GirlsDoPorn经营者Michael Pratt在圣迭戈认罪 承认以欺骗胁迫招募女性拍片
2025年6月5日，位于加利福尼亚州圣迭戈县圣迭戈市的加州南区联邦法院，色情网站 GirlsDoPorn 的经营者 Michael Pratt 当庭认罪，承认以欺骗与胁迫手段招募数百名年轻女性拍摄色情视频。美国联邦检察官办公室加州南区分局当日公布了认罪内容。
Pratt 现年42岁，2019年10月在加州南区被控性贩运罪。他在2019年年中变卖资产、逃离美国，其后被列入联邦调查局十大通缉逃犯名单，以国际逃犯身份躲藏三年多，2022年12月在西班牙被捕，2024年3月被引渡到 San Diego。
在认罪协议中，Pratt 承认替代起诉书的第一项与第二项罪名成立：第一项是2012年至2019年共谋以武力、欺诈与胁迫实施性贩运，第二项是2012年5月对一名受害人的性贩运。两项罪名所依据的法律分别是《美国法典》第18编第1594条与第1591条，后者设有15年强制最低刑期，两项的最高刑期均为终身监禁。
检方说，Pratt 与同案人员以虚假承诺招募女性：声称视频不会上线、不会在美国发布、认识她们的人永远不会知道，签约时用 Begin Modeling、Bubblegum Casting、BLL Media 等名称掩盖网站身份，也不给女性合同副本。拍摄多在 San Diego 的酒店与短租房进行，女性提出中止时，他们以起诉、取消返程机票、把视频上线相威胁。视频其后在 Pornhub 等网站获得数百万次观看，订阅收入达数百万美元。
第二项罪名涉及一名18岁受害人。Pratt 在2012年5月以招募模特的名义与她联系，谎称视频只会给澳大利亚的私人客户看、不会发到网上，又安排一名女性出面担保。受害人飞到 San Diego 拍摄后，视频约九个月后被发到 GirlsDoPorn 网站，她请求删除，Pratt 没有回复、也没有删除。
同案人员此前已被判刑：Ruben Andre Garcia 于2021年6月被判20年，Theodore Gyi 于2022年11月9日被判4年，Matthew Wolfe 于2024年3月20日被判14年；办公室经理 Valorie Moser 定于2025年9月12日量刑。此案由联邦调查局调查。Pratt 的量刑定于2025年9月8日上午9时，由联邦法官 Janis L. Sammartino 主持。
（来源：美国司法部）
GirlsDoPorn Owner Michael Pratt Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking in San Diego
On June 5, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego, San Diego County, California, Michael Pratt, the owner of the pornography website GirlsDoPorn, pleaded guilty in federal court to sex trafficking counts, admitting that he deceived and coerced hundreds of young women into appearing in pornographic videos. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California announced the plea the same day.
Pratt, 42, was charged in October 2019 in the Southern District of California with sex trafficking crimes. He liquidated his assets and fled the United States in mid-2019, was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, and lived as an international fugitive for more than three years until his arrest in Spain in December 2022 and his extradition to San Diego in March 2024.
In his plea agreement, Pratt pleaded guilty to Count One of the superseding indictment, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion from 2012 to 2019, and Count Two, sex trafficking of Victim 1 in May 2012. The counts rest on Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1594 and 1591; the second carries a mandatory minimum of 15 years, and both carry a maximum of life in prison.
Prosecutors said Pratt and his co-defendants recruited women with false promises that the videos would never be posted online, would never be released in the United States, and that no one who knew the women would ever find out. Contracts and statements hid the websites behind names such as Begin Modeling, Bubblegum Casting and BLL Media, and the women were not given copies of the contracts they signed. Most videos were shot at hotels and short-term rental units in the San Diego area, and women who asked to stop were threatened with lawsuits, cancelled flights home and having the videos posted online. The videos were viewed millions of times on sites such as Pornhub and generated millions of dollars in subscription revenue.
Count Two concerned an 18-year-old victim whom Pratt recruited in May 2012 through a modeling advertisement, falsely assuring her the video would only be seen by private clients in Australia and would not be posted on the internet, and using another young woman to reassure her. After she flew to San Diego for the shoot, her video was posted on GirlsDoPorn about nine months later; when she begged Pratt to take it down, he did not reply and did not remove it.
Co-defendants had already been sentenced: Ruben Andre Garcia received 20 years in June 2021, Theodore Gyi received four years on November 9, 2022, and Matthew Wolfe received 14 years on March 20, 2024; office manager Valorie Moser was set for sentencing on September 12, 2025. The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Pratt's sentencing was scheduled for September 8, 2025, at 9 a.m. before U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：位于加州圣迭戈县圣迭戈市的 James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep 美国法院大楼，加州南区联邦法院所在地。Another Believer 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep United States Courthouse in San Diego, San Diego County, California, home of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Photo by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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