"A San Diego federal judge has ordered Michael James Pratt, the imprisoned owner of the now-defunct San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn, to pay $75.6 million in restitution to more than 100 women whom Pratt and his co-conspirators tricked and coerced into appearing in pornographic videos as part of a yearslong trafficking scheme. Pratt, 43, was sentenced in September to 27 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and one count of conspiracy to commit the same crime."
"Pratt admitted in his plea agreement that he and those who worked for him recruited young women online from across the country as models. When they arrived in San Diego, the women were pressured to have sex on camera. They were told the videos would go to private DVD collections overseas, but instead they were widely disseminated on the GirlsDoPorn network of sites and free pornography sites."
"Pratt admitted that between 2012 and 2019, he conspired to traffic 15 victims, though authorities have said that's a tiny fraction of the actual victims of the conspiracy. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sasha Foster said last year that 505 women had shot GirlsDoPorn videos. She said that while not all were victims, the great bulk of the women interviewed by FBI agents said they'd been deceived by Pratt and did not know their videos would be plastered all over the internet."
A federal judge ordered Michael James Pratt to pay $75.6 million in restitution to more than 100 women victimized by the GirlsDoPorn trafficking scheme. Pratt was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and related conspiracy charges. Pratt and associates recruited young women online, pressured them to have sex on camera, and falsely claimed the videos would be for private DVD collections overseas. The videos were widely disseminated across GirlsDoPorn sites and free porn platforms. Authorities say hundreds more women were affected; restitution was ordered for 106 victims.
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