Stoney Westmoreland, a 48-year-old actor known for his recurring role as a grandfather in the Disney LGBTQ-inclusive series Andi Mack, has been fired from the show following his arrest last week in Salt Lake City, Utah. Westmoreland allegedly tried to arrange a sexual tryst with a 13-year-old boy.
Police reports say that Westmoreland used a hookup app to exchange sexual messages with someone he thought was a 13-year-old. (It’s unclear whether the boy actually existed or whether police merely set up the profile to lure people in.)
Westmoreland reportedly asked the boy for sex and nude photos, also sending nude photos of himself. The Salt Lake City Police Department and FBI Child Exploitation Task Force reportedly arrested Westmoreland when he sent a car via a ride sharing app to transport the boy to his location.
He has since been charged four counts of dealing in materials harmful to minors and soliciting sex from a minor.
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In a statement, Disney Channel wrote, “Given the nature of the charges and our responsibility for the welfare of employed minors, we have released him from his recurring role and he will not be returning to work on the series which wraps production on its third season next week.”
The age of consent for boys is 18 in Utah, though people can marry (with their parents’ permission) as early as 15.
A little over a year ago, Andi Mack became the first live-action Disney Channel show to have an openly LGBTQ character.
In the show’s groundbreaking October 2017 episode, Cyrus — a friend of the show’s titular heroine Andi Mack — realizes that he has a crush on a boy named Jonah. Cyrus may also feel attracted to girls, but his feelings compel him to come out to his friend Buffy in a local cafe.
Here’s the Andi Mack coming out scene below:
Brian
This sounds like exactly the thing that public officials in Utah, of all places, would choose to set up. There’s still no confirmation of whether the person *exists,* and there is no explanation of if/how the guy knew the person’s supposed age. And yet, it’s now news everywhere.
I’ve learned not to blindly trust cops’ reports. Cops in Utah investigating sexual issues? Against a defendant who is a minority? A minority that the state church loudly denigrates? Come the hell on. This needs quite a bit of fact-checking!
Juanjo
I’m not clear on what you are trying to argue here. If as alleged, Westmoreland was on some app trolling for minors, which does happen, the police have every right to nail him. This is not the first time that someone has used these apps to pick-up a minor. Cops know this and many police departments have a group which patrols the apps looking for people doing this sort of thing. That is not illegal. It is also not illegal for a cop to pretend to be an underage minor. It is no different than cops pretending to be drug buyers and approaching a dealer on the street. It is not entrapment if the person arrested is actually soliciting the criminal act whether it be buying drugs, selling drugs, buying sex, selling sex, or any other illegal act.
I agree that it is not wise to simply trust the cops who wrote the report. But the evidence will show what happened. If he was not soliciting sex with a minor then his attorney has a very good defense.
PinkoOfTheGange
at what point is an adult seeking sex with a 13y/o A. O. K. with you?
crowebobby
Where in any judicial code is “loss of employment” part of the sentencing guidelines? Not referring to this particular case, any case at all.
DHT
it isn’t part of any judicial code…it’s part of the morality clause with his employer. What are you arguing for? You can’t really believe Disney should keep a pedophile on the payroll?
PinkoOfTheGange
None. Courts can only recommend that professional licenses are suspended unless the defendant agrees, although they may be able to disbar a lawyer from their court, I believe.
But actions have consequences.
crowebobby
DHT: No, I agree that anyone picked in the raid of a gay bar should have his name published in the local newspapers and lose his job. (Actions have consequences.) As Hussain-TheCanadian puts it: “Have sex with someone that at least passed the 20 year old mark…” Otherwise, accept WHATEVER punishment ANYONE feels you deserve for WHATEVER reason.
Hussain-TheCanadian
WTF is going on with people and having sex with children and preteens like fckin hell – Have sex with someone that at least passed the 20 year old mark, holy shit, go to a bar, get a prostitute, dont do this.
ShowMeGuy
Go to a bar and meet a 16 year old with a fake i.d. who looks 22 years old, who has already been served a drink…..they hit on you…..you see this person at the bar nearly every time you go….and finally one night after getting hit on by the guy…. you go home together.
This happened in St. Louis, MO several years ago. The kid hooked up with several adults from a bar over the span of two years. Two of them were local politicians…one republican and then about 8 months later another one who was a democrat. The republican got out of it, the democrat got sentenced to prison time. The kid wasn’t even punished for having a fake i.d..
These kids these days are on the fast track to adulthood and you can’t tell the difference between a 15 year old and a 20 year old. And any lawyer worth their degree will argue that the defendant thought the child was of legal age….dating sites have age restrictions…. and they were doing adult-baby age-play on-line.
Yes, child molestation is horrible and child molesters are horrible and 14 year olds who get on-line pretending to be adult age, and stalk adults for sex need held accountable for their actions as well.
Hussain-TheCanadian
OK I hear you but I think 99.9% of us can tell the difference between a 13 year old boy and a 16 year old teen right? (Let alone a 20 year old).
MarathonBoy
It really says something horrific about the author of this piece and about Queerty that they see this as gay news.
Meanwhile, there is an actual gay news story related to this show which has not been given any coverage. After the much ballyhooed “coming out” episode in 2017, Disney has systematically sabotaged the gay storyline. Not one character on the show has been allowed to say the word “gay.” More than a year after supposedly “coming out,” the putative “gay” character has never said that he is gay or even that he is generally attracted to boys. He was allowed to say that he had a crush on one particular boy – and then never reveal that crush or show his feelings in any way. Then the show makes clear a few months later that the crush has vanished. The character never discusses this with his parents or anyone else other than briefly with 2 characters. Every character on the show has some sort of relationship or romantic interest except the supposedly gay character.
There is every reason to believe that the show creator and show runner had a full, rich storyline for this character, and that Disney stepped in and prevented it. GLAAD, which initially gave an award to the show’s creators in 2017, has said and done nothing in response to Disney’s actions. It’s a huge story about the loss of gay youth representation, and neither GLAAD nor the so-called “LGBT” media care. Why isn’t Dan Villarreal covering that story instead of equating a pedo pickup with gay news?
PinkoOfTheGange
Even a broken clock is right every once in a while.
ShowMeGuy
Or…..you are reading WAY too much into this.
Keebler ILF
I did see one news story about this on TV, and they said it was a 13 year old GIRL. I wonder if that reporting was a deliberate mistake.
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