"Forty women, all exploited by Pratt and his accomplices, testified for roughly five hours Monday before his sentencing. According to federal prosecutors, the victims detailed how they were lured to San Diego hotel rooms with promises of well-paid modeling gigs but were instead coerced and forced to perform sex acts in front of cameras. One woman testified that when she was a 21-year-old law student, she was forced to perform in a video that later appeared on the GirlsDoPorn website."
""I am not your victim. I'm your reckoning. ... I am the girl who took you down," the woman said in court, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. "Look around! We are an army of survivors sharing our truth and we have won." Another victim was 19 years old at the time she was forced to appear in one of the videos. She worked as a dance teacher for children but was later fired after the video was posted online. "You are evil. You are a predator. You are a rapist," the woman said in court. "This is who you are. Your ego was too big to believe you'd ever get caught, but karma comes around. It is your turn now to suffer.""
Michael James Pratt, 42, operated the GirlsDoPorn website and pleaded guilty to conspiracy and committing sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion. A federal judge in San Diego sentenced Pratt to 27 years in prison following his guilty plea. Forty women testified about being lured with promises of well-paid modeling, then coerced and forced to perform sex acts on camera in San Diego hotel rooms with exits blocked. Victims included a 21-year-old law student and a 19-year-old former children's dance teacher who lost her job after videos were posted. Victims described emotional and career harms and denounced Pratt in court.
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