Laila Mickelwait
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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People are uncomfortable. They're afraid to talk about it. It's one of those things that it's affecting everybody in some way. We're all in contact with this free user-generated porn industry, but nobody wants to talk about it.
Thank you. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, it wasn't something that 10 years ago I thought in 2025, this is what I'm going to be doing. But at the same time, I had been preparing for it my whole life. So in the context of over 15 years in the fight against sex trafficking, I was paying attention to the headlines and I was noticing that there was a trend that it wasn't just happening offline. It was being filmed.
It was being monetized online. And so there was this intersection between what I call the big porn industry, and we can talk about that, and child sexual abuse and trafficking. And at the end of 2019, I started to notice some really concerning headlines. One story that I kind of credit to the launch of the trafficking hub movement was a story that
about a 15-year-old girl from Broward County, Florida, and she had been missing for an entire year, and she was finally found when her distraught mother was tipped off by a Pornhub user that he recognized her daughter on the site. Oh, gosh.
And she was found in 58 videos being raped on Pornhub, and police actually were able to locate her, and they recognized the guy's face from the assaults in the video, and she was rescued from his apartment. She had been impregnated. It was like this horror story.
No, she had been missing. So I think she might have ran away. Nobody could find her for a year. And this is how she was found, that her mom was notified that her daughter was on Pornhub. And she was actually in videos that were being paid to download. So it was a profit-sharing relationship with Pornhub, and they were splitting the profit from the sale of her rape videos.
So that was really concerning. I had read that story a few days after my second child was born.
Yeah. I cared about this for so many years. But then when I have my own children, emotionally, it hits you in a different way to a deeper place.
You just can't. It's just this whole other level of emotional connection, empathy, and all of you can imagine yourself in the position of that mother. All of that.
I would say, so on Pornhub, we have a percentage of them that we know 20% of the content was from people who considered themselves in the kind of professional model category, although we know that there was criminals infested in there as well. And 80% of that site was user-generated, not verifying agent consent.
So I would say on these sites, the possibility that this could be illegal, if there's a site that's not verifying agent consent, is probably over 80%. Not to say that that is the percentage. The possibility is that.
Now, we actually have some concrete numbers to show that at one point, Pornhub was admitting in the height of all of this happening, they said 1%, they did like an audit of themselves and they said, we think that 1% of our content is child sexual abuse material. And that would be confirmed, known, hashed, previously uploaded child sexual abuse material.
That means that it was one in 100 videos, child sexual abuse.
Themselves.
Right.
Think about that. People are browsing a lot of videos per session on those sites.
We know the stats of child sexual abuse material online, but specific to the adult sites, we don't really have those numbers. NCMEC has had over 100 million reports of child sexual abuse in one year.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Yeah. So the London Sunday Times, which is a very credible investigative newspaper in London, they had done an investigation at that time and they had found dozens of illegal videos on Pornhub within minutes, even children as young as three.
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