GirlsDoPorn videographer sentenced to 4 years in prison for sex trafficking

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In some cases, they may even spend money they don’t have or money that was supposed to go toward paying bills, leading to financial problems. Barton emailed a number of her contacts to see who might be willing to take part, and the resulting book consists of the transcripts of 19 conversations, which feel frank, refreshing, and often surprising. Each of Barton’s subjects is anonymous, which I believe is essential for the conversations to be basically honest. They are described only by skeleton information about their race, age, sexual orientation, and relationship status. (Although their life experience and the kind of work they do comes up in the conversations.) There are nine men (including one transgender man), nine women, and one nonbinary person. Some interviews are quite similar in their scope and perspective, and the type of person interviewed is reflective of Barton’s milieu (academics and people who have lived in Japan and work in teaching or translation are very well represented).

• “Garcia and Pratt bought me a birthday cake to include in the filming process so he could let everyone know that I had just turned 18,” she said.
• He and his co-conspirators are accused of posting internet ads about modeling jobs to lure young women before pressuring and manipulating them into shooting sex tapes.
• That suit caught the attention of prosecutors when it went to trial in 2019, touching off the criminal investigation.
• Tech companies and porn companies don’t allow illegal content on their platforms, although they remove it with different levels of effectiveness.
• In October, prosecutors indicted former GirlsDoPorn employee Douglas “James” Wiederhold on five counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and one count of conspiracy to commit the same alleged crime.

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Reading Porn is a reminder that, in the internet age, we are living through a major societal change too. “Ultimately, each plaintiffs’ case is about regret in agreeing to film pornography videos for money and the clear and foreseeable consequences that followed,” the brief states. According to court documents, the women typically answered ads for a purported modeling agency, then were flown by the defendants to San Diego. The women — identified in court documents as Jane Does 1 through are seeking more than $22 million in damages from the defendants, which include GirlsDoPorn CEO Michael J. Pratt, actor Andre Garcia, and videographer Matthew Wolfe. Details of that monitoring — part of a deferred prosecution agreement from the Pornhub network’s years of hosting hundreds of videos from the GirlsDoPorn sex-trafficking ring — have not been made public. A law enforcement source told BI last week that an announcement will be made soon.

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Authorities said the pornography depicted girls and boys who appeared to be as young as 2 years old. Porn is full of moments and observations like these, which spark trains of thought that can hurtle off to various locations. It is a tricky book to write about because of this generative quality, and because the sentiments that strike me as particularly consequential maybe appear banal to a different reader. 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.

Val Moser, the website’s office manager and chauffeur who drove the women to and from the airport, corroborated the issue of pay. She said half of all the women she spoke to complained to her about getting paid less than they were promised. Courthouse News reports that the new indictment was unsealed at “a hearing attended by Pratt’s co-defendants, GirlsDoPorn videographer Matthew Wolfe, actor Andre Garcia, and administrative assistant Valorie Moser.” The judge entered a not guilty plea for the trio. Two of Pratt’s co-defendants are now in federal custody, while a third is out on bail. One victim said her video was viewed “tens of millions of times.” She changed her name, appearance and profession, and she fears she will never heal.

Although many guidelines for screen time exist, preschool-aged children spend an average of 2.5 hours per day using screens, and online videos from platforms like YouTube are extremely popular for children this age. 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. Meanwhile in a dorm room at Hudson University, two college freshman, Daniel and Matt, watch a pornography video called “18 with a Bang.” They discover that the girl in the video is Evie and decide to invite her to a party.

Girls Do Porn was an official Pornhub content partner, with its videos frequently appearing on the front page, where they gathered millions of views. In addition to granting rights to the videos, a federal judge ruled that GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys must return them and that all of the fraudulent “model agreements” are void. The ruling is part of a restitution order against one of the leaders, performer Ruben Andre Garcia, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this year after pleading guilty to sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. Michael James Pratt, identified by law enforcement as “the ringleader,” remains at large, but his trial is set to begin in June 2022. From approximately 2013 to 2017, Garcia worked as a recruiter, producer, and actor for the GDP and GDT websites, which grossed millions of dollars during this time. Garcia knew the videos were being posted on the fee-based websites, GDP and GDT, and excerpts were posted on free pornographic sites such as Pornhub.com, one of the most frequently viewed websites in the world receiving millions of views, to drive paying viewers to GDP and GDT.

Sammartino sentenced Garcia to 20 years in prison and sentenced Theodore “Teddy” Gyi, a cameraman who filmed about 120 of the videos, to four years in prison. The conspiracy count to which Wolfe pleaded guilty pertains to 15 victims, all adults. 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. Last year, The New York Times exposed Pornhub as a platform for monetized rape, child trafficking sexual abuse, and other forms of nonconsensual image-based abuse. The women begged GirlsDoPorn and Pornhub to remove the videos as early as 2011.

Investigators said that victims were forced into performing nonconsensual sexual acts, and when they wanted their videos removed from the websites, Pratt and his partners threatened and intimidated them. 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. Once the young women responded to the group’s online ads, Pratt and the others would tell them that the jobs were for pornographic videos and not modeling gigs, according to court documents. Pratt is accused of recruiting the victims from throughout the United States and Canada using internet advertisements for clothed modeling jobs. The civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions have also entangled popular free porn sites such as PornHub. Late last year, Pornhub’s parent company agreed to pay more than $1.8 million to resolve a criminal probe alleging it profited from sex trafficking through its hosting of GirlsDoPorn videos.