Adult film actor Justin Heath Smith, also known as Austin Wolf, has been arrested and charged with possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material online , the Department of Justice announced Friday. In an unsealed complaint, an FBI agent said that Smith, a 43-year-old resident of New York City, sent and received hundreds of videos containing depictions of child sexual abuse via the Telegram messaging app.
An undercover FBI agent started messaging Smith’s account, where Smith later revealed personal details, according to the complaint. Smith ran a Telegram channel linked on one of his websites with over 12,000 subscribers. The next month, the FBI raided Smith’s Manhattan apartment and found an SD card with child CSAM, the complaint says. “I want to make it clear: those who distribute child sexual abuse images prey upon the most vulnerable in our society.