SAN DIEGO - The owner of defunct website GirlsDoPorn.com has been extradited to San Diego and made his first federal court appearance on sex trafficking charges Tuesday, the same day his former business partner was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Wolfe was directly involved in lying to the victims about the online nature of the videos and directed other GirlsDoPorn employees to do the same. His duties included overseeing the company's finances, marketing and personally filming over 100 of GirlsDoPorn's videos, a prosecutor said in court.
One woman said she's faced consistent harassment since her video was posted nine years ago, leading her to move and change her name. The woman said she's now en route to graduate from college, but said that though"I'm proud to be the first in my family to go to college, when I graduate, it's not going to be my name that's called."
Defense attorney Jeremy Warren argued in court that GirlsDoPorn's modus operandi of deceiving women was"entirely Pratt's scheme" and that his client's role in the website's operation was a lesser role, largely revolving around his expertise in computers.