Exclusive: Gay Porn Star Blu Kennedy Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Charge
Former gay porn star Blu Kennedy (legal name Benjamin Martin)—who starred in nearly 100 gay porn scenes at over a dozen different gay adult studios from 2006 through 2012—has pleaded guilty to one felony child porn charge after being arrested and indicted along with his boyfriend (who faced the same charge) in May of 2017.
Following a superseding indictment and sealed plea agreement made last month, Kennedy pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the possession of child porn (in the initial 2017 indictment, the charge was aiding and abetting as well as possession of child porn, but Kennedy’s charge has been revised—and apparently reduced—to remove the possession aspect).
As Str8UpGayPorn first reported in May of 2017, Kennedy was arrested and indicted in San Francisco after police discovered hundreds of child porn files on his electronic devices. Kennedy’s boyfriend, a UCSF psychiatrist named Billy Lockhart (as seen below with Kennedy), uploaded and shared the child porn online via UCSF wi-fi, and he pleaded guilty last September. Lockhart is currently serving a three-year prison term for possession of child porn, and Kennedy faces up to 10 years in prison for aiding and abetting the possession of child porn. Kennedy is currently out on bond while awaiting sentencing, which is scheduled for September 25th, 2019.
Believe it or not, Blu Kennedy wasn’t the only gay porn star who was convicted on child porn charges last month, as former gay porn star Sebastian Young was adjudicated guilty on his own child porn charges in Florida around the same time that Kennedy pleaded guilty in California. On May 16th, Young pleaded no contest (after serving about 1,000 days in prison while awaiting trial) to 10 child porn charges involving his daughter, and he’s now a registered sex offender in the state of Florida. Just six days earlier, on May 10th, Kennedy pleaded guilty to his child porn charge, as seen below in court documents.
