40 GirlsDoPorn victims sue Pornhub for hosting sex trafficking videos

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So the footage from that horrific night — which was uploaded to the platform without her consent — was downloaded millions of times. So, while GirlsDoPorn has since been shuttered and she now owns the rights to the videos, Jane Doe is forever playing a game of whack-a-mole, finding clips in new places all the time. She is forced to relive that night each time as she petitions for their removal. “There is evidence from the defendants’ own records demonstrating the presence of thousands of pieces of CSAM on their sites,” in previous years, US District Judge Cormac J. Carney wrote in the order, using the acronym for child sexual abuse material. In yet another ripple, Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo — formerly MindGeek — was ordered last year to submit to three years of federal monitoring of its content and screening.

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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. But not the videos strewn across its site, unless they were directly uploaded to that Girls Do Porn page. Since then, 22 survivors have been awarded nearly $13 million in damages, and 402 victims were given copyright ownership of videos featuring them, making it easier to scrub them from the web. 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 a four-month trial, anonymous women testified that GirlsDoPorn flew them to San Diego hotels for “modeling” gigs.

• For starters, people’s desire for each other is at its highest early in the relationship during a phase called limerance.
• I jumped out of my seat,” said one victim about learning of Pratt’s presence in the courthouse Tuesday.
• Pornhub’s purge of millions of videos, presumably including many of the videos in which the plaintiffs appeared, was announced on December 14.
• Pratt is the only fugitive in the case and has the financial means to be anywhere around the world, according to the FBI.
• Most of the hyperlink advertisements on these victim’s videos redirect the visitor to MindGeek’s paysite, Others redirect the visitor to third-party paysites, such as JerkMate.com.
• They said Garcia and other defendants went so far as to provide contracts to women with fake company names like “Bubblegum Casting” so that they would not make the connection to GirlsDoPorn, according to KNSD.

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Ruben Andre Garcia, 31, the producer of GirlsDoPorn site has pleaded guilty to federal charges after it was revealed he tricked and forced women into appearing in sex videos. Some of the women allegedly signed documents without reviewing them and were then threatened with legal action if they chose not to participate. Others were allegedly not permitted to leave the video shooting location until they performed certain sex acts they declined to do. As the Federal Bureau of Investigation continues its manhunt for the owner of GirlsDoPorn, the site’s videographer pleaded not guilty in federal court to sex trafficking charges.

• A 15-year-old Florida girl who went missing for a year was found when a Pornhub user reached out to the girl’s mother.
• Prosecutors say numerous women were lured by the defendants through the promise of modeling jobs, flown to San Diego, then were threatened with lawsuits and canceled return flights home if they backed out of filming pornographic videos.
• This same victim said they sent two more messages and the video was not taken off MindGeek’s sites until after October 2019, the lawsuit added.
• Pornhub, launched in 2007 and based in Montreal, lets users upload amateur and professional porn videos in much the same way users upload to YouTube.

It became clear to this young woman that this was porn, which she had no interest in, despite the promise of good pay for very little work. You see, since recording that video, Megan had gone on to higher education, and was using a scholarship she had obtained in high school to study journalism. In addition to participating in pageants and cheerleading, she had also achieved outstanding honors and won numerous academic awards.

In September of 2020, the FBI would announce a $10,000 reward for any information that led to the arrest of Michael James Pratt, who stands about six feet tall, weighs upwards of 200 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes, and may have a tattoo on his left arm. He is known to be a private and paranoid person who is prone to emotional outbursts that may turn violent, so please use caution. Very few photos of him exist on the internet, but the ones that do will be posted on the podcast website as well as our social media accounts. Wolfe would end up shooting more than a hundred videos for GirlsDoPorn, before going on to launch a spinoff venture in 2014 called “GirlsDoToys” (which is exactly what you think it was). Doug Wiederhold – one of Michael Pratt’s original male performers – had gone on to launch a spinoff of his own in 2011 called “MomPov” (which, if you’re catching onto the subtleties of their clever naming conventions, was centered around older women).