A woman who was tricked into appearing in a pornographic video is suing a payment processing company, claiming that the pornography would not have been possible without the payment service.
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GirlsDoPorn Victims Sue Major Payment Processors, Claiming They Enabled Sex Trafficking
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GirlsDoPorn is a criminal organization that primarily targeted underage girls outside the adult industry, falsely claiming they were modeling and forcing them into pornographic filming, promising that the videos would never be published online. The operator was indicted on human trafficking charges in 2019 and sentenced to 27 years in prison.
In 2025, three women who claimed they had been tricked into posting videos of themselves on GirlsDoPorn filed new lawsuits against multiple payment processors.
The plaintiffs argue that 'Defendants' payment service companies generated millions of dollars in commission profits for themselves and tens of millions of dollars for GirlsDoPorn. In doing so, Defendants transformed the victims' sexual acts into 'commercial sex acts,' thereby establishing the core elements of human trafficking under the Trafficking in Persons Act. Without Defendants' payment network, GirlsDoPorn would not exist,' and hold the payment service providers responsible.
The plaintiffs point out that from the beginning, GirlsDoPorn had publicly stated on its website that it had 'lured women by falsely claiming to be models,' and that testimonials from GirlsDoPorn's victims had been circulating online, making it easy for payment processors to find out who GirlsDoPorn was.
The court also noted that the fact that the defendants had previously been asked to investigate GirlsDoPorn as part of a civil lawsuit makes it unlikely that the defendants were unaware of GirlsDoPorn's true identity.
The plaintiffs believe the defendants continued to process payments for GirlsDoPorn until October 2019, when all involved parties were arrested or indicted on human trafficking charges and the website was shut down. The plaintiffs state in their complaint that 'while the defendants did indeed stop processing payments, this was not of their own volition but merely as a result of the website's closure.'
The plaintiffs argue that, 'Given the essential role that payment processing plays in the online pornography business, GirlsDoPorn would likely not have been established or survived without the defendants' cooperation.' They also seek a class action lawsuit against all who appeared in videos on GirlsDoPorn and its sister site, GirlsDoToys, between 2009 and 2019. They also seek damages of over $1 million per plaintiff, restitution of profits earned by the payment processors from GirlsDoPorn, punitive damages, and attorneys' fees.
In addition, the pornographic content distribution service Pornhub has paid a large settlement to GirlsDoPorn for continuing to distribute videos despite knowing that they were illegally filmed.
Pornhub admits to profiting from sex trafficking, pays 256 million yen fine and accepts monitors - GIGAZINE
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