“The Court’s holding that our detailed complaint adequately pleads Visa was engaged in a criminal conspiracy to monetize child porn means Visa and other credit card companies are finally going to face the civil and perhaps criminal consequences of this unconscionable and illegal activity,” said Bowe, a partner at Brown Rudick. The plaintiff’s lead attorney Michael Bowe spoke exclusively to The Post about the verdict Saturday night. It also shot down Visa’s argument that it was an innocent third party, saying the credit card company briefly suspended its ties to Pornhub in 2020 amid allegations it housed thousands of illegal videos before joining forces again. The Central District of California court also ordered MindGeek to undergo jurisdictional discovery and shine a light on its shadowy operations, which the judge said ensures “a hopeless whack-a-mole situation for victims.” “When MindGeek decides to monetize child porn, and Visa decides to continue to allow its payment network to be used for that goal despite knowledge of MindGeek’s monetization of child porn, it is entirely foreseeable that victims of child porn like Plaintiff will suffer the harms that Plaintiff alleges,” the ruling said. Top Pornhub execs resign after accusations of underage, forced sex videos “Here is Visa, standing at and controlling the valve, insisting that it cannot be blamed for the water spill because someone else is wielding the hose,” Carney wrote. In his ruling, US District Court Judge Cormac Carney wrote that there was enough evidence to find that Visa engaged in a criminal conspiracy with the online pornographers.
Visa is claiming it was an innocent third party was denied by a judge when the credit card company motioned to be removed from the lawsuit. Still underage, she began acting in other porn videos produced by an older man to support her habit, the lawsuit said. The plaintiff fell into a deep depression, tried to kill herself and became a heroin user after her unwanted infamy, she claimed. The illicit clip was still on the company’s sites as recently as 2020, according to the suit. The decision was made in connection with a suit filed by a woman who claims Pornhub dragged its heels after she warned it was hosting an explicit video taken of her when she was 13 - at one point requiring photographic evidence that she was the same child in the video.Īfter several weeks, the clip, entitled “13-Year Old Brunette Shows Off For the Camera,” was taken down but reuploaded on other MindGeek sites in 2014, garnering millions of views and earning the company advertising money facilitated by Visa, the victim alleged. The court denied Visa’s motion to be dropped from a lawsuit against porn parent company MindGeek, ruling there was enough evidence to show the company “knowingly provid the tool used to complete the crime” of distributing child pornography. Woman who kept ‘sex slaves’ weeps in court as she appeals convictionĪ federal judge ruled Friday that Visa helped Pornhub “monetize child porn” and sex trafficking - a decision that could have long-lasting implications for credit card companies, legal observers say.
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