Federal prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of nearly 22 years for the owner of the San Diego-based GirlsDoPorn.com website, which featured pornographic videos of young women who were forced or coerced into appearing in the films under false pretenses, according to court documents filed Friday.

Michael James Pratt, described by prosecutors as "the ringleader in a wide-ranging sex-trafficking conspiracy" surrounding the now-defunct website, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

Pratt was the last of several former GirlsDoPorn employees to plead guilty in the long-running prosecution and is among the last to be sentenced.

Prosecutors said the website's operators led women to believe the videos in which they appeare

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