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Pornhub Under Fire After Videos Of Rapes, Sex Trafficking Victims Posted To Site

Paul Bois
Pornhub Under Fire After Videos Of Rapes, Sex Trafficking Victims Posted To Site
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Internet porn empire Pornhub has come under fire in recent days for featuring videos of rape and sex trafficking victims on its platform.

In an explosive op-ed in the Washington Examiner on Sunday, Laila Mickelwait noted “several shocking cases of sex trafficking and child rape films that were hosted on Pornhub” over the past few months, including one involving a 15-year-old girl who was missing for up to a year until her mother discovered 58 videos of her being hosted on the site. The girl’s trafficker was eventually spotted in a 7-Eleven surveillance video before police arrested him. Another case involved Michael Pratt, owner of GirlsDoPorn, who coerced 22 women into performing sex acts on camera; the acts were later posted to Pornhub.

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