“I ended up trying to kill myself many times. I ended up in mental hospitals,” Serena Fleites, the lead plaintiff in Bowe’s 34-plaintiff trafficking suit, said 2021, while testifying at a hearing before the Canadian Parliament, according to Mickelwait’s book. In a nod to the scope of this litigation tsunami, a federal judge in California used the phrase “tens of thousands of children” in a November order granting class certification to one of at least two class-action trafficking suits against Pornhub and MindGeek, which rebranded last year as Aylo. A 15-year-old Florida girl who went missing for a year was found when a Pornhub user reached out to the girl’s mother. “The mother found fifty-eight videos of her child being raped on Pornhub,” Mickelwait writes.
What was it like for you personally to hear all these heartbreaking stories from victims?
The sex, the violence, the torture, and the fear and pain in my eyes and in my screams were 100% real. And as the case against Pornhub has brought to light, those who distributed or websites that hosted my films were also complicit in the crimes perpetrated against me. Laila Mickelwait, the Director of Abolition at Exodus Cry, has taken on Pornhub, the largest porn website in the world. As she tweeted piece after piece of evidence proving Pornhub’s complicity in crimes posted on their site people saw and responded. She started a petition to “Shut Down Pornhub and Hold Its Executives Accountable” and in 2 weeks 300,000 have signed in solidarity with the cause. And the complaint says some were sexually assaulted, and in at least one case raped.
Get Times of San Diego Daily by Email
Garcia and other members of the conspiracy took active steps to ensure the victims did not find out that he and the other members of the conspiracy operated GDP and GDT. Garcia knew that most of the young women they were recruiting would have never agreed to appear in a video if they knew that videos of their explicit sexual activity would be posted on the internet and marketed to their friends and family. On the same day the agreement was announced, attorneys on both sides of a related federal lawsuit in San Diego told a judge they planned to participate in a mediation session outside of court. They asked the judge to suspend all hearings in the case at least until they meet with the mediator, a retired judge, in February.
Girls who are online now
AMAZING LUSTFUL CUTIE baby_and_lina 🤤
ADDICTION TO SEX 👅
🍓 THE RIPEST FRUIT YOU’VE EVER TASTED🍍
🍓 This erotic princess is waiting for you and ready to fulfill any wish 😏
⬇️𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄⬇️
Don’t miss it 👉christie_angel💞
🔞She baby_kris_love needs your cock more than ever🔞
This cutie loves to play with her tight holes.
She baby_kris_love will take any pose to make your balls empty🍆♨️💦
⬇️𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄⬇️
SWEET GIRL mary_angel
WITH GORGEOUS CURVES🍓
🎀She is a master of deep blowjob💦
😈Satisfy her unquenchable hunger as she longs to empty your cock and make you cum non-stop🍌👅
Don’t resist temptation, embrace it!
⬇️𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄⬇️
💖ONLY TODAY💖 sinful_rosa
Fiery beauty sinful_rosa🔥
Loves stretching her tight pussy with her fingers and sucking dick with juicy lips🥵🥵🥵
Show how her excited clitoris pulsates💦
Hurry up and text her, she’s always online for you!😘
⬇️𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄⬇️
sweete_girl 🔥𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘🔥 sweete_girl
𝐇𝐄𝐑 TINY 𝐏𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐘 𝐒𝐎 𝐖𝐄𝐓 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖💦
𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐄𝐄 𝐈𝐓?🥵
@victoria 𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘😈
⬇️𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄⬇️
They can play innocent, but then why does Pornhub allow video titles to be posted including the phrases “teen slapped,” and “innocent teen abused,” or “scared teen cries” without regulation or investigation? With titles like those floating around their site, MindGeek isn’t just ignorant or negligent—they’re accomplices. According to the (British) Internet Watch Foundation, there are over 100 cases of children being sexually abused on Pornhub. The vast majority of people who received the warning message and chatbot did so only once, the report says. Around 1.7 million people saw a warning before leaving Pornhub or making other searches related to legal material. They typically remained on the site and looked for other stuff,” Findlater says.
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. Michael Pratt, who allegedly manipulated hundreds of young women into making sex tapes and then lied about not distributing them, was included on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list this year. Brendon struggled with an addiction to porn for 12 years of his life and experienced many of its damaging effects first-hand, especially in his marriage. This led him to make an unwavering decision to begin the journey of finally get free from pornography.
Have a government site that verifies your ID and just produces some kind of cryptographic token that porn sites can verify but reveals nothing other than the fact that you are over 18. Proof-of-age tokens that aren’t tied to my ID have the downside that they are transferable. At that time, Pornhub was one of the most popular websites in the world, attracting billions of visits each month. Content moderators review each video, but Kristoff spoke to a former MindGeek employee who said the goal is to “let as much content as possible go through”. Pornhub does not reveal how many moderators it has, but one told Kristoff there are around 80 working across MindGeek’s titles. Several of the women Kristoff speak to detail self-harm, addiction issues, and suicide attempts in response, with one woman saying that “Pornhub became my trafficker”.
- One of the challenges to stopping trafficking is a culture of corruption among law enforcement and people in authority.
- The moderator describes the job as “soul-destroying”, as they have to assess whether the person in the video is of age, or whether acts of torture, rape, or non-consensual videos (ie. spy-cams) are real or role-play.
- They also don’t bother to verify simple, legal details like age, if the sex and filming was consensual, or if the “performers” agreed to public exposure.
- Six defendants are currently charged, including GirlsDoPorn owner Michael James Pratt, who remains at large.
- I have learned to look people in the eye again, but it took years and distance from that time.
The company said GirlsDoPorn provided written consent forms signed by the women, but Aylo was unaware the forms were obtained through fraud and coercion. Prior to the criminal prosecution, the website and its operators were sued by 22 women featured in its videos, and a San Diego judge awarded the women nearly $13 million at the end of a civil trial. According to his plea agreement, Wiederhold appeared as the male actor in 71 GirlsDoPorn videos.