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Men may face life sentences for sex videos
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Three Utah men face charges they taped pornography featuring underage girls in New Orleans for a Web site fashioned after "Girls Gone Wild."

Bryan Clark Christensen, 22, of Bountiful; David Atiquallah Khwaja, 23, of Midvale; and Ian Walston, 31, of Salt Lake City; were arrested last week after police found pornographic videos of two girls, ages 16 and 17, in their RV, said Steve Gamvroulas, an agent with the Internet Crimes Against Children task force.

Christensen and Khwaja could be facing life in prison if found guilty of carnal knowledge with a juvenile, pornography involving a juvenile, indecent acts with a juvenile, all felony charges, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor charge.

Walston faces the same charges, with the exception of carnal knowledge with a juvenile.

The group traveled to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, where they allegedly invited women into an alcohol-stocked RV belonging to Walston's mother and taped them in various sexually explicit poses and acts. The tapes were then posted to "Hot Girls Unleashed" Web site that is a business registered to Walston, Gamvroulas said. They made about 17 tapes with several different women and two were allegedly juveniles. Christensen and Khwaja are accused of taping themselves having sex acts with the girls. Walston is not.

"If you saw them, you would know they were under 18," he said.

Walston's attorney Susanne Gustin said Saturday her client wasn't there when the tapes were made.

The mother of one of the girls reported the incident to police in Louisiana, but by then the three had left the state.

In April, police responded to a noise complaint at a party in Draper. The same RV, draped with a "Hot Girls" banner, was outside and other underage girls were inside.

Draper police found the recording equipment and the Web site, and they turned the case over to Gamvroulas. He found the New Orleans tapes and traced them to the reports filed there.

The three will have an extradition to Louisiana hearing today. They are not facing charges in Utah.

Two of three Utah men allegedly had sex with minors in Louisiana
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