GirlsDoPorn owner charged with child porn for scene with 16-year-old

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Instead, the women signed release forms “permitting unfettered use of the video,” according to a defense trial brief. An investigation in the Sunday Times of London revealed illegal videos on the site involving children as young as three. “No platform on the internet has taken the significant steps we have to protect the safety and security of our community,” said Sarah Bain, a spokeswoman for Ethical Capital Partners, a Canadian private equity firm that owns the Pornhub network of adult-content 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. “This defendant lured one victim after another with fake modeling ads, false promises and deceptive front companies, ultimately devolving to threats to coerce these women into making sex videos.”

San Diego porn case: Civil trial against GirlsDoPorn.com website operators begins

• While the pornographic nature of the work was sometimes discussed beforehand, some women claim they were not informed until after they arrived in San Diego, where the site’s owners filmed scenes at various high-end downtown San Diego hotels.
• He and his partners used threats of lawsuits, canceled flights home and, in some cases, physically blocked the door so the young women could not escape.
• “Our prosecutors will leave no stone unturned in our effort to stop the tragedy of human trafficking and bring justice and restorative resources to its victims.”
• The website still lingers after all this time, and some of the videos have circulated to other porn sites as well, according to earlier reports.

There is no dispute Deyun Shi bludgeoned his teenage relatives in 2016, but his attorneys argue during his trial that he was suffering from mental illness. Dozens of victims had gathered at San Diego’s James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep Courthouse to speak at the sentencing hearing when they were told that Pratt was in federal custody. Parents even be even wary of sleepovers and be aware of who they’re children are engaging with online, she adds, cautioning that the moment that you see something that is inappropriate, don’t keep quiet or shout. And with the endemic nature of gender-based violence and femicide, girls and women are the most vulnerable in SA. If you reframe what healthy sexuality is, says the psychologist, they are less likely to depend on information from friends or media. Parents must present accurate information too, like how to prevent pregnancy and STIs and what informed consent is.

GirlsDoPorn boss who went on the lam extradited…

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. 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. Prosecutors have alleged that Pratt and those who worked for him recruited young women online as models, but when the women arrived in San Diego, they were pressured to have sex on camera. The women were told the videos would go to private DVD collections overseas, but instead they were widely disseminated on the GirlsDoPorn network of sites, as well as free pornography sites. A man accused of masterminding a vast conspiracy that tricked and coerced young women into filming pornographic videos for his online GirlsDoPorn empire has been extradited from Spain to San Diego to face numerous federal charges.

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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.

The report says there was a “meaningful decrease” in searches for CSAM on Pornhub and that at least “in part” the chatbot and warning messages appear to have played a role. Pornhub, which is owned by parent company Aylo (formerly MindGeek), uses a list of 34,000 banned terms, across multiple languages and with millions of combinations, to block searches for child abuse material, a spokesperson for the company says. It is one way Pornhub tries to combat illegal material, the spokesperson says, and is part of the company’s efforts aimed at user safety, after years of allegations it has hosted child exploitation and nonconsensual videos. When people in the UK have searched for any of the terms on Pornhub’s list, the warning message and chatbot have appeared. For the past two years, millions of people searching for child abuse videos on Pornhub’s UK website have been interrupted. Each of the 4.4 million times someone has typed in words or phrases linked to abuse, a warning message has blocked the page, saying that kind of content is illegal.