A video of a 14-year-old girl is the main evidence behind a class-action lawsuit filed in the United States against a pornography website. 

The National Center for Sexual Exploitation and other survivor-oriented law firms in California are accusing XVideos as well as its parent company WebGroup Czech Republic of selling, publishing, and distributing the video of the underage girl on its websites. This would fall under child sex trafficking. 

According to the lawsuit, the company didn't take any measures to ensure the female in the video was of legal age to consent. At this time the video has been shared around the world. 

"XVideos not only violated the law by hosting Jane Doe's child sexual abuse material, it profited from her abuse given that each image and video of her was monetized," NCOSE Senior Legal Counsel Dani Pinter says to The Christian Post. "This cannot be allowed to stand and remain unchallenged. Victims of childhood sexual abuse such as Jane Doe unequivocally deserve justice."

As this particular teenager isn't the only one who has been put in this situation, the term 'Jane Doe' will be used for any minor in a video on this pornographic website. The lawsuit claims the company has profited from advertising and promoting the websites to draw users to watch the videos. 

With 110 million visitors every single day, the porn site in question is "making money off of the exploitation, rape, and trafficking of hundreds if not thousands of women and girls who are victims, and their crime scenes are being hosted on their website," says Laila Mickelwait to CBN's Faithwire. 

Mickelwait is the director of abolition for Exodus Cry, an advocacy organization focused on ending sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Exodus Cry was also part of the recent collective voice of calling for the company based out of Montreal, MindGeek, to be shut down.

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