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The women won a total of $9.45 million in compensatory damages, $3.3 million in punitive damages, and copyrights to their videos. Pratt has fled the country and has been charged with additional counts of producing child pornography and child sex trafficking for coercing a 16-year-old into producing a video despite full knowledge of her age. The civil case was interrupted at one point when Pratt, Wolfe, Garcia, company administrative assistant Valerie Moser and alleged accomplice Amberlyn Nored were charged in federal court with sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion. Pratt, a New Zealand resident who disappeared after being indicted, also is charged with producing child pornography in 2012 involving a girl who was then 16.

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One defendant alleged that she’d asked not to go through with the shoot at all, but the company threatened to withhold her hotel reservation and plane ticket home, knowing she couldn’t afford to pay for them herself. Registrants have recently reported receiving calls from a person claiming to be with law enforcement. The caller requests cash or other form of payment, and suggests the victim will face arrest for not complying with registration requirements. Please be advised that no law enforcement or government agency will ever request such payment, nor make threats of arrest by phone. Anyone receiving such a call should not make any payment or provide any information to the caller.

• During the civil trial, some of the women testified that once they arrived in San Diego, the defendants plied them with alcohol or marijuana and rushed them into signing away their rights over their own images.
• Very few photos of him exist on the internet, but the ones that do will be posted on the podcast website as well as our social media accounts.
• Pratt’s attorney didn’t immediately respond to USA TODAY’s message for comment on Wednesday.
• When the victims arrived in San Diego for their shoots, they were prevented from reading their contracts and coerced into participating through lies, deception, and intimidation.

Michael Pratt, the main culprit of the trafficking scheme, fled the country and is a wanted fugitive. And Pornhub executives who are accused of distributing and profiting from the victims’ trauma have yet to face civil or criminal consequences. As they faced Garcia at the sentencing last week, all of the women recalled the deep trauma they faced as a result of his actions. Half of them said the widespread proliferation of their abuse videos convinced them death was a better option than living in perpetual pain and humiliation. The women faced a dark reality – the knowledge that for the rest of their lives, people would use the crime scene footage of their abuse for both pleasure and profit.

In one case, he had told the victim that he needed to take her for a “test drive” before shooting a video the following day, and in another, he told her to “stop being a whiny little bitch” when she asked to take a break because of the pain she was in. Another woman altogether claimed that she was forced into performing oral sex on Garcia during their shoot, and afterward, was driven by Garcia to an isolated location where he had forcibly raped her in the backseat of the vehicle. Multiple women also claimed that Garcia had given them STDs, which he had failed to inform them about. Theodore “Teddy” Gyi had been a cameraman and interviewer, who had been hired by Matthew Wolfe in the mid-2010s to take over his job filming for the company. From that point moving forward, Gyi had served as the main videographer for the website and had been the only non-executive to know the inner workings of the company – as well as the only other person other than the three named defendants to be in the hotel rooms during the filming of the videos.