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“You are evil”: GirlsDoPorn ringleader Michael Pratt sentenced to 27 years | Sentence is longer than US asked for; judge "never had a case like this before."


Sentence is longer than US asked for; judge “never had a case like this before.”…

GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt was sentenced to 27 years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to sex trafficking charges. "Pratt, the owner and operator of GirlsDoPorn.com and GirlsDoToys.com, built a multimillion-dollar criminal empire by luring young women into pornography through lies, coercion, and manipulation, and then broadcasting their abuse to millions online," the US Department of Justice said yesterday after the sentencing in US District Court for the Southern District of California. US District Judge Janis Sammartino told Pratt before handing down the sentence, "I've been doing this a very long time and I've never had a case like this before, of this magnitude...

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