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GirlsDoPorn continued to show total indifference throughout the trial, even uploading a new video involving one Jane Doe who claimed that she was not made aware of the lawsuit when she shot the video in August. “The defendant lied and tricked these women, made millions along the way, and left his co-conspirators to face justice while he fled,” said Special Agent in Charge Suzanne Turner. “Michael James Pratt is a danger to society, regardless of where he is, and is likely still victimizing people while on the run with his continued lies and false promises.”

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Althaus reportedly lost her Miss Teen Colorado runner-up crown after the video surfaced. Wolfe admitted to posting those videos on the U.S. website GirlsDoPorn for public viewing. The FBI is advising anyone who was a victim of Girls Do Porn or Girls Do Toys and wants to enforce these rights to call CALL-FBI or visit the bureau’s tip website. Authorities still haven’t located Pratt, the ringleader of the group, who they suspect fled the country during the civil case against Girls Do Porn and was added to the Most Wanted list in September 2020.

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Pratt has fled the country and has been charged with additional counts of producing child pornography and child sex trafficking for coercing a 16-year-old into producing a video despite full knowledge of her age. Michael James Pratt, who fled the United States during a San Diego civil trial and was subsequently charged criminally, made his initial appearance in a San Diego federal courtroom Tuesday afternoon. A not guilty plea was entered on Pratt’s behalf to a 19-count indictment that includes charges of sex trafficking, production of child pornography, sex trafficking of a minor, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.

Last year, Garcia pled guilty to federal counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, as part of the federal case against himself and his co-conspirators Matthew Wolfe and Michael Pratt. In January, a California judge ordered GirlsDoPorn’s operators to pay nearly $13 million to 22 women who were tricked and coerced into shooting pornographic videos. It was in June 2020 when Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he plead guilty to federal counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. According to the U.S. attorney’s office, the videos were posted on sites like PornHub and GirlsDoPorn, netting Pratt and co-conspirator Michael Wolfe, who was sentenced Tuesday for his role, as much as $17 million.

• Garcia’s victims were coerced, defrauded and forced to participate in recorded sex acts, some of which were violent to the point of drawing blood.
• When she flew to San Diego in October 2013 with her friend who found a modeling ad on Craigslist, Jane Doe 7 believed she’d be paid $2,000 to do a nude photo shoot.
• But like most things in the world, the reality was more disappointing than the glossy images presented online.
• A hearing has been set for Thursday to discuss whether the 41-year-old should be released on bail.
• In response, Garcia and others told the victims that they had to continue and finish the videos.
• One woman stood before Garcia with sutures on her wrist from a recent attempt to end her life, flashing it to the judge as she spoke.

But legal repercussions from those pre-purge days — including federal monitoring and an ever-growing number of lawsuits — are still rippling through Pornhub and its network of user-generated porn sites. It’s been four years since a wave of news accounts revealed that the site was infested with non-consensual videos of rape, sexual assault, child porn, and footage from hidden cameras. These women were recruited via Craigslist modeling ads and then directed to fill out contact forms on benign-sounding websites like BeginModeling.com and CaliforniaModeling.com. They were then contacted by Garcia, who revealed applicants were actually being recruited to film a 30-minute porn video that they would be paid several thousand dollars to film. But after the women were flown to San Diego from their various home states to make the videos in hotels, the defendants allegedly lied, saying the films would be distributed on DVDs and only to private clients overseas, not on the internet. Nored is accused in the criminal case of acting as a “reference woman” who would lie to the victims by saying she had performed in similar videos that were never posted online.

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. 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. The company reached settlements with the women in both lawsuits and also agreed to pay over $1.8 million to resolve a probe by federal prosecutors who alleged the company knew or should have known it was accepting money that originated from sex-trafficking operations. Douglas Wiederhold is the latest defendant to plead guilty in the criminal cases against the website’s owners and operators, whom prosecutors say engaged in a years-long sex trafficking conspiracy in which women were coerced and tricked into appearing in pornographic videos under false pretenses.

He remains at large and was recently placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. A federal judge has ordered that all victims of the GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys—sex-trafficking rings that coerced potentially hundreds of women into having sex on camera—have the rights to the videos and images they appeared in with those companies. To dispel doubts, Pratt paid other young women, including Moser, to “act as references or provide false assurances to the women that, if they filed a video, the video would not be posted online,” court records show.