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“The capture of Michael Pratt is an example of how the FBI will pursue justice beyond U.S. borders — you can run but you can’t hide,” said Special Agent in Charge Stacey Moy of the FBI San Diego Field Office. “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.” Once they were in the room, Garcia ensured they felt they couldn’t leave. 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.

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I’m just happy with watching porn, masturbation, the strip joint and, once in a while, prostitutes or erotic massage parlors. To me, the distress of talking to a woman and asking her out isn’t worth the headache. I’m not a good-looking dude and I cannot say something cool, like other guys; I’m a nerd whose hobby is learning quantum physics. I don’t know how to talk to a woman and keep her attention. I’m also afraid that if a partner enters my life at this point, she could simply imbalance my lifestyle. Added to that were pandemic worries about time spent online, their lack of social lives and what those months cooped up might have done to their development and happiness.

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For the reasons previously stated, and in consideration of the new evidence below, the United States urges the Court to deny the motion. Sometimes responses and replies take time, and we ask you to be courteous and patient to allow the expert to type answers to you and also to others. For years, she hid the truth that she was trafficked. Believing she was protecting her family at her own expense, Jane Doe allowed her family — her parents, siblings, and grandparents — to believe she was a willing participant in the abuse she endured, and that she was a porn performer. The truth, she felt, was too much for them to bear, so she carried it alone. It was during those succeeding hours — from about 9 p.m.

• But soon, Anthony is lost in a reverie about witnessing his father’s death.
• Anthony and Kate are finally making up for all that lost time spent pining when they coulda been boning.
• She graduated from the University of Manchester in 2021 in English Literature.
• Anxiety is about as close as you can get to literally chasing a dragon, since dragons don’t actually exist.

Once the videos were posted online many victims contacted Garcia and his co-conspirators seeking to get their videos taken off the websites. Garcia admitted that he and co-defendant Michael Pratt were the lead recruiters for GDP and GDT. 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. Those who had found close IRL (in real life) friendships were usually older teen, who had navigated the tricky waters of secondary school friendship hierarchies, where your status can be directly connected to “your ability to get girls”. Those low down these hierarchies told me they felt too socially insecure to even call out racist or sexist comments, which they know are wrong.

Prosecutors allege the website’s owners and operators lured unsuspecting young women, and at least one underage girl, with advertisements for clothed modeling gigs. When it was revealed that the job involved filming adult videos, the victims were led to believe the videos they appeared in would be distributed only to private customers living outside of the country, rather than proliferated online, according to the U.S. Pratt is accused of recruiting the victims from throughout the United States and Canada using internet advertisements for clothed modeling jobs. Her rapist, Ruben Andre Garcia, was sentenced in June 2021 to 20 years in prison. His sentencing came several months after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, coercion, and fraud, and admitted to his part in recruiting for and performing in GirlsDoPorn videos.

They don’t call her “the season’s incomparable” for nothing. During his cross-examination, Buchanan rips Evie’s testimony apart, saying that the only difference between the adult films that she made and the boys’ video was that she was paid for the adult films. Evie says that she told the boys no, but Buchanan brings up that she said no in the videos as well and asks her how the jury is supposed to know the difference. After that, Evie is given papers by a lawyer which say that she’s been expelled from Hudson for violating the code of conduct. An 18-year-old girl named Evie Barnes sits on a casting couch for a video. She says that she needs money to pay for her college tuition.

Michael Pratt, the principal owner of the GirlsDoPorn website, is already facing criminal charges for sex trafficking involving adult women. A new indictment, unsealed Thursday, has added child pornography charges. On Tuesday, Pratt pleaded not guilty to charges including sex trafficking, production of child pornography and sex trafficking of a minor. Garcia and other members of the conspiracy took active steps to ensure the victims did not find out that he and the other members of the conspiracy operated GDP and GDT. Garcia knew that most of the young women they were recruiting would have never agreed to appear in a video if they knew that videos of their explicit sexual activity would be posted on the internet and marketed to their friends and family.

“Do any contracts presented to models since the lawsuit was filed in June 2016 reference websites? That’s precisely why GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, videographer Matthew Wolfe, and actor Andre Garcia created a bait-and-switch scheme to get the women to appear in their videos. Ultimately, though, the wild success of those viral GirlsDoPorn Internet videos is what led to the site team’s downfall. The Does were eventually able to find one another—and by doing so, they collectively found the strength to come forth and build a successful legal case against GirlsDoPorn. First, Jane Doe 7 found out the photo shoot was actually a video shoot only when she was picked up at the airport by Matthew Wolfe, a videographer working for the porn website GirlsDoPorn. Criminal charges were filed against Pratt and three others in October.

Jane Doe 7 was far from the only woman duped into filming pornography for the subscription website GirlsDoPorn. Her experience ultimately led to a San Diego Superior Court room where—one by one over the course of several months—22 millennial women answered affirmatively when attorneys for GirlsDoPorn asked them if they had ever viewed porn online. Yet in this fraud trial, these women all claimed they believed the porn videos they shot, which were published among GirlsDoPorn’s library of hundreds of porn flicks viewed collectively over one billion times, would never get posted online.