The owner of the San Diego-based GirlsDoPorn.com website, which featured pornographic videos of young women who were forced or coerced into appearing in the films under false pretenses, was sentenced to a long term in federal prison Monday, much longer, in fact than prosecutors had recommended.
Michael James Pratt, described by prosecutors as “the ringleader in a wide-ranging sex-trafficking conspiracy” surrounding the now-defunct website, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
Federal prosecutors were seeking a prison sentence of nearly 22 years for Pratt, and his defense asked for less time behind bars, but, after hearing from Pratt’s victims, U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino handed down a sentence of 27 years, with 10 years of supervised probation to follow.
Sammartino handed the sentence down based on what she said was “the sheer scope and magnitude of this offense.”
