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(46) Beville told GayVN in an e-mail that “four titles…appear to have been produced before (Lockhart) turned eighteen. There may be other titles he appeared in after he turned eighteen…Anything made before (October 31, 2004) would be, by definition, child pornography.” (47) Lockhart’s goal, Beville said, was to get the illegal videos off the market. The four videos in question were listed as Bareboned Twinks, Casting Couch IV, Every Poolboy’s Dream, and Schoolboy Crush.
    If Kocis was prepared for the allegation, it didn’t appear so in his response. He told GayVN that “these are just allegations” and referred any further questions to the Pennsylvania attorney who had defended him in his earlier criminal trial, Al Flora, Jr. (48)
    The scandal-sensitive porn industry wasn’t waiting to see if Lockhart’s claim held any validity. The Free Speech Coalition (a trade association for the adult entertainment industry) issued its own statement saying that it recommended “until the facts in this case are clarified, all (affected titles) and promotional materials should be immediately removed from circulation and distribution, and all content, online and offline, that contains the performer named Brent Corrigan should be removed and sealed for attorney review and consultation.” (49)
    Kocis needed to act quickly to control the damage, including potential damage to a valuable distribution arrangement he had in place with Pacific Sun Entertainment, a giant, industry-leading wholesale adult video distributor based in North Hills, California. Kocis assured everyone that Cobra Video has “color copies of the three state-issued forms of identification that Mr. Lockhart presented, including a birth certificate, all indicating a birth year of 1985.” Cobra also apologized to all retailers and customers “for the inexcusable hardship and disruption in business that (Lockhart) has caused.” Kocis singled out his undoubtedly nervous distributor, Pacific Sun Entertainment, noting they had handled “a difficult situation in a very prompt and effective manner.” (50)
    Cobra Video’s news release said that all of its requests for an original copy of Lockhart’s birth certificate had been rejected. Cobra’s statement said the issue was further complicated by the fact that the state Lockhart was born in Idaho, a state that did not make birth certificates available under public records law, and could only be requested by the individual or an immediate family member. (51)
    At the same time, Lockhart’s attorney complained that Kocis continued to “harass Sean with e-mails and phone calls” and that Lockhart would not cooperate with producing an original copy of his birth certificate until Kocis ceased his contact. (52) Beville would later confirm to a reporter that Lockhart had presented Kocis a forged ID before performing in the adult videos produced for Cobra. If Lockhart’s claims and statements to the FBI about his underage status were having an effect, Kocis wasn’t letting on. He claimed that he had not been contacted by federal authorities about any alleged violations of the 2257 codes and said that he planned to release additional scenes Lockhart filmed for Cobra after December 2004 and that those would be distributed in later videos (later pasted into the Brent Corrigan’s Fuck Me Raw and Take It Like A Bad Boy DVDs). (53)
    The strict federal law known as the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988, most normally referred to as the “2257 law,” typically resulted in a disclaimer posted on all adult content by producers that:

This video contains explicit sexual  material which may be offensive to some viewers. You must be eighteen years or older to enter this content. All models, actors, actresses and other persons that appear in any visual depiction of actual sexual conduct appearing or otherwise contained in this adult content were at least eighteen years of age at the time of the creation