San Diego judge sentences GirlsDoPorn bookkeeper who offered ‘false assurances’ to victims

A San Diego federal judge on Friday sentenced a former bookkeeper for the now-defunct website GirlsDoPorn to two years in federal prison, telling Valorie Moser that she played a small but important part of the sex-trafficking conspiracy in which the website’s employees tricked and coerced young women into filming adult videos.

Between 2015 and 2018, one of Moser’s jobs was to pick up victims from the San Diego International Airport and transport them to local hotels where the videos were filmed, according to her plea. Victims said the presence of Moser, as a woman, helped comfort them and alleviate some of their nerves.

“Much of that comfort was false assurances,” U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino told Moser on Friday.

The sex-trafficking conspiracy was spearheaded by Michael James Pratt, the former owner and operator of San Diego-based GirlsDoPorn, who was sentenced in September to 27 years in prison. Pratt admitted that he and those who worked for him recruited yo...