical, to wit, Smith and one other particular person induced a 15-year-old minor to have interaction in sexual actions whereas in New York, New York.”

“In late 2023 or early 2024, I induced a 15-year-old to have interaction in a intercourse act, I do not keep in mind by textual content or (social media), however telephones have been positively used,” he stated, per New York Submitwho reported he was additionally “starting to sob” as he spoke.

“I do know what I used to be doing was unsuitable,” he continued. “I apologize. I knew it was unsuitable once I did it. I do not blame anybody else for my conduct. (Though) It was one other particular person partaking within the conduct. I take full one hundred pc duty for my actions and I’m ready for the results.”

Per the Submit, lesser pornography fees will probably be dropped at his sentencing in September. Based on Decide Paul Engelmayer, Smith faces face a compulsory 10-year sentence and a most sentence of life in jail.

Smith was arrested in June 2024, with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in New York’s Southern District and James Smith of the FBI, accusing him of “sending and receiving tons of of movies of kid pornography” through Telegram.

“These movies depicted kids as younger as infants, together with a video displaying a 10-year-old baby certain and raped,” they claimed in a press launch on the time.

Per the 2024 launch, Smith “utilizing an nameless Telegram account, exchanged tons of of movies containing baby pornography with one other particular person whose telephone was later seized and searched by the FBI pursuant to a search warrant.” An spy then started speaking with the account, with Smith allegedly revealing “particulars that confirmed his id.”

The Telegram communications went down between March 24 and twenty eighth of final yr, per the discharge.

The FBI then executed a search on Smith’s Manhattan condo, with the Lawyer’s Workplace saying they then discovered an SD card “with tons of of movies containing baby pornography.”

On the time, he was charged with one depend of distribution and receipt of kid pornography and one depend of possession of kid pornography. He was not, initially, charged with enticement of a minor.