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Michael James Pratt, the ringleader of the sex trafficking enterprise Girls Do Porn, which forced and coerced dozens of women into having sex on camera, was extradited to the U.S. and pleaded not guilty in federal court this week.
Authorities in Spain arrested Pratt in December 2022, and he was handed over to the U.S. on Monday, according to an announcement from the FBI. Spain’s national police force released a video of his 2022 arrest on Twitter:
🚩Detenido en #Madrid un fugitivo neozelandés, incluido en la lista de los 10 más buscados del #FBI
— Policía Nacional (@policia) December 23, 2022
Fue condenado a cadena perpetua en #EEUU por delitos de pornografía infantil, explotación sexual, agresión sexual y ganancias ilícitas, llegando a ganar +17 millones de dólares pic.twitter.com/E9uLKMaGw9
Pratt was on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list for several months prior to his arrest. Spanish news outlet El Español reported that Pratt was hiding in Madrid, where he checked into a hotel using one of his many false identities.
Pratt pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 19 felony counts from the Girls Do Porn operation, including 15 counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, production of child pornography, sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy to commit money laundering.