KEY POINTS

  • Spark was arrested Dec. 17, 2017, while having sex with a prison inmate 
  • He would pay the inmates if they let him use the footage for the porn video he called "Girls in Jail"
  • He pleaded guilty to three separate charges and was sentenced in each case to probation

A Florida attorney has been disbarred for abusing his attorney privileges for having sex with women in jail and recording these encounters to upload them on an adult website.

Tampa attorney Andrew Spark, 58, was disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court last week with effect from July 2019, reported NY Daily News. Sparks, who was on probation from Feb. 8, 2019, would seek sex from incarcerated women. He would pay them if they let him use the footage for the porn video he called "Girls in Jail."

A statement by Florida Bar said Spark abused his privilege to access private rooms in two separate jail facilities for soliciting prostitution. The court document said he recorded these acts to create an adult pornographic film for his financial interest. He pleaded guilty to three separate charges and was sentenced in each case to probation. Spark has also pleaded guilty to charges of bringing contraband into county detention facilities.

The incident came to light after Pinellas County Jail authorities received information that Spark was meeting female inmates in the jail and recording having sex acts with them. Though in-person visitations aren't allowed, Spark was given exception as he was a lawyer.

On Nov. 25, 2017, Spark visited a convict named Shauna Boselli who was in prison for child pornography charges. He met Boselli at a porn convention. Spark used his Florida Bar identification, pretending to be Boselli’s attorney, to visit her. Spark told Boselli he was making porn videos of female inmates giving him oral sex. Promising to pay her, Spark said he had done similar videos with another inmate named "Rose."

Boselli told her family members about the proposition, and they informed the law enforcement. Investigators found Spark had made similar visit to on Oct. 12, 2017, to meet another convict, Antoinette Rose Napolitano “under the guise of official attorney business and entered a secure, unmonitored, attorney/client visitation room with the inmate.”

He returned on Dec. 17, 2017, to meet Napolitano. He used his Florida Bar ID and attorney privileges to take her into a secure room. Spark was about to commence the act when law enforcement entered the room and arrested him.

Later investigation proved that Spark had done the same at Hillsborough County’s Falkenburg Road Jail. Search of his electronic devices revealed intimate photos with an inmate in the Falkenburg Jail.

“He really duped the system because he shouldn’t have access to her. He wasn’t her lawyer; he wasn’t representing her. But as an attorney, he’s given the courtesy of going into the jail to meet with clients,” said Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, during the time of Spark's arrest.

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