Disquisting whores: Document reveals GirlsDoPorn plans to harass victims

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While she struggled with these emotional issues at an earlier age than most – which she described as common symptoms of children in foster care – she attempted to create a normal life for herself. A San Diego judge has handed a sweeping victory to the 22 women who accused operators of the GirlsDoPorn.com website of duping them into appearing in widely distributed pornography. 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. U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino, who is expected to sentence Wolfe later this year, ruled in December that the rights to videos and images produced in the case should be awarded to the victims. 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. There is little or no thought of how a young woman feels in that situation—and worse, to consumers, it is more exciting because of how tricked, betrayed, and violated she feels afterward.

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• “We were all in the U.S. attorney’s office,” said Brian Holm, longtime civil attorney for the victims.
• She told me she’d had four miscarriages, and while she and her husband wanted to have more children, she felt overwhelmed by the prospect of trying again.
• Business Insider has found lawsuits on behalf of nearly 300 plaintiffs who allege that back before the 2020 purge, videos of their abuse were uploaded to Pornhub without their consent and remained on the site for weeks or months after they were flagged.
• In August 2023, as part of the Pornhub network, Aylo launched UViU, a platform for creators to sell content directly to fans.[91] Designed with creator input, UViU helps diversify income and increase earnings.
• 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.

Wiederhold founded MomPOV.com with Pratt in 2010, and acted as the male performer in MomPOV videos. Pratt fled the US in 2019 as a civil lawsuit against him and his business partners was underway in San Diego. Twenty-two women accused him and his co-conspirators of coercing them into making porn videos and then lying about their distribution, leading to severe harassment and psychological pain. Of course, not every porn company tricks, forces, or coerces performers to have sex on camera.

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Wolfe eventually handed off camera duties to other individuals a few years later, and it seems like he, Pratt, and Garcia were all working on recruitment over an extended period of time… Months, maybe even years, during which time, the jobs of each began to blur. However, the lawsuit would begin to pick up momentum over the next year or two, with eighteen additional women coming forward to join the suit, adding on their own claims of fraud and mistreatment at the hands of the men running this scheme. In at least one case, the young woman had only been seventeen years old at the time she began corresponding with Pratt, Wolfe, and Garcia, who then began making plans to fly her across state lines after her eighteen birthday… In several cases, the women filmed for GirlsDoPorn would be propositioned outside of the video shoot. Andre Garcia, who reportedly sexually assaulted several women before, during, or after the film shoot, would often text them and ask to have sex outside of the shoot.

Today these young girls are free and have been restored to their families. Also in October 2015, Jane Doe 17 said she was tagged in an Instagram post advertising the pornographic video she had filmed after responding to a Craigslist ad, which she thought no one would ever see. The post on the Girls Do Porn account included a photo of her on a hotel bed captioned “Coming soon.” The next day, she filed a report at the San Diego Police Department.

The FBI San Diego Field Office announced Wednesday that Michael James Pratt, 39, had been added to the notorious most wanted list for his alleged involvement in sex trafficking and production of child pornography nearly three years after a federal warrant was issued for his arrest. Buzzfeed News reports that the men still face federal charges of sex trafficking and producing child porn, since some of the exploited individuals were 17 at the time of filming. Pratt fled the US and is now a fugitive, likely in his home country of New Zealand. Most of the video shoots took place in San Diego – at local hotels and short-term rental units. Although the women were promised that the video shoots would be brief, they often took hours. Once home, unbeknownst to the women, Pratt and his co-defendants would post clips of the adult videos on other pornographic sites like Pornhub to lure users to GirlsDoPorn for full-length versions of the films, court records show.

District Court in San Diego alleges sex trafficking, human trafficking, racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering. It names as defendants Aylo Media S.A.R.L., a Luxembourg-incorporated company that owns PornHub and other popular free porn video sites, and several related companies. The owners and operators of GirlsDoPorn knew the type of women they wanted to appear in their amateur porn videos—college-age millennials—would not agree to casually participate in the porn industry.

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. As survivors and data show, some people have been forced, tricked, or coerced into entering the industry in the first place, unable to leave once they’ve started. Not only that, but performers who are already in the industry can be forced, tricked, or coerced into performing sex acts they’re uncomfortable with, or performing with other performers on their “no” list.

• A short time later, that footage was posted on Girls Do Porn’s website and uploaded to other popular free porn tube sites, including Pornhub, despite the promise that the footage would only be distributed via DVDs on the other side of the world.
• “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.”
• After pleading guilty to sex crime charges in 2021, they’re expected to be sentenced in early October.
• Not only that, but performers who are already in the industry can be forced, tricked, or coerced into performing sex acts they’re uncomfortable with, or performing with other performers on their “no” list.
• A federal grand jury indicted the key participants of the porn empire in 2019.
• “We have no indication she even knows this is being filmed,” Mickelwait said of this video, which has been on the site for two years.

She told police that after filming concluded on a subsequent photo and video shoot, Garcia pestered her with invasive questions. She said Garcia asked her to be his girlfriend, then eventually became irate and forcibly pushed her down onto a bed and sexually assaulted her. Days later, Garcia showed up at her boyfriend’s house and refused to leave until she threatened to call the police. The woman told her parents and her sister that she had been raped, and her parents encouraged her to tell the police. In November 2015, an anonymous woman filed a police report in Newport Beach, California, after her video was posted on Girls Do Porn. A copy of the report obtained by The Appeal shows that she told police that she was raped by Garcia after filming her video.