GirlsDoPorn website goes offline after $13M judgment, criminal charges

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Prosecutors recommended roughly the same prison term for Garcia, the actor, when he was sentenced in June 2021 after pleading guilty to a sex-trafficking conspiracy. A generational gap in understanding online platforms and digital literacy is one reason the young women and girls surveyed and interviewed showed little trust in adults and existing mechanisms to root out abusers and perpetrators. About half of the young women and girls surveyed in Africa (55%) reported seeing or receiving unwanted sexual images. In the US, Arkansas and Utah were among the first to sign bills focusing on children’s online safety in 2023 and dozens of states have proposed or enacted legislation to regulate social media platforms in recent years. New York passed a children’s act against addictive social media feeds in June, and a Senate bill for children’s online safety is currently in the works.

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• Weeks after they returned home, the videos were released in full on Pratt’s subscription site, and as clips on PornHub and other popular free porn platforms.
• This previous lawsuit resulted in Girls Do Porn being ordered to pay $12.8m in damages as well as ownership rights to the videos they featured in.
• In October of last year, the Daily Beast reported on a motion in which their attorney claimed to have interviewed 100 women with similar stories of fraud and coercion by GirlsDoPorn, and over a dozen accused actor Andre Garcia of sexual assault.
• This suit comes as Pornhub is trying to fend off allegations that it profits from illegal content.
• MindGeek’s defense against the lawsuit could cite Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives legal immunity to online platforms that host user-submitted content.

“As a result, plaintiffs have suffered and continue to suffer far-reaching and often tragic consequences,” he wrote. For many, the porn boss’ extradition marks “the beginning of the end” of the years-long ordeal, said Holm’s colleague John O’Brien. One woman said Tuesday she had undergone so much cosmetic surgery to change her appearance that she could no longer get past facial recognition software at airports. “I’m the one with the life sentence I will never be free from,” the woman later said. According to sentencing documents filed by Wolfe and his attorney, Wolfe and Pratt grew up together in New Zealand, though they were not particularly close friends. After high school, Wolfe got into computer programming and worked at a bar.

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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. In fact, he knew the illegally obtained videos were being posted online, including on Pornhub, one of the most visited websites in the world. Originally, women responded to adverts for clothed modelling work and were then told they would be highly paid for anonymous adult video shoots.

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Further, he ordered the defendants to take down the women’s sex videos and take steps to get them off other porn sites they don’t control but allowed to post clips, ads or entire films. When victims expressed hesitation, Garcia directed other young women to contact the victims and falsely reassure them that the videos would not be posted online and that none of the victims’ friends, families, colleagues or classmates would find out. Young women were selected as references, because Garcia, Pratt and Matthew Wolfe believed the victims were more likely to believe other young women over Garcia or Pratt. The references were paid a fee for each victim they attempted to recruit, with additional compensation for victims who agreed to film a video.

As soon as women had particular questions about where the porn videos were distributed, Garcia would take the conversations offline. He called and FaceTimed the women, dodging answering any specific questions by instead offering to immediately book plane tickets—even before any women had agreed to participate in the filming. 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.

Moser was aware that Pratt had a grading system for young women, and that she would get paid more if Pratt found the recruited women attractive. Pratt instructed Moser to tell all prospective models the same lie – that the videos would be released solely on DVD in Australia. Moser never actually recruited anyone and therefore never made these promises.

Research shows online danger is now so commonplace it has become normalized for girls, who face unequal – and typically more sexualized – types of threats compared to boys. “It has not changed, it is even worse,” said Sheila Estabillo, SAFE Online Project Manager for Plan International Philippines, who hosts online safety sessions for girls in the country. Among some of the countries where surveys were conducted, the Philippines has legislation specifically targeting the country’s high levels of online child exploitation, and lawmakers in Nepal and Brazil are working on regulations for young people’s digital protection. New Mexico’s Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act (ERFPO Act), also known as the red flag law, can be used to remove firearms from a person found by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others.

He ordered the other girl, who was scared Williams might hurt her as she knew he likely had a gun, to his room where he violently raped her and filmed the assault, the complaint says. The Uber driver didn’t ask the girls about their ages “even though they were noticeably underage,” according to the complaint. (Tribune News Service) — The parents of two girls are suing Uber, saying the ride-share company allowed their 12- and 13-year-old daughters to be trafficked from South Carolina to a man’s North Carolina home, where one girl was raped. “The Parties reached a mutual resolution to resolve the dispute and the terms are confidential,” Brian Holm, the women’s lawyer, told Motherboard. The legal documents also lay out the historic claims of abuse against Girls Do Porn which were behind that company’s senior staff being arrested. Details of the suit are contained in a legal filing first reported by Vice.