The Guy Behind the GirlsDoPorn Site Is Now on the FBI’s Most Wanted List

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Porn actor and producer Ruben Andre Garcia was previously sentenced to 20 years in prison, and two others have pleaded guilty and await sentencing next year. Further, Pratt instructed Moser not to tell the women the truth about their video’s distribution as she drove the young women to and from the video shoots. Later, Pratt told Moser to tell the women that she was bound by a non-disclosure agreement and could not discuss it. Weeks after they returned home, the videos were released in full on Pratt’s subscription site, and as clips on PornHub and other popular free porn platforms. “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.

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• Magistrate Linda Lopez to Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud and Coercion.
• While your teen may trust the person on the other end of the conversation, it’s important that they understand the risks of sexting.
• The ruling is part of a restitution order against one of the leaders, performer Ruben Andre Garcia, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this year after pleading guilty to sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion.
• These beliefs, in addition to teasing and bullying, perpetuate girls’ feelings of shame and isolation, sometimes even leading them to drop out of school.

It was also believed that Andre Garcia might have been a previously-unknown individual named “Jonathan,” who the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) had been attempting to identify and locate for over a year. This individual had been “attempting to groom minors for sex trafficking,” which fit in with the DOJ’s filing. Garcia had reportedly been recruiting women for filming purposes up until his arrest in October of 2019.

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• Taken together, these findings show that stressful experiences, anxiety, and depression are strongly related to pornography consumption.
• In several cases, the women filmed for GirlsDoPorn would be propositioned outside of the video shoot.
• But it does not pay her for rights, even though it is written in her first-person voice, Khalifa said.
• Afterwards, the two Bass men get into a fight on the roof which ends with Bart hanging off the side begging Chuck to save him.
• Michael James Pratt disappeared in the summer of 2019, just before he was indicted on federal conspiracy and sex trafficking charges stemming from what prosecutors said was a decade-long scheme to con hundreds of teens and young women into appearing in adult videos for the website he owned.
• The opening of the cervix is very small (no wider than a straw), which is why a tampon can never get lost inside a girl’s body.

There is no dispute Deyun Shi bludgeoned his teenage relatives in 2016, but his attorneys argue during his trial that he was suffering from mental illness. I jumped out of my seat,” said one victim about learning of Pratt’s presence in the courthouse Tuesday. It’s unknown when, exactly, Pratt fled the country, but lawyers for the numerous Jane Does allege that during the civil trial last year (2019), Pratt visited South America before he was scheduled to provide testimony. After this mysterious vacation, he flew from Tijuana, Mexico to New Zealand, and his trail has gone cold ever since. In that regard, the case continues to remain unsolved, because this is a problem that will never truly go away for the women that had to live through it.

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. But the lawsuit argues that the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) enacted in 2018 would override a Section 230 defense. Pornhub’s purge of millions of videos, presumably including many of the videos in which the plaintiffs appeared, was announced on December 14. The lawsuit was filed against Pornhub and Pornhub owner MindGeek in US District Court for the Southern District of California. The complaint asks for “compensatory damages in an amount that exceeds one million dollars for each plaintiff,” plus another $1 million or more, each, in punitive damages.

You can ask them questions such as, “Has anything happened online that made you upset? Research shows that instead of simply creating rules without your child’s input, having open discussions with them on how to safely navigate the internet may be protective against cyberbullying. With a greater focus on peer relationships and increased smartphone ownership comes increased opportunities for bullying and exclusionary behaviors like ostracism or shunning.

Similarly, addiction studies have also reported that cues explicitly paired with the absence of a drug reward can have marked inhibitory effects on dopamine release (Leyton and Vezina, 2014). Consistent with a negative prediction error, Banca et al. reported a decrease in ventral striatal activity in response to the omission of an expected sexual image (following a conditioned cue) (Banca et al., 2016). Banca et al. also found that, compared with healthy controls, compulsive Internet pornography users had enhanced preference for conditioned cues (abstract patterns) related to sexual images (Banca et al., 2016). This finding suggests that Internet pornography users can become “sensitized to cues” that are unrelated to sexual content and produce associations that can be extremely challenging to extinguish (Banca et al., 2016). These impairments of sexual arousal and erectile difficulties in intimate relationships but not with sexually explicit materials suggest that the enhanced desire scores were specific to the explicit cues and not generalized heightened sexual desire (Voon et al., 2014, p 5).

The data provided by Pornhub, the IWF, and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation wasn’t always complete, and there weren’t any figures from before the warnings were introduced to compare the results against. However, Scanlan says the results show the method could be one part of broader education and deterrence efforts against people finding CSAM online. “If someone’s doing that sort out of curiosity, you want to nudge them away from it before they get involved in it, because we can’t arrest our way out of the problem,” Scanlan says. They’ve just been so traumatized with everything they’ve gone through with having to provide services to multiple buyers a day.