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What was the GirlsDoPorn case?

They also allegedly promoted the video by referring to Althaus as “Miss Teen Colorado” in the video. Besides Pornhub, the GirlsDoPorn videos were also hosted on other MindGeek properties referred to as «Tubesites» in the lawsuit. Jane Doe’s video remained «on MindGeek’s Tubesites until after GirlsDoPorn’s principals were arrested in October 2019 when MindGeek finally decided to take action,» the complaint said.

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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. Prosecution of minors under child pornography laws, the American Academy of Pediatrics warned in 2019, “has the potential to have dire legal ramifications for teens,” as sexting among young people—and prosecution of them under child pornography laws—continues to rise.

• Dozens of women were slapped and choked in the process of shooting their scene and would report vaginal bleeding afterward.
• What had originally been promised as 30-minutes would often turn into a several hour shoot, during which time the male performer – oftentimes Andre Garcia – treated the women roughly.
• Pornhub was hit with a $40 million lawsuit from sex-trafficking victims the day after it said it had started deleting millions of videos from its platform, Vice reported.
• A PORN website producer has been sentenced to 20 years for conspiracy and sex trafficking.
• 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.

Eventually, she found one, which provided solid pay for just a few hours’ work. For a girl that didn’t have many resources to rely on, it seemed like a dream-come-true. But like most things in the world, the reality was more disappointing than the glossy images presented online. The 22 plaintiffs sought compensatory and punitive damages, alleged intentional misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, misappropriation of name and likeness, and deceptive business practices, among other civil grounds. Six of the women whose videos were posted online spoke at Gyi’s sentencing, and each said Gyi assured them their videos would not be seen on the internet, but soon discovered they had been lied to. The website and its operators were also sued by 22 women featured in its videos, and a San Diego judge awarded the women nearly $13 million at the end of a civil trial.

• Most women benefit from a treatment approach aimed at the many causes behind this condition.
• At just 22 years old, she was lured into traveling to California for what she thought was an above-board modeling job.
• Her third takedown request came in May 2017 «after MindGeek continued to publish her video on PornHub.com,» the complaint said.
• The women claim that the footage was then uploaded to the tube site Pornhub, and that they were subject to doxxing and harassment as a result.
• A law enforcement source told BI last week that an announcement will be made soon.
• A look into the finances of GirlsDoPorn showed that they had once been owned by a parent company called GT Group Ltd., which was a corporation listed in the Panama Papers as a tax haven for several illicit organizations.

Forty Jane Does who say they were victims of GirlsDoPorn sued Pornhub yesterday for at least $2 million each, alleging that Pornhub hosted videos despite knowing that «GirlsDoPorn was a sex trafficking venture.» Last year, Alexander Brian Foster pleaded guilty to creating a retaliation video meant to harass the women and their lawyers who initially sued GirlsDoPorn and Pratt. As the owner and operator of the now-defunct adult film website GirlsDoPorn, Pratt coerced multiple women, and at least one underage girl, into sexual activities they had not signed up for. According to public court filings, Pratt and his co-defendants used force, fraud, and coercion to recruit hundreds of young adult women – most in their late teens – and at least one minor victim, to appear in GirlsDoPorn videos. According to his plea agreement, Wiederhold appeared as the male actor in 71 GirlsDoPorn videos. He also falsely assured at least two women that their videos wouldn’t be posted online after knowing other women’s videos had already been uploaded to the Internet, the plea agreement states.

Because this expansive criminal case has not yet been settled, I’m sure that part of the story will be continued in a future episode. But whatever happens in regards to this unfolding criminal case is undoubtedly going to become a precedent moving forward for the entire porn industry, which was understandably shocked in the aftermath of this criminal complaint… «The FBI is still in the process of identifying all the women recruited, filmed, coerced and defrauded by this conspiracy, as well as the proceeds made from these activities.» Despite providing contestants with a decent networking platform – and resources to stay in shape while earning relatively useless trinkets – the pageants that Megan participated in didn’t provide anything in the form of payment. Hence, her – being a young woman with little in the way of a support structure – taking part in an adult video to support herself through college.