Another Jane Doe Recounts Abuse At Hands Of GirlsDoPorn

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They were then contacted by Garcia, who revealed applicants were actually being recruited to film a 30-minute porn video that they would be paid several thousand dollars to film. Jane Doe 7 ended up filming a porn video under duress in a hotel room where furniture blocked the door, preventing her from leaving. The GirlsDoPorn verdict has exposed the coercive tactics used by the porn industry to trick desperate women into participating in something they do not really want to do. What’s important to know, though, is that GDP is not unique. Often, the promised pay was exaggerated — and the company never had any intention to pay the victims the promised amount. The trial featured compelling testimony from each of the unidentified plaintiffs about the ways the release of the videos had derailed their lives.

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Owners Michael James Pratt and Matthew Isaac Wolfe, along with two employees, have been charged in a US federal court with sex-trafficking crimes. Victims had repeatedly contacted the company to complain and tell them about the problems, it says. Pornhub and other MindGeek sites removed the Girls Do Porn channel as soon as the charges were made – but the complaint alleges that “at this point, there was no longer a company left for MindGeek to partner with”. The victims allege that Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek knew of the allegations against the company, but continued a partnership anyway.

• Jane Doe 7 dropped out of school, and is too afraid to leave her house most days.
• Hopefully today’s sentence will offer them a sense of justice.” Grossman praised prosecutors Joseph Green, Alexandra Foster and Sabrina Feve; FBI Special Agents; and the U.S.
• 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.
• Teddy Gyi, the videographer, pleaded guilty to lying to her and many other women about how the videos would be distributed.
• Some of the models who started with a GirlsDoPorn video have actually gone on to become bona fide adult performers.
• On Oct. 10, the operators of popular pornography website Girls Do Porn were charged with trafficking and conspiracy in a federal criminal complaint.

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“We passed each other, we made eye contact. If I saw her again I would not forget her face. She looked exactly as I did, coming in—pretty girl, very innocent looking. And I wanted to scream at her. I wanted to scream, ‘Run for your life, don’t go in there.’ But I didn’t get to.” Garcia and Gyi rushed Jane through the paperwork, and she said they repeatedly reassured her that nothing shot there that day would make it back to her friends and family. It would all go to private “collectors,” they said, in adult DVD stores in New Zealand and Australia. She skimmed the contracts while they grew more impatient, telling her she’d wasted enough of their time already. He and the cameraman assured her that the tapes would never be traced back to her.

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Now, she’s afraid to get any public acknowledgement or reach for career accomplishments that would bring too much attention to her name. Evidence from the civil trial showed that the Girls Do Porn operators intentionally exposed identifying details about the women. Some of this happened on a site called PornWikiLeaks, which the Girls Do Porn operators owned from November 2015 to June 2016.

For its first five years, GirlsDoPorn quietly, almost under the radar, amassed a loyal cult following of dedicated fans and hobbyists — i.e., collectors — who prized Pratt’s take on “Hot local girl who shouldn’t do porn does porn.” Pratt is described in court filings as “the sole owner” of GirlsDoPorn.com. He is also said to have transferred ownership of the website to “various entities,” which he always controls, and is also one of only two people to have the admin password. The new information uncovered by the secretive FBI investigation adds shocking details that complicate mainstream coverage of this as a cliché tale of innocent girls from the heartland getting duped by sinister smut-peddlers.

So we look for ways that we can uplift each other and just having that support system that so many trauma victims don’t get to have. I’ve had really incredible friendships; we’re always worried about someone spiraling and “Hey, how can we reach out? ” Uh, I had a phone call with a few of them last night because of the Wolfe plea deal. And, and we’re all like, “Oh goodness, the, the NBC article and the VICE article, like this is a lot, this is a lot of publicity.

Jane Doe 18 also believed she was arriving for a photoshoot. Garcia then forced her to have sex, which caused her to bleed. When she tried to run out of the room, Garcia blocked the door and shoved her towards the bed. Jane Doe 7 dropped out of school, and is too afraid to leave her house most days.

The trial, before Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright, is now in its fifth week, with no end in sight. After the filming, Garcia offered to drive her to her car. But when she accepted the ride, she said Garcia drove past the car and parked in a nearby lot. She said attempted to exit the vehicle, but couldn’t, and Garcia climbed on top of her, physically preventing her from exiting. According to the indictment, Garcia removed the woman’s underwear and sexually assaulted her.

Hotel room doors were at times blocked by camera and recording equipment, and the victims felt powerless and unable to leave. Garcia and other members of the conspiracy took active steps to ensure the victims did not find out that he and the other members of the conspiracy operated GDP and GDT. Garcia knew that most of the young women they were recruiting would have never agreed to appear in a video if they knew that videos of their explicit sexual activity would be posted on the internet and marketed to their friends and family. She told police that after filming concluded on a subsequent photo and video shoot, Garcia pestered her with invasive questions. She said Garcia asked her to be his girlfriend, then eventually became irate and forcibly pushed her down onto a bed and sexually assaulted her. Days later, Garcia showed up at her boyfriend’s house and refused to leave until she threatened to call the police.