Ex-GirlsDoPorn bookkeeper sentenced to prison in sex trafficking case

A former assistant with the San Diego-based GirlsDoPorn.com website was sentenced Friday to two years in prison.

Valorie Moser is one of the last defendants to be sentenced in the long-running prosecution against the website’s owners and operators, whom prosecutors say falsely assured women that pornographic videos in which they appeared would only be featured on DVDs for private customers. Yet they posted the videos online.

Prosecutors say Moser, who worked as a bookkeeper and also drove some of the women to and from video shoots, was aware that the victims were being deceived.

At Moser’s sentencing, statements from two of those women were read aloud in court. Both wrote that Moser assured them nothing untoward would happen.

“Her role was to make us women feel more comfortable because women often trust other women,” one of the victims wrote. “She wasn’t just a bookkeeper that didn’t know what was happening. She was a willing participant.”

Moser and others were charged in 2019. She pleaded guilty in 2021 to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

Her defense attorney, Anthony Colombo, said his client cooperated with investigators at an early stage. Prior to the criminal investigation, she provided testimony in a civil lawsuit brought by 22 victims against GirlsDoPorn’s leadership that he said was crucial in securing a nearly $13 million verdict for the plaintiffs.

While none of the defendants went to trial in the criminal case, Colombo said she was prepared to testify against them if necessary, even in the face of what he said were threats she received from GirlsDo Porn’s owner, Michael James Pratt.

The attorney read a statement from Moser, in which she said she felt “disgusted, shameful and foolish” for her part in the scheme.

“Knowing that I contributed to that will stay with me and it should,” she wrote.

U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino, who previously sentenced Pratt and other defendants in the case, said Moser’s role was minimal compared to her co-defendants, yet she also “played an important part in this process” by providing the women “assurances and comfort.”

Pratt, who spent three years on the run before his arrest and was at one time on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list, was sentenced in September to 27 years in prison.

Most of the others defendants also have been sentenced:

• Matthew Isaac Wolfe, Pratt’s ex-business partner, 14 years in prison.
• Ruben Andre Garcia, the male actor in the videos involving the victims, 20 years
• Theodore Gyi, camera operator, four years
• Alexander Brian Foster, one year in prison for creating a video meant to harass and publicly identify the 22 women who sued GirlsDoPorn. Prosecutors said the video, which was never completed or released, was made at Pratt’s direction.

The lone remaining defendant, Douglas Wiederhold, awaits sentencing next year. According to his plea agreement, Wiederhold appeared as a male actor in 71 GirlsDoPorn videos and also falsely assured at least two women that their videos wouldn’t be posted online.

More than 100 women also sued the parent company for porn-streaming site PornHub, accusing it of profiting off of GirlsDoPorn’s trafficking by hosting the videos. The company reached settlements with the women in both lawsuits and also agreed to pay over $1.8 million to resolve a probe by federal prosecutors.