Porn website owner, once one of FBI's most wanted fugitives, pleads guilty to sex trafficking
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Porn website owner Michael Pratt, the mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking ring and who was placed on the FBI's notorious "10 Most Wanted Fugatives" list, pleaded guilty Thursday to multiple counts of sex trafficking.
Pratt, who also co-owned GirlsDoToys, conspired with his co-defendants to use force, fraud and coercion to recruit hundreds of young women, most in their late teens, to appear in GirlsDoPorn videos from 2012 to 2019, federal prosecutors in southern California said. Those videos, which were also posted on other free pornography sites, racked up millions of views and generated millions of dollars in revenue for Pratt.
In court, Pratt admitted that to recruit young girls to appear in the videos, he told prospective models that their sex videos would never be posted online, would never be released in the U.S. and no one who knew the women would find out about them.
