When that failed to prevent the inevitable, Pratt decided to file for bankruptcy, which he hoped would sink the lawsuit by moving it to a separate court and jurisdiction altogether. But, much to his chagrin, the case remained in the California court it had been filed in, due to the work of the plaintiffs’ attorney Brian Holm, who was able to produce evidence of Pratt using this bankruptcy as a shield to stall the court proceedings. In several of the GirlsDoPorn videos, you can see these containers and suitcases blocking the front door of the hotel. This was cited by many of the victims as an intimidation tactic used by the producers, who wanted the women to feel trapped inside of the hotel room; unable to say no to the demands they were giving at the last minute, preventing them from leaving. The site would feature a new girl every week, over several years, like clockwork.
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Garcia, Pratt, and Wolfe were also charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion. If found guilty, they face a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine. Prosecutors allege the website’s owners and operators lured victims with advertisements for clothed modeling gigs. 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.
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- Jane Doe 7 ended up filming a porn video under duress in a hotel room where furniture blocked the door, preventing her from leaving.
- Girls Do Porn was a “content partner” on Pornhub, meaning the two companies had a contractual agreement.
- Many of the women said viewers found and published their full names online, resulting in severe harassment and suicidal thoughts, for some of them.
- Ruben Andre Garcia, who will also be on supervised release from 10 years following the completion of his custodial term, was among six people charged with filming pornographic scenes that prosecutors said were made under coercive and fraudulent circumstances.
- Under the ruling, where the judicial panel encouraged lawmakers to change the law, the appellate court upheld a lower court’s decision where a 16-year-old girl was convicted as her own pornographer.
Dozens of women reported their social lives falling apart in the wake of the videos being published, and countless among them would report being kicked out of school, disowned by their families, fired from their jobs, attempting suicide, or suffering some other form of life-altering alienation. Dozens would even report long-lasting psychological problems stemming from the videos being published and shared among their loved ones and acquaintances. Dozens, if not hundreds, of the women featured on GirlsDoPorn were subjected to sex acts that they had not consented to, and which they had received guarantees they wouldn’t have to perform on video.
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Jonathan made the final arrangements, and Jane prepared to be treated like a celebrity for a day. Also in October 2015, Jane Doe 17 said she was tagged in an Instagram post advertising the pornographic video she had filmed after responding to a Craigslist ad, which she thought no one would ever see. The post on the Girls Do Porn account included a photo of her on a hotel bed captioned “Coming soon.” The next day, she filed a report at the San Diego Police Department. She felt as though she hadn’t truly consented to being filmed because she was deceived about where the video would be released. She also said she wasn’t allowed to leave the shoot when she said she was in pain and asked to stop. Viewers shared the link to the video on the Yelp page for her mother’s hair salon, her ex-boyfriend’s fraternity played it during a chapter meeting, and she dropped out of school because she was too scared to go to class.
The tendency to label any sexually explicit image as pornographic affects how law enforcement, juries and doctors view the crimes, Souras said. It causes confusion and implies that any children pictured were willing participants, which is not possible. Other victims were physically prevented from leaving the San Diego hotel rooms or short-term rental units where the scenes were filmed, often with defendants barricading the doors with cameras or recording equipment, prosecutors said. GirlsDoPorn is an adult subscription service launched in 2006 by New Zealander Michael Pratt and operated by Ruben Garcia and Matthew Wolfe. Filmed in homes, hotels and trailer parks, videos on GirlsDoPorn specialise in promoting the image of the “ordinary” college girl who is making her first and only pornographic film. And once the images hit the internet, many of the women were threatened, harassed and faced other serious repercussions.
Most of the people who ran Girls Do Porn have either been arrested or have pled guilty to federal charges of trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; in 2022, after nearly three years as a wanted fugitive and months on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, co-owner Michael Pratt was arrested in Spain. The plaintiff-victims, some of whom were paying their way through college or needed money for rent, were lured into the defendants’ pornography scheme through phony ads on Craigslist.com for clothed modeling gigs. Victims were promised thousands of dollars for 30 minutes of adult film work and guaranteed that their identities would remain anonymous and that the videos would never be posted online or distributed in the U.S. The defendants represented that the videos would be sold exclusively on DVDs overseas for private use and provided other women as references, who lied to the victims, claiming they had filmed videos and no one had ever found out. Two other members of Pratt’s team have already been indicted, including the porn actor Ruben Andre Garcia of San Diego who was sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking in California district court.
But Aylo allegedly ignored those requests, even as the civil proceedings and trial in San Diego Superior Court brought to light the fraud and deception involved in making the videos, according to the complaint. A short time later, that footage was posted on Girls Do Porn’s website and uploaded to other popular free porn tube sites, including Pornhub, despite the promise that the footage would only be distributed via DVDs on the other side of the world. Many of the women said viewers found and published their full names online, resulting in severe harassment and suicidal thoughts, for some of them.
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The owners and operators of GirlsDoPorn knew the type of women they wanted to appear in their amateur porn videos—college-age millennials—would not agree to casually participate in the porn industry. After all, these women grew up in the Internet age, where amateur porn has been rampantly available for years. On top of that, many instances of their peers’ sexual exploration through sexting had traveled down several slippery slopes, including cases where teens had been criminally charged for sharing x-rated media they took of themselves. Prosecutors allege the website’s owners and operators lured unsuspecting young women, and at least one underage girl, with advertisements for clothed modeling gigs. When it was revealed that the job involved filming adult videos, the victims were led to believe the videos they appeared in would be distributed only to private customers living outside of the country, rather than proliferated online, according to the U.S.
It would later be learned that they didn’t have any of the necessary permits to film adult content, and often smuggled the film and sound equipment to the hotel room in suitcases and other large luggage containers. A short time later, she received a written response from an individual calling himself “Jonathan N” (who responded using the email address). In this email, Jane was offered $4,000 for a first photoshoot – just regular modeling, mind you – but was told that she could be paid an additional $1,000 for an additional video shoot…
Reminders of this incident will continue to haunt them as long as the internet exists… And until those that did them harm are finally convicted for their alleged crimes. Andre Garcia – the third of the men alleged to have participated in this long-running scheme – was called to the stand but refused to testify, pleading the fifth to every question asked of him. He failed to answer his court summons, having returned to New Zealand due to what friend and confidante Matthew Wolfe described as “health issues related to threats he had received,” but offering up no details about either the threats or the health issues involved.