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After years on the run, GirlsDoPorn boss faces 'beginning of the end' in San Diego

LOS ANGELES — It was a moment hundreds of women had been waiting for — and one many feared would never come. Five years after he fled the country and minutes before his former right-hand man was sentenced in federal court, authorities announced that the alleged mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking ring had touched down in San Diego in federal custody. Michael James Pratt ...
The FBI released a new poster on April 3, 2024, after announcing GirlsDoPorn boss Michael James Pratt was added to the FBI' s "10 Most Wanted Fugitive" list.

LOS ANGELES — It was a moment hundreds of women had been waiting for — and one many feared would never come.

Five years after he fled the country and minutes before his former right-hand man was sentenced in federal court, authorities announced that the alleged mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking ring had touched down in San Diego in federal custody.

Michael James Pratt disappeared in the summer of 2019, just before on federal conspiracy and sex trafficking charges stemming from what prosecutors said was a decadelong scheme to con hundreds of teens and young women into appearing in adult videos

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