The grownup entertainer — actual title Justin Heath Smith — entered the plea in a Manhattan courtroom earlier at present, following his arrest on little one pornography costs greater than a 12 months in the past.

“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 stated, per New York Submit, who claimed he was additionally “starting to sob” as he spoke.

“I do know what I used to be doing was flawed,” he continued. “I apologize. I knew it was flawed once I did it. I do not blame anybody else for my conduct. 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 implications.”

Per the Submit, lesser pornography costs 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 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 little one 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 little one pornography with one other particular person whose telephone 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 identification.”

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 his Manhattan condo, with the Lawyer’s Workplace saying they then discovered an SD card “with a whole lot of movies containing little one pornography.”

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