Utah men accused of sex with minors
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Three Utah men have been booked into the Salt Lake County jail in connection with making a sex video and engaging in sexual activities with underage girls during a Mardi Gras trip to New Orleans.

Ian Walston, 31; Bryan Clark Christensen, 22; and David Atiquallah Khwaja, 23, were each booked into jail Thursday on two counts of third-degree felony "fugitive from justice" charges.

They are awaiting extradition to Louisiana to face sex-related charges there, said Walston's attorney Susanne Gustin.

The men are accused of making sex videos with themes similar to the "Girls Gone Wild" series and posting the videos on a Web site called "Hot Girls Unleashed," Gustin said.

Gustin said Walston went on the trip with Christensen and Khwaja, but her client wasn't aware the two men were participating in sex films while on vacation. Walston wasn't around while the other two were making the videos inside an RV borrowed from Walston's mother to make the trip to New Orleans, Gustin said.

She said she wasn't sure where her client was located when the filming took place, but that he "did not authorize people to film underage girls" inside his mother's RV.

Gustin said she is representing Walston on a similar case in Utah, where he is accused of sexual misconduct in connection with an incident that happened in his mother's RV in Draper. He has not yet been charged in that case, Gustin said, and investigators are still sorting through the details of the allegations in that case.

Gustin and Walston were set to meet with an investigator from Utah's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force this week to discuss Walston's Utah case when he was arrested in connection with the Louisiana case, Gustin said.

Bail has not been set for the three men.

mrogers@sltrib.com

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