GirlsDoPorn founder receives 27-year prison sentence for sex trafficking

Prosecutors say Michael James Pratt used force, fraud and coercion to recruit hundreds of women for adult videos

The founder of a California-based pornography empire that recruited women with false modeling offers was sentenced on Monday to 27 years in federal prison for sex trafficking.

Michael James Pratt pleaded guilty in June in federal court in San Diego. Federal prosecutors said Pratt and his co-defendants used force, fraud and coercion to recruit hundreds of women, many of whom were in their late teens, for their adult videos.