The owner and operator of a pornography production company, Michael James Pratt, 39, is charged with sex trafficking and the production of child pornography. The FBI is offering up to a $100,000 reward for info that leads to this man’s arrest.
According to the FBI, from approximately 2012 to 2019, Pratt and others allegedly participated in a conspiracy to recruit young adult and minor women to engage in commercial sex acts by force, fraud, and coercion.
Pratt and a co-conspirator owned and operated a pornography production company and online pornography websites, “GirlsDoPorn” and “GirlsDoToys.”
Pratt and his co-conspirators allegedly recruited young women from around the United States and Canada by posting false internet advertisements for clothed modeling jobs, which the victims later discovered were pornographic productions.
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Pratt also allegedly paid other young women working at his and his co-conspirators’ direction to act as references and provide false assurances to the women that, if they filmed a pornographic video, the video would not be posted online.
Some women were allegedly not permitted to leave the shooting locations until the videos were completed, others were allegedly forced to perform sex acts they had declined to perform, and some women were allegedly sexually assaulted.
Pratt’s pornography websites generated more than $17 million U.S. dollars in revenue.
A federal arrest warrant was issued for Pratt in the United States District Court, Southern District of California, on November 6, 2019.
If you have any information concerning this person, please contact your local FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.
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