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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. In 2019, a Maryland appellate court found 6-1 that child pornography laws apply when a teen is both the subject and sender of sexually explicit media. Under the ruling, where the judicial panel encouraged lawmakers to change the law, the appellate court upheld a lower court’s decision where a 16-year-old girl was convicted as her own pornographer.

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Garcia and the California-based website’s co-owner, Matthew Isaac Wolfe, were both detained and hit with sex trafficking charges. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to “conspiracy and sex trafficking” charges. In late July, one of Pratt’s coconspirators, 40-year-old Matthew Isaac Wolfe, pleaded guilty to committing sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. Jane Doe, one of the dozens of women trapped in a sex trafficking operation that lasted more than a decade, is speaking out about the dark chapter that radically changed the trajectory of her life. At just 22 years old, she was lured into traveling to California for what she thought was an above-board modeling job. 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.

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The defendants and “fans” of GirlsDoPorn also sent the videos to victims’ friends, family, classmates, and colleagues, and posted the victims’ names and contact information with the videos. As a result of this wide exposure, the victims were harassed and shamed, forced to leave jobs or school, and ostracized or even disowned by family and friends. The victims suffered immense emotional distress and economic harm, and their lives were derailed for years. Sixty-two additional women are suing Pornhub’s parent company, claiming that the company failed to take down videos of their abuse as part of the sex trafficking operation Girls Do Porn. They’re suing the company and its sites for sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and human trafficking. 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.

Eventually, she found one, which provided solid pay for just a few hours’ work. For a girl that didn’t have many resources to rely on, it seemed like a dream-come-true. But like most things in the world, the reality was more disappointing than the glossy images presented online. The 22 plaintiffs sought compensatory and punitive damages, alleged intentional misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, misappropriation of name and likeness, and deceptive business practices, among other civil grounds. Six of the women whose videos were posted online spoke at Gyi’s sentencing, and each said Gyi assured them their videos would not be seen on the internet, but soon discovered they had been lied to. The website and its operators were also sued by 22 women featured in its videos, and a San Diego judge awarded the women nearly $13 million at the end of a civil trial.

• Over time, it just became a regular part of their casting and filming process.
• Over the past year, the GirlsDoPorn website – as well as its affiliates, MomPov and GirlsDoToys – have been permanently shuttered.
• The website’s co-owner, Matthew Isaac Wolfe, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion in July.
• Pratt, who spent years on the lam after being charged in October 2019 and fleeing the U.S., according to prosecutors, was eventually placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list.

Now with two children, she said she worries what she will tell them if the video ever surfaces again. Those who tried to back out once it was clear what was involved were threatened, plied with alcohol and told they would have to pay for their own way home from San Diego. After applying for the modelling work, they received phone calls from other women who have been described as a key part of the business – “reference women” who pitched the idea of making porn and assured them that it would never go online. In October, 50 victims of Girls Do Porn won a settlement with Pornhub for the website’s role in spreading these videos. Another one of the Jane Doe plaintiffs in January 2016 “submitted a content removal request to MindGeek, begging to have her video removed because of the lack of consent and harassment she was under,” the complaint said.

According to dozens of women who appeared in Girls Do Porn videos, Garcia pressured them into sex acts that weren’t agreed upon beforehand and lied about the true nature of the shoot. Most were lured to hotel rooms in San Diego through modeling shoot ads posted by Girls Do Porn, and were pressured into having sex when they arrived. Garcia and his co-conspirator told the women that the videos wouldn’t be disseminated online, and would only be sold in private collectors’ stores in other countries. 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.

But the clips would always direct viewers to his website, GirlsDoPorn.com, where they could unlock the full video for a monthly subscription. Because of this forced resignation, Megan lost access to whatever benefits she might have obtained through the pageants… While the traffic to the amateur porn site increased tenfold, with its owners bragging about needing to increase their server size in social media posts. Megan was a young woman from the American northeast, who would become a foster child at the age of 12. She would spend the next handful of years in the foster system, at times struggling with anxiety and depression. 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.