The owner of the GirlsDoPorn website that produced and posted pornographic videos online featuring young women who were coerced into appearing in the videos under false pretenses pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Thursday to sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking charges.

Michael James Pratt, 42, who fled the country in 2019 just before criminal charges were filed against him and other GirlsDoPorn employees, is the final defendant to enter a guilty plea in the long-running federal prosecution.

Prosecutors say the San Diego-based website's operators led women to believe the videos in which they appeared would be distributed only to private customers living outside of the country rather than proliferated online, despite always intending to post the videos on the i

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