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The sick mastermind behind the twisted website GirlsDoPorn was sentenced to nearly 30 years in federal prison after dozens of young women delivered gut-wrenching statements, begging the judge to throw the book at the pervert.

Michael James Pratt, 42, received 27 years in prison from a San Diego judge Tuesday — five years longer than prosecutors recommended and almost three years over the federal guidelines.

The sentence came after 38 women he tricked and even forced into shooting porn videos in California hotel rooms — which Pratt then posted online without their consent — delivered grueling and fiery testimony about how their lives were ruined.


  Michael James Pratt, 42, wound up on the FBI’s most-wanted list for his sickening GirlsDoPorn crimes. FBI Michael James Pratt, 42, wound up on the FBI’s most-wanted list for his sickening GirlsDoPorn crimes. FBI

“The life I was meant to have died in that hotel room,” one victim said — while others had no sympathy for the sex predator who raked in millions of dollars from their videos.

“I ask the court to show no mercy,” one woman told the judge, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.

“We aren’t here for forgiveness,” another said. “We’re here for justice.”

“I won,” a third told Pratt directly. “I’m not your victim, I’m your reckoning.”

“This time it’s you who cannot leave,” another said.


  Pratt was arrested in 2022 in Spain, where he’d been hiding out after fleeing the United States in 2019. PolicÃa Nacional/Twitter Pratt was arrested in 2022 in Spain, where he’d been hiding out after fleeing the United States in 2019. PolicÃa Nacional/Twitter

Pratt pleaded guilty to sex trafficking, fraud or coercion and other charges in June, three years after he was arrested and extradited from Spain in 2022. The New Zealand native had been hiding out there since 2019, and spent time on the FBI’s Most Wanted List while US law enforcement tried to find him.

His vile scheme victimized hundreds of women since it started in 2012, most of whom were lured to San Diego from across the country through phony advertisements for modeling gigs.

But once the women — most between 18 and 21 years old — were in the hotel room, a camera crew would be waiting and they would be forced into having sex.

If they said no, Pratt and his team threatened to cancel their flights home, stick them with exorbitant bills for lodging and production, or post the explicit footage and photos online.

And in several instances, film crews even blocked hotel room doorways with their gear to prevent women from leaving, KTLA 5 reported.

When the shoot was finally done, Pratt would typically pay the women about $2,000 and promise them the footage would only ever end up in private DVD collections in Australia — only for it to emerge later on his subscription-based GirlsDoPorn website and free platforms like Pornhub, where they racked up millions of views.


  Pratt was sentenced to 27 years in prison Tuesday — years more than the recommended sentence for his crimes. PolicÃa Nacional/Twitter Pratt was sentenced to 27 years in prison Tuesday — years more than the recommended sentence for his crimes. PolicÃa Nacional/Twitter

When the women found out, many begged Pratt to remove the footage — but he would refuse.

“The reality is that he lied to these women knowing full well he was going to blow up their lives,” Assistant US Attorney Sasha Foster told the judge during sentencing.

In court Tuesday, some of his victims even estimated at least 15 women tricked by Pratt later committed suicide or died from drug overdoses — with one victim’s mother recalling how she was baffled when her happy daughter suddenly became depressed, drug-addicted, and then died of an overdose in 2023.

“What I would say is that number would not at all surprise me, given the number of women who got up there and said that they’ve attempted suicide,” Foster said about the prospect of deaths stemming from Pratt’s scheme.

Pratt apologized to his victims before he was sentenced, and said it was “never my intention to hurt anyone.”

Several people who worked for Pratt have also been sentenced to prison — including cameraman Theodore Gyi, who was sentenced to four years, and Ruben Andre Garcia, an adult actor who had sex with many of the women for the films and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Pratt’s former bookkeeper, Valorie Moser, will be sentenced Friday.

Pratt and other operators of GirlsDoPorn were also ordered to pay nearly $13 million in damages in 2020.

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