‘I Will Cut and Kill You:’ New Lawsuit Against Pornhub Alleges Girls Do Porn Threatened Victims Life

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So the fight to hold Pornhub accountable was in context of a history of already for years being in this fight to stop sex trafficking and child sexual abuse. And what I began to notice as I was looking at the trends with this global crime is that it wasn’t just happening offline. It was being recorded, and it was being distributed and monetized online. While Mickelwait says she has no problem with legal pornography, she has zero tolerance for those who illegally profit from sex trafficking and child rape – and that’s what she found on Pornhub. A former pageant queen is alleging she was raped and forced to film pornography in a new lawsuit against Pornhub and its parent company, MindGeek, which changed its name to Aylo in August. A former pageant queen is alleging she was raped and forced to film pornography in a new lawsuit against Pornhub and its parent company, MindGeek, which changed its name to Aylo in August.

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The website’s co-owner, Matthew Isaac Wolfe, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion in July. Wolfe’s sentencing hearing was postponed to Feb. 1, 2023, court records show. The definition of sex trafficking in the U.S. and internationally makes it clear that coercing a commercial sex act from a vulnerable individual constitutes trafficking.

• Sixty-two additional women are suing Pornhub’s parent company, claiming that the company failed to take down videos of their abuse as part of the sex trafficking operation Girls Do Porn.
• Few other porn sites buy billboards in Times Square or have their year-in-review trend lists published across news websites.
• And they must be held accountable, stopped from profiting off the exploitation of the vulnerable, who are often underage teens.
• I’m not going to shame people for it; hell, I had a hamburger yesterday.

She took on world’s largest porn site for profiting off child abuse. She’s winning.

The videos persisted with repeat reuploads to other tube sites like PornHub, a problem that has historically tormented anyone who’s needed to get their videos removed. In October, 50 victims of GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys won a settlement with MindGeek, owner of the PornHub and tube site empire; the terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Prosecutors say that between 2017 and 2020, Aylo received money that company officials knew or should have known was derived from GirlsDoPorn’s sex trafficking operations. “Unfortunately, GirlsDoPorn had posted the first video of Plaintiff on MindGeek’s network, and the video became wildly successful. MindGeek and GirlsDoPorn generated millions of dollars from Plaintiff’s video,” the complaint states.

• She is the founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund and the founder of the Traffickinghub movement — but she is no ideologue.
• It also requires appointment of an independent monitor for three years, after which the charges will be dismissed.
• Some said they were told they would not be allowed to leave, or their flights home would be canceled, if they did not complete filming.
• “I’m going to kill myself if this stays up here. I was scammed and told this was only going to be on DVDs in another country. Please I’m begging you I’ll pay,” one plaintiff said in a 2016 message to Pornhub.
• The problem is from a legal standpoint, 17 and 364 days, is not allowed.

And if you consider the abuse that is rife within the pornography industry, then really it is better to not increase demand for this material by consuming it. A Canadian X account, @EyeDeco, targeted Serena, who, having discovered videos of herself being abused as an underage teenager on Pornhub, came forward to Mickelwait. This account posted old Instagram images of Serena in an attempt to shame her.

In total, the lawsuit demanded more than $40 million in damages—at least $1 million per plaintiff—as well as the money MindGeek earned from hosting and promoting their videos and legal fees. Simply searching for a term such as \”girls do porn\” on a website is not illegal and generally does not constitute criminal activity. However, simply searching for a term such as \”girls do porn\” would not typically be considered solicitation or promotion of prostitution. Simply searching for a term such as “girls do porn” on a website is not illegal and generally does not constitute criminal activity. However, simply searching for a term such as “girls do porn” would not typically be considered solicitation or promotion of prostitution. Several of Pratt’s business partners and employees have pleaded guilty to sex crime charges.

Sixty-two additional women are suing Pornhub’s parent company, claiming that the company failed to take down videos of their abuse as part of the sex trafficking operation Girls Do Porn. They’re suing the company and its sites for sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and human trafficking. According to an FBI press release, Girls Do Porn owners Michael Pratt, along with chief videographer Matthew Wolfe, administrative assistant Valerie Moser, and male performer Ruben “Andre” Garcia, were charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. 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. The founder of Girls Do Porn, a website that published videos of women who said they were coerced into making sex tapes, was arrested in Spain this week after being on the run for years from sex trafficking and child sex abuse images charges.