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 youngster pornography expenses greater than a 12 months in the past.

Per court docket docs, by way of Satisfaction.com, Wolf “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 interact in prostitution and sexual exercise for which an individual might be charged with a felony 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 interact in sexual actions whereas in New York, New York.”

“In late 2023 or early 2024, I induced a 15-year-old to interact in a intercourse act, I do not keep in mind via textual content or [social media], however telephones had been positively used,” he mentioned, per New York Submit, who reported he was additionally “starting to sob” as he spoke.

“I do know what I used to be doing was improper,” he continued. “I apologize. I knew it was improper after I did it. I do not blame anybody else for my conduct. [Although] It was one other individual participating within the conduct. I take full 100% accountability for my actions and I’m ready for the implications.”

Per the Submit, lesser pornography expenses will probably be dropped at his sentencing in September. In response to Choose 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 a whole lot of movies of kid pornography” by way of Telegram.

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

Per the 2024 launch, Smith “utilizing an nameless Telegram account, exchanged a whole lot of movies containing youngster pornography with one other particular person whose cellphone was later seized and searched by the FBI pursuant to a search warrant.” An secret agent 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 12 months, 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 a whole lot of movies containing youngster 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.