Pornhub removes Girls Do Porn, drawing the line at sex trafficking charges

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Some illuminating information would come from the testimony of two people employed by GirlsDoPorn but were not involved in the running of the company itself. In fact, almost everyone involved with the production of the video seemed to have ghosted her – dropping her like a bad habit the moment she stopped being profitable for them. « Photos is one thing, in person is another. You were paid very well. $3,000 is about 4x more than the regular pay girls get… » A popular subreddit had already begun to pop up on Reddit, and the site would officially launch its own forum in 2014. On both, commenters began to question how the operators of GirlsDoPorn were able to find such attractive young women to appear in their videos with regularity, uploading at least one new video every single week.

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• Althaus has been unable to maintain a job or healthy relationships and “has been repeatedly followed and harassed,” according to the lawsuit.
• Women reported being sexually assaulted and not being allowed to leave during filming, which occurred mostly at hotels and rentals in the San Diego area.
• In November 2015, an anonymous woman filed a police report in Newport Beach, California, after her video was posted on Girls Do Porn.
• But the clips would always direct viewers to his website, GirlsDoPorn.com, where they could unlock the full video for a monthly subscription.
• The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California recognizes the outstanding efforts of the FBI in San Diego; the FBI Legal Attaché in Spain; the U.S.

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« But he was not mad or concerned. Instead he was excited and was eager to start. » « Laila is a one-woman wrecking crew, with two babies in her arms and a keyboard, » said Mike Bowe, a Manhattan-based attorney who represents 34 women accusing Pornhub of sex trafficking and child pornography in an ongoing federal racketeering lawsuit out of California filed in 2021. One of Pratt’s suspected collaborators, Ruben Garcia, an adult performer, and producer, had previously been detained. After entering a guilty plea to the counts of sex trafficking and conspiracy, he was given a 20-year term in June 2021. For his part in the GirlsDoPorn plot, Matthew Isaac Wolfe entered a guilty plea to a single count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking in July of this year. A San Diego judge awarded $22.775 million in compensatory and punitive damages to 22 unidentified victims in a civil complaint against the company in January 2019.

• So far, multiple Girls Do Porn conspirators and people connected to the crime ring have pled guilty to federal charges.
• SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The founder of San Diego-based GirlsDoPorn website who had been on the lam for the past three years while facing federal sex trafficking charges, was arrested this week in Spain, the FBI announced Friday.
• If no one participated—neither chatted nor gave any tips—the cam site wouldn’t exist.
• The judge in that case found in favor of the women and handed down a $12.7 million judgment against Pratt, Wolfe, adult performer Ruben Andre Garcia and various business interests connected to Pratt.
• Because this expansive criminal case has not yet been settled, I’m sure that part of the story will be continued in a future episode.

“It is our hope that this resolution, which includes certain agreed payments to the women whose images were posted on the company’s platforms and an independent monitorship brings some measure of closure to those negatively affected,” Peace said in the statement. In September of 2020, the FBI would announce a $10,000 reward for any information that led to the arrest of Michael James Pratt, who stands about six feet tall, weighs upwards of 200 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes, and may have a tattoo on his left arm. He is known to be a private and paranoid person who is prone to emotional outbursts that may turn violent, so please use caution. Very few photos of him exist on the internet, but the ones that do will be posted on the podcast website as well as our social media accounts. It’s unknown when, exactly, Pratt fled the country, but lawyers for the numerous Jane Does allege that during the civil trial last year (2019), Pratt visited South America before he was scheduled to provide testimony.

Pornhub’s lawyers have sued the attorneys general in these states, challenging the constitutionality of their user age-verification laws. Fleites was a 14-year-old 8th grader in Bakersfield, California when a boy a year older than her, who she had a crush on, asked her to film naked videos of herself. The boy shared the videos with friends, and someone uploaded them to Pornhub. A 15-year-old Florida girl who went missing for a year was found when a Pornhub user reached out to the girl’s mother. « The mother found fifty-eight videos of her child being raped on Pornhub, » Mickelwait writes.

The conspiracy count to which Wolfe pleaded guilty pertains to 15 victims, all adults. Pratt’s appearance came as a welcome surprise to several women who had come to the courthouse earlier in the day for a different reason — to deliver victim impact statements against Pratt’s business partner, who was sentenced Tuesday morning in the case. WIRED is not naming the deepfake abuse website due to its role in spreading abusive content or the celebrities featured in the videos. The website is the largest website of its kind—hosting tens of thousands of videos and receiving millions of visitors. In April, the website blocked visitors from the UK after lawmakers in the country announced plans to make it a criminal offense to create nonconsensual explicit deepfakes.

As if to add insult to injury, this video was released alongside a couple of snide comments from the owners of the site of the original adult film. The producers claim that Megan had only been paid $1,500 for her original appearance, and had asked to come back for a second, but had been rejected by the producers, who critiqued her performance as « frigid at best. » Despite providing contestants with a decent networking platform – and resources to stay in shape while earning relatively useless trinkets – the pageants that Megan participated in didn’t provide anything in the form of payment. Hence, her – being a young woman with little in the way of a support structure – taking part in an adult video to support herself through college. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM’s legal news publications.

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