Disney star Stoney Westmoreland gets jail time for sex crimes
“Andi Mack” actor Stoney Westmoreland has been sentenced to provide two many years in federal prison for intercourse crimes involving a insignificant.
Soon after his time in jail, the 52-calendar year-outdated will be subject to 10 a long time of supervised launch and is essential to sign up as a sex offender.
The former Disney Channel star was very first apprehended in Salt Lake Town, Utah, in December 2018, according to Deadline.
He was billed in connection with striving to entice a insignificant into sex.
When lawmakers in the beginning wanted Westmoreland to provide a 10-year sentence, he entered a plea deal instead that authorized him a lessen charge.
His lesser indictment said that he made use of interstate workings to transmit information about a small.
The “Scandal” actor’s plea deal also indicates that he need to cooperate with random queries on his electronic units as well as report his email and social media accounts.
Westmoreland is barred from make contact with with people who are less than the age of 18 and without having adult supervision.
The outlet noted that again in 2018, he was making use of the Grindr dating app when he discovered a profile of a supposedly 13-yr-previous boy.
The profile was truly developed by detectives in Salt Lake Metropolis, where by Westmoreland’s Disney show was being filmed. He was fired from the kid’s exhibit shortly soon after his arrest.
Authorities said at the time that he hired a automobile from a journey-sharing application to meet up with the teen so they could retire to his lodge space. Police also claimed he despatched NSFW photos to the youngster and requested nude snapshots in return.
Westmoreland was taken into custody wherever he admitted to police that he sent bare images, and understood the specific he was chatting with claimed he was a teenager.
His legal professional Wendy Lewis told Fox News a short while ago that he thought he was talking to an grownup on the courting application.
“Mr. Westmoreland maintains that he thought the man or woman he was speaking with was probable an adult partaking in part-perform,” Lewis stated. “Had there been an actual small there when he arrived, he would have still left.”
She also defined that Westmoreland was analyzed by Dr. Fred Berlin of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Therapy of Sexual Trauma. The doctor experienced testified that the monitor star showed no sexual interest in youngsters.
Lewis included, “Due to the chance of a minimum 10-year sentence and conservative Utah juries, Mr. Westmoreland agreed to plead to the lesser offense of transmitting info about a small for the goal of partaking in sexual action.”
