“This defendant lured one victim after another with fake modeling ads, false promises and deceptive front companies, ultimately devolving to threats to coerce these women into making sex videos,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman. “Even when victims told Garcia how the scheme had devastated their lives, he showed no regard for their well-being. The crime was utterly callous in nature and there is no excuse or justification for his conduct, which was driven purely by greed. Hopefully today’s sentence will offer them a sense of justice.” Grossman praised prosecutors Joseph Green, Alexandra Foster and Sabrina Feve; FBI Special Agents; and the U.S. Pratt is charged with multiple counts of conspiracy and sex trafficking, as well as one count of producing child pornography in connection with the scheme, from which he and his team made millions, court records show. The website’s activities also spurred dual lawsuits from more than 100 women against the parent company for porn-streaming site PornHub for allegedly profiting off of GirlsDoPorn’s trafficking by hosting its videos.
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This individual had been “attempting to groom minors for sex trafficking,” which fit in with the DOJ’s filing. Garcia had reportedly been recruiting women for filming purposes up until his arrest in October of 2019. It was reported then that the contracts that he had been working with still had no mention of GirlsDoPorn or the videos ever being uploaded online. The trial lasted over three months, beginning in August of 2019 and finally wrapping up that November. There was no jury, with the case being heard and decided by Judge Kevin A. Enright himself, who ruled overwhelmingly in the plaintiffs’ favor. Not only would the operators of GirlsDoPorn have to pay the women $12.7 million in damages ($3.3 million in punitive damages, and $9.45 in compensatory damages), but Judge Enright declared that the women would reclaim ownership over whatever footage had been made of them.
- This would not only help remedy the pain the women had been through but would make it possible for them to file copyright strikes against websites like PornHub – who, because of copyright law, were limited in what they could do for sexual content created by a third party.
- MindGeek continued its partnership with GirlsDoPorn until October 2019 when the Department of Justice shut down GirlsDoPorn by arresting and indicting its principals.
- 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 plaintiff-victims, some of whom were paying their way through college or needed money for rent, were lured into the defendants’ pornography scheme through phony ads on Craigslist.com for clothed modeling gigs.
- On October 19, 2021, Pornhub’s parent company MindGeek settled a lawsuit brought forth by over 50 women who sued Pornhub claiming they were victims of a sex-trafficking operation.
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The companies deny knowingly profiting from illegal and abusive content and insist that reforms now keep such content off the site. 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. A 2022 lawsuit says Pornhub profited from the videos of the 12-year-old Alabama boy who was drugged and repeatedly raped — and for five months ignored demands by police that the videos be taken down. In a nod to the scope of this litigation tsunami, a federal judge in California used the phrase “tens of thousands of children” in a November order granting class certification to one of at least two class-action trafficking suits against Pornhub and MindGeek, which rebranded last year as Aylo. “We have taken unprecedented steps to mitigate the ability of bad actors to upload illegal material on our platforms,” including using AI technologies and human monitoring to police content, she said.
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- 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.
- The references were paid a fee for each victim they attempted to recruit, with additional compensation for victims who agreed to film a video.
- As a part of the conspiracy, Garcia and others would at times coerce victims into completing the videos once they were underway.
- But now, nearly a year after recording the video, the footage had been uploaded to a subscription-based amateur porn site, which billed itself as the go-to spot on the internet to find attractive, impressionable, barely-legal models.
- He also admitted to continuing to upload scenes to the website using the same business practices that had resulted in this lawsuit, admitting on the stand that these women were not being told that the videos were ever going to be uploaded to GirlsDoPorn…
- While she would originally attempt to deny any relation to the video, a subsequent video was obtained by sites like Brobible, which showed her in the same hotel room as the adult film – this time, however, just reading off a prepared statement giving her consent to appear in the flick.
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.
