Cameraman Sentenced for Creating Retaliation Video Targeting GirlsDoPorn Victims

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However, the operators of Girls Do Porn posted them for free on websites including Pornhub, causing extreme trauma to the victims. In some cases, these girls were forced to change their communities or even change their names after their families came to know about it. 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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“I can remember being so worried to tell him that I was just 17,” a woman identified as “Victim K” told the court during a hearing for the ring’s main performer, Ruben Andre Garcia, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking in 2020 and was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2021. SAN DIEGO – Adult film performer and producer Ruben Andre Garcia was sentenced in federal court today to 20 years in prison for conspiring with the owners of the adult websites GirlsDoPorn (GDP) and GirlsDoToys (GDT) to recruit young women to appear in sex videos for adult websites using force, fraud, and coercion. Sexting behaviors by adolescents and young adults are correlated with riskier sexual behaviors. The transmission (including the receipt) of sexually explicit texts may be illegal for children under the age of 18 in many states and the sending of sexually explicit photos of minors may be considered sexual exploitation or child pornography under the law. While your teen may trust the person on the other end of the conversation, it’s important that they understand the risks of sexting. According to current DSM-5, dependence on online pornography does not represent a separate syndrome, but as some researchers and clinicians suggest, it can be included as a part of a hypersexual disorder (Kafka, 2010).

• Throughout the alleged conspiracy, Pratt and the co-defendants recruited hundreds of young women from around the U.S. and Canada who were aspiring models, court records show.
• Later that night when Evie arrives to the party, she is lured into the bathroom by Matt and Daniel where they begin to sexually assault her.
• He and his partners used threats of lawsuits, canceled flights home and, in some cases, physically blocked the door so the young women could not escape.
• But Porn has the quality of a good novel, in that while reading it you often notice small details or perspectives which make you think about the world, or your own life, differently, without having a lesson overtly spelled out to you.

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Though the indictment offers few details about his alleged conduct, related civil cases have revealed that Wiederhold created a GirlsDoPorn-style “mom” porn site for women over 30 years old. 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. “These creators of sexually explicit deepfakes have no regard whatsoever for the women and girls who are victims of sex trafficking and now being further abused through this deepfake sexual abuse,” says Clare McGlynn, a professor of law at Durham University, who works to counter image-based abuse.

District Judge Janis Sammartino told Wolfe, “You played an essential role in a sex trafficking conspiracy” and noted his knowledge that false representations were being made to the women. Another woman said, “The fear of being recognized in public never goes away,” while another said the continuous messages and threats she receives from anonymous people online are “constant reminders of the worst time in my life.” After some of those women and their lawyers told Motherboard specifically how over 100 women had allegedly been lied to and bullied by Girls Do Porn, it was only enough for Pornhub to remove videos from the specific women who’d sued Girls Do Porn, and only from Pornhub’s official Girls Do Porn channel, not the rest of its site. When 22 women sued independent label Girls Do Porn in June for allegedly manipulating them into performing sex acts for a global audience, it wasn’t enough for giant adult video site Pornhub to stop promoting Girls Do Porn as an official “Content Partner” and profiting from the arrangement. Since 2016, Charles DeBarber, director of operations at technology firm Phoenix AI, has been undertaking the arduous task of discovering and trying to remove content from GirlsDoPorn that has been posted online.

• “Copyright is one of the few laws we’ve had during the first generation of the commercial internet where platforms had a business incentive to take down content and build out automated portals for making this a streamlined process,” Johnstone said.
• At the end of 2023, Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo Holdings, agreed to pay damages to women impacted by the sharing of the GirlsDoPorn videos.
• In fact, the disparateness of our perspectives on and experiences of sex and porn, alongside the fact we mostly assume ourselves to be the norm, is something I was routinely reminded of while reading Porn.
• The woman said she’s about to graduate from college, but said that though “I’m proud to be the first in my family to go to college, when I graduate, it’s not going to be my name that’s called.”

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 months-long civil trial. Once the women discovered their videos were posted online, the website owners ignored requests to take the videos down and cut contact with the women altogether. Many of the women testified that Garcia sexually assaulted them, and spoke of how the videos’ existence continues to plague them years after the fact, destroying familial relationships and employment prospects. Some of the women said they attempted suicide after the videos were released and continue to seek therapy to this day. In November, Pratt and Girls Do Porn producer Kevin Gibson allegedly harassed Holm by photoshopping his face into porn to make it look like he was posing with two male porn actors.

In addition to the findings from the search, the government outlined more evidence to support its recommendation that Wolfe remain in detention, including that his fiancé’s family is “sufficiently wealthy to set up trust funds for his children” and that $250,000 was deposited into one of the children’s accounts a week after he was detained. Holm confirmed to Motherboard that several of his clients said they had been contacted by someone claiming to be a reporter from either the Los Angeles Times or the New York Times. “It was the same phone number calling them claiming to be from multiple different media outlets,” he said. He is a citizen of New Zealand with no right to live or work in the United States. For the reasons previously stated, and in consideration of the new evidence below, the United States urges the Court to deny the motion. Their challenge to Texas’s age-verification law is set to be heard by the US Supreme Court during its fall term.

Garcia and Pratt created Craigslist advertisements, along with fake websites and email addresses consistent with the websites to cause their victims to believe that they were applying to work asclothed models. Only after the victims responded to the advertisements would Garcia and Pratt disclose that they were actually seeking women for pornographic video shoots. Hundreds of victims of GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToy, sex-trafficking rings, have now been given the rights to the videos and millions of dollars in damages.

According to Wolfe, Pratt paid for his flight, gave him an apartment and paid him $500 a week. Initially Wolfe worked in the office maintaining the computer servers, handling payroll and taking care of other routine office tasks, but he eventually began filming videos and taking a more hands-on role within the company. In February 2011, an earthquake struck New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing widespread damage. Wolfe’s attorney, Jeremy Warren, wrote that the country’s economy ground to a halt, leaving young people like Wolfe with few job prospects. That’s when childhood schoolmate Pratt offered Wolfe a job in San Diego, telling him that he needed technical help to run his business. MindGeek’s defense against the lawsuit could cite Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives legal immunity to online platforms that host user-submitted content.

“I ended up trying to kill myself many times. I ended up in mental hospitals,” Serena Fleites, the lead plaintiff in Bowe’s 34-plaintiff trafficking suit, said 2021, while testifying at a hearing before the Canadian Parliament, according to Mickelwait’s book. The mother of two began her fight against the online porn empire in early 2020, as horror stories began to mount. But as detailed in her new book — to be released by Random House on Tuesday and written like a detective thriller — Mickelwait has landed some round-house punches. “He used deceit and lies and vindictiveness to torture the young women he caught in his snare,” FBI Supervisory Special Agent Renee Green said in a September news release announcing Pratt’s inclusion on the list and the $100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. Pratt was arrested in Spain last year after spending years on the run from law enforcement. “Plaintiff fears for her life and safety, as well as the lives and safety of people close to her,” the complaint continues.