Woman speaks out amid $800 million class-action lawsuit against PornHub
A woman confronted with shocking footage of her own child sex abuse on website PornHub is leading a class-action lawsuit against its parent company.
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A class-action lawsuit being brought against MindGeek, the parent company of pornography website PornHub, is being led by a woman who claims footage of her own sexual abuse as a child was uploaded to the site.
Referred to in the $US600 million ($A800 million) lawsuit only as Jane Doe, the woman was sexually abused by a family member for years. When he died, she thought she could finally move on from that horrific part of her life.
But then a former high school friend messaged her on social media.
“It was in my ‘message requests’, so I didn’t see it right away,” Jane Doe told Canadian news outlet CityNews. “When I opened it, I froze.”
The friend thought he had recognised her in a video on PornHub and was sending her the link to check.
At the time the footage was taken, she was just 12 years old.
“I feel like it had to have been so incredibly obvious to anybody watching it that this was a child and I thought that if this ever existed on the internet that, you know, it’s on the dark web where people are intentionally going to look for this and it’s not for public consumption,” Jane Doe said.
“I could tell just based on the image … what occurred in the video,” she said.
“There were links to others. And I was able to locate more videos by going through the comments section, clicking them, and seeing that through still images. But this was still me around the same age and different events,” she said. “It just took my breath away.”
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