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Porn site owner pleads guilty to sex trafficking in San Diego

June 6 (UPI) -- Michael Pratt, the mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn website and an international fugitive for three years, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in federal court in San Diego.

Pratt pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to sex trafficking from 2012 to 2019 and sex trafficking a victim in 2012 of the superseding indictment, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.

Sentencing for Pratt, 42, is scheduled for Sept. 8 before U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino.

He liquidated his assets and fled from the United States in 2019. He was named to the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list until his arrest in Spain on Dec. 22, 2022, and was extradited to San Diego in March 2024.

Pratt was charged in October 2019 in the Southern District of California in connection with deceiving and coercing hundreds of young women from the United States and Canada to appear in pornographic videos.

Pratt and his co-defendants used force, fraud and coercion on the women -- mostly in their late teens -- to appear in GirlsDoPorn videos, the Department of Justice said.

During court hearings, victims detailed how they had lost jobs, were evicted, dropped out of school or was disowned by friends and family. Some attempted suicide.

According to prosecutors, Pratt sometimes transported the women to and from the site of the video shoot at hotels or short-term rental units in the San Diego area.

The prospective models were told the video would never be posted online or released in the United States.

In 2012, Pratt recruited co-defendant Matthew Wolfe, now 43, to work for him. They also developed GirlsDoToys out of the same office in San Diego.

With million of views, they posted video content on free porn sites such.

The websites charged visitors a subscription fee to access content, and generated $17 million in revenue for them, according to prosecutors.

In 2013, Pratt recruited another co-defendant, Ruben Andre Garcia, a male model who engaged in sex acts on video with the women. Garcia is now 36.

Prosecutors said Pratt and other members of the conspiracy ensured that the victims did not find out they owned and operated GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys.

If the women said they wanted to stop making the video, the co-conspirators threatened to sue the women, cancel flights home and post the videos online, prosecutors said.

In May 2012, Pratt used the alias "Matt" to recruit Victim 1 for modeling and posted an ad on Craigslist as Bubblegum Casting.

The victim, who was 18, was told the job was actually to shoot an "adult video" but was falsely told it would only be seen in Australia by private clients and would not be posted on the internet.

The victim was persuaded to fly from a state outside of California to San Diego for the video shoot at a hotel. Pratt told the FBI he gave the victim $2,000.

Garcia was sentenced to 20 years in prison on June 14, 2021; Theodore Gyi, 47, who served as a photographer, four years on Nov. 9, 2022; Wolfe 14 years on March 20, 2024. Valorie Moser, 42, the office manager, is set for sentencing on Sept. 12.

"I can remember being so worried to tell him [Garcia] that I was just 17," a woman told the court during a hearing for Garcia. "But he was not mad or concerned. Instead, he was excited and was eager to start."

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

Whores getting tricked in the chase for money, more news at 11

 

[Yeeted Teet]

Professional porn has age verification requirements. No one works unless they are 18+.

Pornhub verified a 15 year old trafficking victim who had been a missing person for a year.

 

[frozen_runner]

Sex and even eroticism is fine. Porn is a different thing. Eating is something you need to survive. Even indulge with some treats once in a while is fine. But gluttony is not just a sin, it's just bad for you, physically and emotionally. Porn is the same. It's not healthy sexuality and it's often highly damaging for the performer.

Porn is a vice. Nobody but the stupidest person on Earth thinks it's a good thing in and of itself. (Parents: nut up and police your kid's behavior online.) It's never a good idea to go into porn as an "actor," either.

But it would take someone even stupider (and perhaps very young and ignorant) to think the government of any country should be empowered to ban pornography. That's blackest gorilla nigger-levels of stupid. Because the moralists will inevitably change the definition of "porn" over time, just like leftoids do with every word they use to browbeat the insufficiently woketarded. And because what motivates all seriously motivated censors is authoritarianism at worst and purity spiraling at best. Either way, it won't end at porn. Faggy moralists will always take it as far as they can in the struggle to think themselves the most moral and godly. That shit is routinely happening on this very website, in fact.

Monsterous authoritarians scheming to censor us all into a more morally upright society makes me want to create the filthiest shit allowed under current law and shove it in their faces until they cry. And don't kid yourself: pretty much everyone who uses the Farms regularly is wired the same way, on some level, or should understand the importance of that impulse.

And we all figured out at several points in the past that outlawing vices didn't work, didn't we? Why have we forgotten it?

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Porn is a vice. Nobody but the stupidest person on Earth thinks it's a good thing in and of itself. (Parents: nut up and police your kid's behavior online.) It's never a good idea to go into porn as an "actor," either.

But it would take someone even stupider (and perhaps very young and ignorant) to think the government of any country should be empowered to ban pornography. That's blackest gorilla nigger-levels of stupid. Because the moralists will inevitably change the definition of "porn" over time, just like leftoids do with every word they use to browbeat the insufficiently woketarded. And because what motivates all seriously motivated censors is authoritarianism at worst and purity spiraling at best. Either way, it won't end at porn. Faggy moralists will always take it as far as they can in the struggle to think themselves the most moral and godly. That shit is routinely happening on this very website, in fact.

Monsterous authoritarians scheming to censor us all into a more morally upright society makes me want to create the filthiest shit allowed under current law and shove it in their faces until they cry. And don't kid yourself: pretty much everyone who uses the Farms regularly is wired the same way, on some level, or should understand the importance of that impulse.

And we all figured out at several points in the past that outlawing vices didn't work, didn't we? Why have we forgotten it?

I don't disagree with you. I think that the ideal situation is indeed that porn is banned, but if we are pragmatic about it, it's not gonna work and people will find loopholes, etc. I mean, music is perfectly legal and we still pirate it. The benefit won't justify the cost.

But we still need to find a way to limit its access. We also need to be more open about how damaging is for the people involved and the consumer. That's how we are failing: we are encouraging it and treating women as if they're doing some noble work for letting themselves get fucked in the ass by two blacks. And all because "women's rights" and women making choices.

Reminds me of that recent video interviewing Bonnie Blue and her being so apologetic about her "art". The interviewer is repulsed by her, yet someone mentioned she couldn't say anything really because this is the final result of feminism and that's why she couldn't find a proper way to refute what she was saying.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

You can just not consume porn. Its not that hard.

Easier said than done with it being so prolific and easily accessible, that's why there's porn addicts. And that doesn't actually refute my point anyway.

But it would take someone even stupider (and perhaps very young and ignorant) to think the government of any country should be empowered to ban pornography. That's blackest gorilla nigger-levels of stupid. Because the moralists will inevitably change the definition of "porn" over time, just like leftoids do with every word they use to browbeat the insufficiently woketarded.

How can you change the definition of porn? It's literally limited to sex. They can't take our guns or something by defining them as porn, this seems like an unfounded fear to me. A porn ban would be fine.

 

[frozen_runner]

How can you change the definition of porn?

How can "woman" mean "a man in a dress?" How can "racially insensitive" come to mean outright "racist?" How can a grown-ass woman be "groomed?" How can "I don't care about the color of your skin" mean you're now a "white supremacist?" How can "groped by an asshole" mean the same thing as rape by calling it "sexual assault?" How can welfare become an "entitlement?" How can words become "violence?"

And how can Michelangelo's David and books for grownups be called porn? (As happened in the 80s by bored, god-bothering housewives ginning up a moral panic?) Because stupid fucking moralists do what they do to control other people and to virtue signal, not to make the world better. And they never let good enough alone because they have good intentions.

Just be a better and more engaged parent. Don't give your tween a smartphone. It isn't impossible.

 

[urr13 account]

Just make all porn illegal for 5 years, round up the degenerates who cant control themselves.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

How can "woman" mean "a man in a dress?" How can "racially insensitive" come to mean outright "racist?" How can a grown-ass woman be "groomed?" How can "I don't care about the color of your skin" mean you're now a "white supremacist?" How can "groped by an asshole" mean the same thing as rape by calling it "sexual assault?" How can welfare become an "entitlement?" How can words become "violence?"

Those are still closely related, women and men are both human, for example. However, this does remind me of the claims that the recently passed Texas bill could theoretically result in stuff like mature anime being banned, which was admittedly somewhat concerning. While I may be against that it still would not be the major leap you're insinuating would happen.

And how can Michelangelo's David and books for grownups be called porn? (As happened in the 80s by bored, god-bothering housewives ginning up a moral panic?) Because stupid fucking moralists do what they do to control other people and to virtue signal, not to make the world better. And they never let good enough alone because they have good intentions.

But those things never actually became classified as porn, did they? That's the crux of the matter.

Just be a better and more engaged parent. Don't give your tween a smartphone. It isn't impossible.

Sure, but at school or friend's homes or anywhere outside when you're not around they can be exposed to it through their peers. It's a pervasive issue and "lol parent better " isn't sufficient.

 

[CarlosDanger]

Glad the prick is going to prison but there is some truly retarded women involved in this. I was reading an article about one of the girls suing, that said she was basically drugged and raped, and then forced to give this guy a blowjob and he put a gun in her mouth. Then right after that she agreed to do another scene, and went on to do like 4 or 5 more scenes with this sick bastard. How in the world can you be this retarded?

 

[northstar747]

This is like the same shit they used to go after the guy that did the Mom POV shit

please dont talk about me or ethans mom

 

[TheNazgulKing]

Porn is a vice. Nobody but the stupidest person on Earth thinks it's a good thing in and of itself. (Parents: nut up and police your kid's behavior online.) It's never a good idea to go into porn as an "actor," either.

But it would take someone even stupider (and perhaps very young and ignorant) to think the government of any country should be empowered to ban pornography. That's blackest gorilla nigger-levels of stupid. Because the moralists will inevitably change the definition of "porn" over time, just like leftoids do with every word they use to browbeat the insufficiently woketarded. And because what motivates all seriously motivated censors is authoritarianism at worst and purity spiraling at best. Either way, it won't end at porn. Faggy moralists will always take it as far as they can in the struggle to think themselves the most moral and godly. That shit is routinely happening on this very website, in fact.

Monsterous authoritarians scheming to censor us all into a more morally upright society makes me want to create the filthiest shit allowed under current law and shove it in their faces until they cry. And don't kid yourself: pretty much everyone who uses the Farms regularly is wired the same way, on some level, or should understand the importance of that impulse.

And we all figured out at several points in the past that outlawing vices didn't work, didn't we? Why have we forgotten it?

Here's a simple compromise: make porn as difficult for minors to access as alcohol, by requiring viewers to provide the same age verification you need to buy alcohol online.

Yes, underage people get their hands on alcohol using one method or another. But it would make it more difficult for 13-year-olds to become gooners, just like liquor laws make it harder for underage people to buy booze. Anybody who's of legal age can spank their monkey to all the porn they desire, and all they need to do is verify their age with a state or federal ID and a picture of their face.

Given the number of underage goonclowns who've popped up on the radar here, that seems a reasonable ask. Yet every time you bring it up "free speech activists" with bags under their eyes and hair on their palms immediately start whining about censorship and muh freedoms and how ID verification creates a database of coomers. And sites like Pornhub have blocked access in states that require ID rather than admit that too many kids are developing a lifelong monkey spanking habit.

 

[The Ugly One]

But it would take someone even stupider (and perhaps very young and ignorant) to think the government of any country should be empowered to ban pornography.

The government of every country, including the United States, which has the widest free speech protections on the planet, is empowered to regulate porn. The slippery slope from regulating porn to regulating criticism of the government has simply never happened, because it's silly.

And we all figured out at several points in the past that outlawing vices didn't work, didn't we?

Every time a lolbert claims that laws don't affect people's behavior, and every time I've actually looked at the data, the lolbert has been wrong. The reason is pretty simple, it's called the law of supply and demand (which lolberts claim to believe in except when it's drugs or porn). When the price goes up, demand goes down. When something is legally restricted, obtaining it becomes more costly. Thus demand goes down.

At the end of the day, libertarianism is really just about getting high and masturbating.

 

[BradeRunna]

It's very dumb that porn is okay but only if you don't fly the women in from elsewhere. The problem is making and distributing porn, not some bullshit technicalities.


The burden of ethical production doesn't fall on the consumer, I don't know if everything I buy has no ties to child slave labor in sweatshops or whatever. Porn should mainly be banned because it's immoral, those other concerns are secondary.


That doesn't make it okay.

Porn is fine.

Have you ever seen a porn? They running a little message saying that everyone involved has been verified to be legal adults. Something about some kind of US legal code. That they have record to verify this meaning photocopies of the ID's of people involved. Porn is just like any other job. You need an ID to work at Walmart. You need to an ID to be in fuck flicks. All these people screeching about people underage in porn movies are just retarded faggots that have no idea what they are talking about. Any bitch that says she was underage when the scene was filmed can be proven to be a liar easily.

Yes, it's ok.

Lmfao sure buddy, Pornhub also claimed to be a “professional porn website”, even though it profitted from sex trafficking and CP.

Sounds like you have an addiction and should consider suicide.


You can just not consume porn. Its not that hard.

Are you fucking retarded? Of course you are. Pornhub is a site where anyone could upload porn videos. From amateurs to professionals. If Brazzers or any of the other porn studios out there do a scene they have the ID's of the people involved. Their status as an adult is verified. They have photocopies of the ID's on record. This is required by law.

Normal men brag about the women they sleep with, not porn consumption. I mean you can’t help but keep digging yourself deeper.

Ok faggot.

Pornhub verified a 15 year old trafficking victim who had been a missing person for a year.

Read my explanation above. Now take your hysterical faggotry somewhere else.

 

[Procopius]

17 milion dollars, jesus

I wonder what the final profit was.
This isn't like pimping, they earned money from just views and subscriptions?

And THAT in an era with free porn

Though I guess that's over the course of, what, 10 years? And doesn't include money that went to the girls, travel/hotel expenses, etc
But still, damn

17 million dollars over 8 years. Roughly 2 million a year. $50,000 a month. That's about the same as the average second hand car dealer. And this was supposedly one of the most popular sites around. There may be one or two people making a lot in porn, but the majority would be better off flipping burgers.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Porn is fine.

That's a baseless assertion without a supportive argument, we all know about the negative effects of it and that there's nothing good about it.

Have you ever seen a porn? They running a little message saying that everyone involved has been verified to be legal adults. Something about some kind of US legal code. That they have record to verify this meaning photocopies of the ID's of people involved. Porn is just like any other job. You need an ID to work at Walmart. You need to an ID to be in fuck flicks. All these people screeching about people underage in porn movies are just retarded faggots that have no idea what they are talking about. Any bitch that says she was underage when the scene was filmed can be proven to be a liar easily.

Yeah, never saw that message though. Regardless, the problem with porn goes beyond the fact (which you're denying despite proof to the contrary) that minors can slip through the cracks and still be featured.

Yes, it's ok.

It's still not okay.

 

[Smar Mijou]

Have you ever seen a porn? They running a little message saying that everyone involved has been verified to be legal adults. Something about some kind of US legal code. That they have record to verify this meaning photocopies of the ID's of people involved. Porn is just like any other job. You need an ID to work at Walmart. You need to an ID to be in fuck flicks. All these people screeching about people underage in porn movies are just retarded faggots that have no idea what they are talking about. Any bitch that says she was underage when the scene was filmed can be proven to be a liar easily.

Again, Traci Lords. Also, kill yourself, nigger-faggot.

 

[Mister Fister]

Ok faggot.

So you're calling me a faggot because normal men would rather be with a woman than touch themselves. Sound logic there.

 

[Dr. Butt]

I'm once again so happy to learn that so many KF men do not consume any pornographic material at all, as evidenced by their rage at and hatred for the women who perform in it.

 

[BradeRunna]

So you're calling me a faggot because normal men would rather be with a woman than touch themselves. Sound logic there.

Ok faggot.

 

[User 204766]

This is like the same shit they used to go after the guy that did the Mom POV shit. I can't believe those guys paid those average bitches thousands of dollars to shoot a porn scene. It's called Mom POV so it wasn't even young women. I watched some of them and its bitches in their 30's 40's and even older doing porn. They definitely overpaid a lot of them. These days you can find them all for free. I don't think anyone is going after them for copyright shit.

I don't know if they ever went after the BRCC guy. lol

hey dummy, these are the Mom POV dudes,

17 million dollars over 8 years. Roughly 2 million a year. $50,000 a month. That's about the same as the average second hand car dealer. And this was supposedly one of the most popular sites around. There may be one or two people making a lot in porn, but the majority would be better off flipping burgers.

i strongly believe most porn sites are part of some scheme, by the numbers there's no way it was worth making or hosting this content. its one thing to just have swingers record videos of themselves but everything else was probably funded through some USAID bullshit, there's just no way in hell its profitable unless some books are being cooked.