Secret Porn Filming Case Comes to a Close With Sentencing

MIAMI, Fla.—Bryan Deneumostier, the Peruvian native who posed as a woman on Craigslist and enticed straight men to come to his hotel room to have sex, only to surreptitiously film the encounters and post them on the gay-oriented website StraightBoyz.com, has been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Miami to three years in prison. Deneumostier pled guilty to two counts of violating "Unlawful Recordings of Individuals" (18 U.S.C. §2511), though a U.S. Department of Justice press release dated today described the crimes as "illegal interception of oral communications." (We're guessing, no pun intended.) The charges stemmed from the fact that Deneumostier, posing online as "susanleon3326," a "real, heterosexual female," lured men to a hotel room, blindfolded them and promised that "Susan" would come along shortly to give them blowjobs. "In several of these advertisements, Deneumostier would state he was either a man looking for men (m4m), a transvestite looking for men (t4m), or a woman looking for men (w4m)," the DOJ PR noted. "In most advertisements, he stated he was looking for 'young sexy guys.'" But whoever the ads said he was, the blowjob giver was actually Deneumostier himself, and it was the fact that Deneumostier digitally recorded the encounters and posted them on the Madrid-based website StraightBoyz.com without their permission (and of course without obtaining the ID information required by 18 U.S.C. 2257 for all sexually explicit material) that led to his prosecution. Although not charged as an accessory or co-conspirator, the owners of StraightBoyz.com paid Deneumostier a $3,000-per-month stipend to assure that he would continue to post the sexual encounters to their website. It's unclear which of the roughly 150 men with whom Deneumostier recorded himself having sex, 80 of whom allegedly did not know Deneumostier was recording their encounters, formed the basis of the two federal charges. According to the Justice Department, "The indictment and plea agreement refer to four known victims whose identities are being withheld to protect their privacy." But part of Deneumostier's guilty plea included the provision that he would not face charges of having violated the 2257 law by not obtaining proper IDs for his subjects. U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonga of the Southern District of Florida also ordered Deneumostier to serve three years of supervised release following completion of his sentence.