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Pornhub Lawsuits: 300 Say Site Profited From Trafficking, Abuse
They were promised that the footage would go straight to DVD for wealthy buyers in other countries, in particular Australia and New Zealand, where the defendants come from. «The capture of Michael Pratt is an example of how the FBI will pursue justice beyond U.S. borders — you can run but you can’t hide,» said Special Agent in Charge Stacey Moy of the FBI San Diego Field Office. «Thank you to our determined FBI San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force and to our federal and international partners for their commitment to making sure that Michael Pratt is brought to justice.»
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The group told the models they’d receive $3,000 to $5,000 for a one-day video shoot, court documents show. When the women declined to participate in the shoots because they feared the footage would be uploaded online, the group lied and told them the videos would «only be distributed outside the U.S. on DVD or to supposed private collectors overseas,» the documents said. Some of the victims say they were sexually assaulted and physically prevented by the defendants from leaving the San Diego hotel rooms and short- term rentals where the videos were filmed. The indictment against Pratt and the others was unsealed in 2019 at the same time the defendants were fighting a civil lawsuit filed by 22 women.
GirlsDoPorn ‘actor’ who was in 71 videos, falsely assured victims, pleads guilty
Biological, psychological, and social changes of adolescence and youth period are the determining factors of health or disease in subsequent years of life [1]. Nevertheless, adopting risky behaviors in some adolescents may affect their sexual health [2, 3]. Social sciences scientists have used the term “forced sex” to refer to the interactions in which a person is pressured or forced to commit a sexual act against their will [4].
A short time later, that footage was posted on GirlsDoPorn.com and other popular websites, where many of the women said viewers found and published their full names online, resulting in severe harassment. The website still lingers after all this time, and some of the videos have circulated to other porn sites as well, according to earlier reports. Late last year, a federal judge ruled that the hundreds of women coerced into doing videos on Pratt’s sites had the full rights to their videos, allowing them to seek fines up to $150,000 from those who publish their videos without consent. Pratt is accused of working with four people − Matthew Wolfe, Ruben Garcia, Valorie Moser, and Theodore Gyi − to «recruit young adult women to engage in commercial sex acts by fraud and coercion,» according to court documents. Prosecutors say numerous women were lured by the defendants through the promise of modeling jobs, flown to San Diego, then were threatened with lawsuits and canceled return flights home if they backed out of filming pornographic videos.
- If the women tried to leave, the group would either force the girls to «perform certain sex acts» or threaten them with lawsuits and flight cancelations, the documents continued.
- However, as this lawsuit continued to fall into place within the court system, it became apparent that the labyrinth of production companies and shell corporations established by Michael Pratt had become a minefield for his opponents’ lawyers.
- Nowhere on the contract could the reader find a reference to “girlsdoporn,” “girlsdotoys” or pornography at all.
- But Aylo allegedly ignored those requests, even as the civil proceedings and trial in San Diego Superior Court brought to light the fraud and deception involved in making the videos, according to the complaint.
- Further, he ordered the defendants to take down the women’s sex videos and take steps to get them off other porn sites they don’t control but allowed to post clips, ads or entire films.
The ruling is part of a restitution order against one of the leaders, performer Ruben Andre Garcia, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this year after pleading guilty to sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. Michael James Pratt, identified by law enforcement as “the ringleader,” remains at large, but his trial is set to begin in June 2022. Over 20 victims of Pratt and his crew already won the$12.75 million civil lawsuit against the site. Women cited in the court documents said they were forced to sign contracts that did not give the full scope of what the site intended to do with the videos.
- But she’s hopeful their work and the work that prevention education leaders in the sex trafficking awareness community are doing will make some kind of difference.
- Meanwhile, the men still face federal charges of sex trafficking and producing child porn.
- Michael James Pratt disappeared in the summer of 2019, just before he was indicted on federal conspiracy and sex trafficking charges stemming from what prosecutors said was a decade-long scheme to con hundreds of teens and young women into appearing in adult videos for the website he owned.
- It means we are now aware that things aren’t always as they seem when it comes to online pornography.
- Advertising, product placement, and influencer marketing can be an important piece of teens and young adults purchasing choices.
Others detailed how they had lost jobs, been evicted, and were estranged from friends and family. That suit caught the attention of prosecutors when it went to trial in 2019, touching off the criminal investigation. Those who spoke at Garcia’s sentencing told harrowing stories of assault, coercion and brutality during the hours-long shoots, when many wept, bled, vomited, cried out in pain or begged for the filming to stop — scenes that were carefully edited from the final video. Many said they were pressured into performing sex acts they’d previously refused to do.
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Before joining the U-T, she worked as a reporter for the Whittier Daily News, The Vista Press and The San Diego Daily Transcript. She has won news writing awards from the San Diego Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists. The women were videotaped reading the agreement over distribution rights, but their lawyer said some of them were drunk at the time and didn’t understand what they were reading. “The money’s one thing but these guys have ruined [the plaintiffs’] lives and we have to clean this up as much as possible,” Ed Chapin, attorney for the women, said after the judge’s decision was issued. All of Pratt’s co-defendants have either accepted plea deals or been found guilty for their involvement in GirlsDoPorn, court records show. Another woman said an anonymous person sent a video she appeared in to her grandmother.
She said as scary as that sounds, one of the other dangers threatening girls who end up there is something very common. “As a reminder, GirlsDoPorn’s owners/ employees are currently ensnared in a human trafficking case in the Southern District of CA. Owner Michael Pratt remains a fugitive, with the FBI offering a $50,000 reward for a tip leading to his arrest,” Bianca Bruno, reporter at @CourthouseNews, added. Green also wrote that the FBI believes Pratt could be hiding with the aid of people across the world potentially with the promise of gifts or money. Their challenge to Texas’s age-verification law is set to be heard by the US Supreme Court during its fall term. Pornhub’s lawyers have sued the attorneys general in these states, challenging the constitutionality of their user age-verification laws.
Porn actor and producer Ruben Andre Garcia was previously sentenced to 20 years in prison, and two others have pleaded guilty and await sentencing next year. According to the lawsuit, just before the trial started, the women offered to settle with Domi Publications for $749 each — or one dollar less than the statutory minimum penalty for one of the claims they were pursuing. The charges against Pratt’s co-defendants in the initial indictment have all ended in guilty pleas. Michael Pratt, who allegedly manipulated hundreds of young women into making sex tapes and then lied about not distributing them, was included on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list this year. Ultimately, though, the wild success of those viral GirlsDoPorn Internet videos is what led to the site team’s downfall. The Does were eventually able to find one another—and by doing so, they collectively found the strength to come forth and build a successful legal case against GirlsDoPorn.
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