PornHub owner MindGeek is sued for $80m by FORTY women who say site 'partnered with and profited from sex trafficking operation GirlsDoPorn'
PornHub owner MindGeek is being sued for $80 million by 40 women who say the site profited from 'sex trafficking' operation GirlsDoPorn.
In a complaint filed Tuesday in
California, the alleged victims say MindGeek 'knew it was partnering with and profiting from a sex trafficking venture for years'.
A judge found in January that the owners and operators GirlsDoPorn must pay $12.7 million for lying to women about how their explicit videos would be distributed.
The fresh lawsuit, filed this week, states: 'MindGeek also knew of the significant harassment and trauma GirlsDoPorn's victims were enduring by its continued publication of the victims' videos' but 'simply did not care'. It claims the site 'continued to partner with GirlsDoPorn until it was no longer profitable'.
PornHub, whose parent company is Montreal-based MindGeek, was this week forced to crack down on its unverified users following a New York Times report which said it was profiting from videos of child sexual exploitation, rape and revenge porn.
Even after the videos were flagged and removed, downloaded copies continued to circulate, often with severe personal consequences, the paper said.
Pornhub, which attracted 42 billion views in 2019, said that it doesn't knowingly allow images of sexual abuse of children but was forced to remove more than 10 million unverified videos - the majority of its content - Monday.
Credit card companies Visa, Mastercard and Discover have since blocked their customers from making purchases on Pornhub.
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