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Initially Wolfe worked in the office maintaining the computer servers, handling payroll and taking care of other routine office tasks, but he eventually began filming videos and taking a more hands-on role within the company. The plaintiffs said they endured harassment and ostracizing as the result of their videos being shared online, and all of them had suicidal thoughts as a result. “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. This same victim said they sent two more messages and the video was not taken off MindGeek’s sites until after October 2019, the lawsuit added. Garcia told Doe 10 that she’d be paid $5,000 to shoot an hour’s worth of hardcore, which would be a single scene featuring five sex positions, and which was to be shot at an upscale San Diego hotel where she would be set up with a room for the night. He also said that the footage would not be seen in the U.S., and that in this case, it would be sold privately to an “Australian collector.”

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• According to an article on the Courthouse News website, Jane Doe 10 testified on Monday that when she was 22 years old, a friend had put her in contact with someone using the name “Jonathan,” who turned out to be Garcia.
• The GirlsDoPorn website featured mostly college-aged women, but in 2010 Wiederhold began preparing for the launch of a similar “mom” porn site that featured women over 30 years of age.
• A generational gap in understanding online platforms and digital literacy is one reason the young women and girls surveyed and interviewed showed little trust in adults and existing mechanisms to root out abusers and perpetrators.

We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our sites.©2024 GIZMODO USA LLC. Read our exclusive interviews with one Jane Doe who told us what it was like to be trafficked by GirlsDoPorn and how it has affected her life for years afterward. “The attitude these defendants expressed when the women complained [and] the scheme to shut them up was despicable.”

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“All Uber Driver #2 said was something along the lines of, ‘Some guy named Fayvion paid for (the ride),’” the complaint says. The Uber driver who responded to Williams’ request for a ride allowed the girls to get in the car and didn’t ask for their ages, the complaint says. Following the rape, Williams ordered another Uber ride to drive the girls back to South Carolina, according to the complaint. “Uber is actively participating in and profiting from the trafficking of minors and doesn’t care who it hurts along the way,” Cowan said.

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It remains to be seen whether MindGeek will be held responsible for all of the damage their business practices has inflicted on these exploited women. Judge Enright awarded the 22 women $9.48m in compensatory damages and $3.3m in punitive damages. On the day of the shoot, models were often given alcohol and cannabis before being asked to sign an eight-page contract. Due to the one-time-only amateur paradigm, GirlsDoPorn required a constant stream of new models to keep the content on the website fresh. “Garcia and Pratt bought me a birthday cake to include in the filming process so he could let everyone know that I had just turned 18,” she said.

The lawsuit accuses Uber of not implementing safety measures, including enhanced background checks and mandatory dashboard cameras. When Williams propositioned the girls to perform sex acts, the 13-year-old girl refused, according to the complaint. Pornhub’s purge of millions of videos, presumably including many of the videos in which the plaintiffs appeared, was announced on December 14. She sent a second request that month asking MindGeek to remove the video from Tube8.com, another MindGeek property, the lawsuit said. Her third takedown request came in May 2017 “after MindGeek continued to publish her video on PornHub.com,” the complaint said. The charges and allegations contained in an indictment or complaint are merely accusations, and the defendants are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.

The websites generated millions of dollars in revenue and the videos were viewed millions of times. Most of the videos created as a part of the conspiracy were shot at hotels or short-term rental units in the San Diego area. If one of the victims agreed to act in the pornographic video, Garcia and his co-conspirators promptly booked flights to San Diego within a day or two to limit the chances that the victim would change her mind.

They were also loath to call for help, since they’d have to admit why they’d traveled to San Diego in the first place. As a result, several women felt they had little choice but to complete the shoot. The men waited until minutes before the scheduled start of shooting to present women with lengthy contracts. They were then pressured to skim the documents quickly and sign them so that the shooting could get under way. Several of those involved with Girls Do Porn have since been convicted, including Ruben Andre Garcia, who worked as a recruiter, producer, and actor for Girls Do Porn, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in November, external. That’s precisely why GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt, videographer Matthew Wolfe, and actor Andre Garcia created a bait-and-switch scheme to get the women to appear in their videos.