Porn Victims Hit Pornhub With Massive Lawsuit: Im Going To Kill Myself If This Stays Up

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However, the videos were later distributed publicly via sites including Pornhub according to US Attorneys. Last year, The New York Times exposed Pornhub as a platform for monetized rape, child trafficking sexual abuse, and other forms of nonconsensual image-based abuse. Garcia’s sentencing is a groundbreaking moment in the fight against sex trafficking, but it’s not a sufficient end to the story. His victims have tasted justice, but they are not done yet with retribution. Fifty GirlsDoPorn victims are now suing Pornhub, demanding more than $100 million in damages for their pain and suffering.

• A judge awarded the women nearly $13 million at the conclusion of a trial.
• SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of 50 women who sued Pornhub’s parent company for hosting videos produced by former San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com, the owners and operators of which were charged by federal prosecutors with sex trafficking.
• GirlsDoPorn filmed more than 100 women, many who had their lives destroyed by Garcia and his cohorts.
• The complaint further alleges that Pratt took Althaus’ cellphone during the filming and only gave it back to her afterward.
• The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to his arrest.
• Each of the 4.4 million times someone has typed in words or phrases linked to abuse, a warning message has blocked the page, saying that kind of content is illegal.

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• In fact, the average age for an American child to have viewed porn for the first time is 13.
• It appeared alongside the warning messages a total of 2.8 million times.
• The lawsuit alleges that “as early as 2009, and definitely by fall 2016, MindGeek knew GirlsDoPorn was trafficking its victims by using fraud, coercion, and intimidation as part of its customary business practices to get the women to film the videos.”
• Even after severing its partnership with GirlsDoPorn, MindGeek continues to profit from Plaintiffs’ videos to this day.
• In addition, more than two million people have signed a petition to shut down Pornhub for hosting child sex-trafficking videos, as part of a campaign launched in February by, unknown to many of its signees, a conservative religious group with anti-LGBTIQ and anti-sex work views.

The 40 women – of all whom are referred to by the pseudonym Jane Doe and a number – are demanding a jury trial and seeking more than $1m (£739,000) each. 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. Before some of the video shoots, victims were offered alcohol or marijuana. Victims who consumed alcohol or smoked marijuana were directed to make a recorded statement saying that they were not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol, even though they had just smoked marijuana or drank alcohol.

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Additionally, Wolfe admitted that Pratt also operated a website called Pornwikileaks.com with identifying information and social media accounts for some women being filmed. The website was dedicated to revealing the true identities of the women appearing in those sex videos, “causing the victims to be subjected to severe harassment,” the DOJ said in a press release last year. Even when they can get crime scene videos down, they face a continual game of whack-a-mole as the abuse is uploaded again and again online. Academic studies have cited that victims of the nonconsensual distribution of sexual images have a very high suicide risk, with almost half of the victims contemplating suicide.

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The two sides settled the suit about a year later on terms that both sides agreed not to disclose. The new lawsuit was filed by 62 new women represented by the same attorneys. The site allows users to upload their own content, and therein lies the HUGE, maybe criminal problem… MindGeek doesn’t regulate the types of videos being uploaded and often allows content that is illegal or stolen. We’re still waiting for criminal prosecution, not only for the company, but for its individual owners.

Pornhub, launched in 2007 and based in Montreal, lets users upload amateur and professional porn videos in much the same way users upload to YouTube. It’s estimated that human trafficking earns roughly $150 Billion a year for traffickers, of which about $100 billion comes from commercial sexual exploitation. It’s a massive criminal industry that enslaves somewhere between million people worldwide. Exodus Cry is committed to abolishing sex trafficking and breaking the cycle of commercial sexual exploitation while assisting and empowering its victims.