Stoney Westmoreland, Disney’s ‘Andi Mack’ actor, pleads guilty to child sex charge
“Andi Mack” alum Stoney Westmoreland has been condemned to two years in jail subsequent to arguing down to a lesser accusation in the wake of being blamed for attempting to draw a minor into sex.
Westmoreland, who played the granddad on the Disney Channel sitcom, conceded to a lesser allegation of utilizing highway offices to send data about a minor and was hit with two years in jail and 10 years of managed discharge, as opposed to the 10 years in jail he was at first confronting, TMZ detailed Sunday.
The entertainer was initially charged in 2018 after he supposedly reserved a vehicle to meet his thought process was a 13-year-old for sex while recording in Salt Lake City.
Examiners said Westmoreland was utilizing Grindr, a gay dating application, and thought he was conversing with a little fellow with plans to take him back to his lodging. All things considered, he had really been speaking with a covert cop while he was sending and requesting explicit photographs, as indicated by his capture sworn statement.
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Westmoreland’s attorney asserted that the entertainer knew the whole time that he was conversing with a grown-up and thought they were pretending, as indicated by TMZ.
Disney cut attaches with Westmoreland hours after his 2018 capture.
“Given the idea of the charges and our obligation regarding the government assistance of utilized minors, we have set him free from his common job and he won’t be getting back to work on the series which wraps creation on its third season one week from now,” the organization said in an explanation.
Past “Andi Mack,” Westmoreland additionally showed up in shows like “S.W.A.T.,” “Better Call Saul,” “Specialists of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Outrage” and “Gilmore Girls.”
