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On Reddit, videos outing models with their real names proliferated. Someone emailed it to her boss, who then couldn’t look her in the eyes, she said. The company was understanding and supportive, but it changed her life at work.

• Wolfe and Garcia were arrested in October; Pratt is a fugitive who is believed to have fled the country.
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• Uh, during my entire 20 months of nursing school every month, I, I had to like go to the administration and say like, “Hey, I might have to go testify during this FBI trial.
• But soon after the incident, she was harassed at work—Jane Doe 7’s video had been posted online.

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The women were all victims of Girls Do Porn, whose owners have been charged with offences by US officials. “It just kills me that people are still getting hurt because of me, or because this happened to me. Because these disgusting people took advantage of me—now they’re taking advantage of my success,” she said. “It’s really hard to see the difference of how people think and how they look at you. And your own mind is your worst enemy because you think of the worst.” According to YouTube’s transparency report, in the last quarter of 2020, the platform removed 65,000 channels, 77,000 videos, and 136 million comments for harassment and cyberbullying, “the vast majority of which were first detected through automated flagging,” the spokesperson said. She stepped down from positions of community leadership, and walked from class to class with her head down. Her friends, her “cheerleaders,” she said, encouraged her to stand up against the public shame and scrutiny, and slowly, over the course of several months, her deep shame morphed into something else.

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Pornhub has responded to the controversy by banning uploads from unidentified users and purging millions of user-uploaded videos. Despite this knowledge, MindGeek continued to partner with GirlsDoPorn, never bothering to investigate or question its business partner regarding the mounting evidence of sex trafficking that MindGeek received. MindGeek continued its partnership with GirlsDoPorn until October 2019 when the Department of Justice shut down GirlsDoPorn by arresting and indicting its principals. At this point, there was no longer a company left for MindGeek to partner with. Girls Do Porn allegedly operated by advertising modelling jobs.

• For an in-depth look at the GirlsDoPorn case up until the filing of the criminal charges, click here.The defense attempted to put on hold the civil trial until the criminal trial was decided, but the San Diego judge presiding over it refused their request.
• She tried to change her appearance drastically to avoid being recognized.
• A lawsuit was filed this week on behalf of 61 women against Pornhub’s parent company for allegedly hosting videos produced by former San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com, the owners and operators of which were charged by federal prosecutors with sex trafficking.

Consider Before Consuming is brought to you by Fight the New Drug, a non-religious, non-legislative nonprofit dedicated to educating individuals on the harms of pornography using only science, facts, and personal accounts. Women cited in the lawsuit were referred to by the pseudonym Jane Doe and a number. They were each seeking more than $1m (£739,000) in damages and had demanded a jury trial. “We are committed to remaining at the forefront of internet safety, and taking every measure to prevent bad actors from posting illegal content online.” Brewer says he also found “a phone list with victims’ names and Jane Doe numbers” (plaintiffs were referred to as “Jane Doe 1,” “Jane Doe 2,” etc. during the trial) that “memorialized attempts to get information from them over the telephone by posing as a journalist.” One of the allegations of the women against GirlsDoPorn is that the site’s proprietors deliberately leaked their real names in order to drum up interest in their videos.

Victims were also often paid significantly less than originally promised with Garcia and others would citing a tattoo, a mole, or some other perceived “imperfection” to pay the victim less. 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.

In November 2015, an anonymous woman filed a police report in Newport Beach, California, after her video was posted on Girls Do Porn. A copy of the report obtained by The Appeal shows that she told police that she was raped by Garcia after filming her video. She said she had met Garcia that September after responding to a Craigslist ad for a modeling job that linked to a website called Begin Modeling. It wasn’t until she arrived at the shoot that she learned she would be filming porn. The FBI is still searching for GirlsDoPorn creator Michael Pratt, who faces criminal sex-trafficking and child-porn charges.