GirlsDoPorn operator admits videos part of a sex-trafficking conspiracy

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The model was upset because Pratt allegedly told her and others that the footage of them would be mailed directly to private buyers in Australia and their identities would be kept a secret. According to the Daily Beast, Moser claimed she was responsible for picking the models up from the airport, getting them in makeup and dropping them off at hotels for shoots. “Defendants immediately benefitted from doxxing of their models,” the judge said. “Publication and dissemination of the models’ names and personal information increased views and traffic to Defendants’ tube channels, increased name ID for their brand, and boosted subscription sales.”

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• That case resulted in a $13 million verdict against the men earlier this month.
• Besides Pornhub, the GirlsDoPorn videos were also hosted on other MindGeek properties referred to as “Tubesites” in the lawsuit.
• If one of the victims agreed to act in the pornographic video, Garcia and his co-conspirators promptly booked flights to San Diego within a day or two to limit the chances that the victim would change her mind.
• Between May and June 2022, court records say Bailey used numerous email addresses, phone numbers and Snapchat accounts to harass and threaten the adult victim in a manner that was consistent and aggressive.
• Sixty-two women featured in GirlsDoPorn videos have also sued Aylo Media S.A.R.L., PornHub’s Luxembourg-incorporated parent company, in San Diego federal court, alleging that PornHub illegally published sex-trafficking videos.
• The Uber driver who responded to Williams’ request for a ride allowed the girls to get in the car and didn’t ask for their ages, the complaint says.

According to records obtained by The Appeal, it appears that police never followed up. In one case, a complaint by a woman who alleged that she was raped by a man who worked for Girls Do Porn was closed the day it was filed. During that time, Pratt allegedly threatened and blackmailed her into filming more pornographic content for GirlsDoPorn. The lawsuit also alleges that Pratt forced Althaus to perform oral sex on him and threatened her with a gun. Prosecutors allege that Pratt and those who worked for him recruited young women and at least one minor as models, but when the women arrived in San Diego, they were pressured to have sex on camera.

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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. Once the videos were posted online many victims contacted Garcia and his co-conspirators seeking to get their videos taken off the websites. As a part of the conspiracy, Garcia and others would at times coerce victims into completing the videos once they were underway. Garcia and other co-conspirators threatened to sue the victims, cancel flights home, and post the videos online, if the victims did not complete the sex videos. Hotel room doors were at times blocked by camera and recording equipment, and the victims felt powerless and unable to leave.

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However, the videos were later distributed publicly via sites including Pornhub according to US Attorneys. How could millennial women, living in an age where porn is almost exclusively viewed online, ever believe their own videos would never be posted on the Internet? To start, it takes a thought-out criminal scheme where the perpetrators were dedicated to leaving no paper trail. But GirlsDoPorn’s successful manipulation was possible because large swaths of society still label women who participate in sex work as cultural pariahs. The GirlsDoPorn operators knew this, and they wagered the Does’ shame over appearing in porn would likely ensure these victims would not take the site’s management to task for this fraud.

And it became this real team effort where we had whistleblowers who were coming forward, and survivors who were coming forward, and attorneys and journalists and lawmakers, and everybody kind of taking their place and doing their part. And I think that is what made this effort particularly effective over the last few years. And so, as I began to continue to investigate that, I was trying to dig in to understand this intersection between the pornography industry and sex trafficking and these crimes and other harms. Bailey had kept the images of the 12-year-old for more than five years before sending them to the adult victim, according to court records, and threatened to distribute the images to family members of the adult victim and across the Internet if the adult did not do as Bailey asked. After the girls were dropped off, Williams took them into his backyard and encouraged them to smoke a marijuana cigarette, the lawsuit says.

Current rules and online tools for dealing with ongoing attacks are insufficient, said Neff, as they do not deal with chronic abuse affecting women. “The platform companies have to be held accountable by legislation,” she said. “Blocking and locking” accounts, while dealing with acute danger, are not effective for anyone who wants to have an online persona, said Neff.