After years on the run, GirlsDoPorn boss faces 'beginning of the end' in San Diego

Source: Los Angeles Times

After years on the run, GirlsDoPorn boss faces 'beginning of the end' in San Diego

Sonja Sharp
Sat, April 6, 2024 at 6:00 AM EDT·6 min read

It was a moment hundreds of women had been waiting for — and one many feared would never come.

Five years after he fled the country and minutes before his former right-hand man was sentenced in federal court, authorities announced that the alleged mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn sex-trafficking ring had touched down in San Diego in federal custody.

Michael James Pratt disappeared in the summer of 2019, just before he was indicted on federal conspiracy and sex trafficking charges stemming from what prosecutors said was a decade-long scheme to con hundreds of teens and young women into appearing in adult videos for the website he owned.

Pratt was on the lam for three years and had been listed among the FBI's most-wanted fugitives by the time he was arrested in Spain in December of 2022. Five of those indicted alongside him have pleaded guilty to their crimes, each fingering Pratt as the ringleader. The majority of his co-conspirators have started their sentences in prison.

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