Federal prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of nearly 22 years for the owner of the San Diego-based GirlsDoPorn website, according to court documents filed Friday.

The site featured pornographic videos of young women who were forced or coerced into appearing in the films under false pretenses,

Michael James Pratt, described by prosecutors as “the ringleader in a wide-ranging sex-trafficking conspiracy” surrounding the now-defunct website, pleaded guilty in June to charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

Pratt fled the country after the civil trial got underway, spent more than three years on the lam, and was at one time on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list. He was arrested in Spain in late 2022.

At his Sept. 8 sentencing hearing in San Diego federal

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