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Victims were also often paid significantly less than originally promised with Garcia and others would citing a tattoo, a mole, or some other perceived “imperfection” to pay the victim less. 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.

• The references were paid a fee for each victim they attempted to recruit, with additional compensation for victims who agreed to film a video.
• “We all knew that birth control existed, but we also knew it was impossible to get,” begins her essay “The Illegal Days,” part of Paley’s collection Just As I Thought.
• Also, when your sex life is lacking, other aspects of your life usually fall apart, too.

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Those categories range from BDSM to Sex Toys and everything in between. Expect to pay anywhere from $50 to $100 per hour watching one of the Jerkmate shows. “It doesn’t take long to stumble upon any number of racist titles that promote offensive and unwarranted racial stereotypes about Black women. So we know that porn glorifies violence, but research also indicates that porn’s sexually violent narratives can bleed into consumers’ attitudes and behaviors. For the past decade, Literary Hub has brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. In return for a donation, you’ll get an ad-free reading experience, exclusive editors’ picks, book giveaways, and our coveted Joan Didion Lit Hub tote bag.

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The complaint further alleges that Pratt took Althaus’ cellphone during the filming and only gave it back to her afterward. Wiederhold is scheduled to appear for sentencing in July before U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino, who has sentenced all the other defendants in the GirlsDoPorn case other than website owner Michael James Pratt , whose case remains ongoing. That’s what drew Donald “Trey” Brown III to Teen Line, where he was training before his suicide. It was a moment hundreds of women had been waiting for — and one many feared would never come. The offer “presented the opportunity to spare DOMI the expense, burden, and risks of trial for the low price of $16,478,” according to the lawsuit.

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• She still feels each of her emotions deeply, rattled often by the sting of trauma but is emerging with a hopefulness she hasn’t had over the last six-and-a-half years.
• Pratt is charged with multiple counts of conspiracy and sex trafficking, as well as one count of producing child pornography in connection with the scheme, from which he and his team made millions, court records show.
• 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.
• Here’s how you can attempt to squirt, or find inner peace if you can’t make squirting happen.
• Pratt allegedly fled the country after the civil trial got underway.

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On January 2, 2020, after a 99-day bench trial, Judge Kevin A. Enright awarded the plaintiffs $13 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The defendants were ordered to remove all videos of plaintiffs from the Internet and cease all distribution of them. During the civil trial, Pratt, Garcia, Wolfe, and several other individuals were criminally indicted for sex trafficking. Once home, unbeknownst to the women, Pratt and his co-defendants would post clips of the adult videos on other pornographic sites like Pornhub to lure users to GirlsDoPorn for full-length versions of the films, court records show. Pratt, who charged users a GirlsDoPorn subscription fee, made more than $17 million in revenue, according to the records. 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.

For those of us who care about the injustice of sexual crime and desire to stand in real solidarity with its victims, our activism must include holding to account all individuals and corporations that participate in exploitation. Michael Pratt, the main culprit of the trafficking scheme, fled the country and is a wanted fugitive. And Pornhub executives who are accused of distributing and profiting from the victims’ trauma have yet to face civil or criminal consequences. Brian Holm, one of the attorneys who has fought for the victims for more than six years, said Garcia’s sentencing was a life-changing moment for the women. 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.