After three years on the run and a stint on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, the leader of GirlsDoPorn , Michael Pratt, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking charges in San Diego on Thursday, authorities said.

Pratt used force, fraud and coercion to recruit hundreds of women, many of whom were in their late teens, to perform sex acts on camera, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The women were often lured under the pretense of modeling gigs and were later told they would be filming adult videos, which Pratt and his business partners falsely promised would not appear online, prosecutors said. If the women refused to finish filming, Pratt would threaten to sue them, cancel flights home and post the videos publicly.

The videos would then be uploaded to GirlsDoPorn.com, whe

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