However about 50 women reported similar crimes by Flanders and Callum.
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The trial court granted the website operator’s motion to dismiss, which Doe appealed. Internet Brands filed a motion to dismiss, arguing the plaintiff’s claim was barred under the Communications Decency Act (CDA). She sued Internet Brands for failure to warn users under state law. Doe argued that by the time she was assaulted, the website operator Internet Brands knew about the rape scheme employed by Flanders and Callum and failed to warn her about the dangers of placing a profile on the website. This was 5 months before Doe was assaulted. In 2010, Internet Brands sued the two original developers of the site Donald and Taylor Waitts for failing to disclose the potential for civil suits arising from Flanders’ and Callum’s activities. Others had no memory of the assaults and only began to piece together what happened when strangers tracked them down via phone or Facebook messages, lauding the victims on their pornographic performances. The vulgar accounts continued to pour in, as some of the women testified that they woke up in their cars or hotels, bleeding or covered in vomit, drugged and unable to move, remembering only snippets of being sexually abused by a strange man. The men were using Model Mayhem to identify targets for the rape scheme as early as 2006, and were arrested and charged in 2007 with luring and victimizing at least seven women.
and Emerson Callum had already been indicted in similar claims. Worse, this was not the first time the men have perpetrated this crime.Īs the case unraveled, it was found that Lavont Flanders Jr. They then used the film for sale and distribution as pornography. The men proceeded to take turns raping her and recorded the activity on videotape. When she arrived in Florida for the audition, Flanders and another man, Emerson Callum, drugged her with a date rape drug to put her in a semi-catatonic state. Doe accepted an invitation from Flanders to south Florida for a modeling audition. In February 2011, Doe was contacted by a man claiming to be a talent scout, Lavont Flanders. Aspiring and working models upload photos and contact information, in the hopes that agents and talent scouts will contact them with work. The website is targeted at persons within and looking to get into the modeling profession. 14, created a profile on a networking website called Model Mayhem. An aspiring model, known in court transcripts as Jane Doe No.
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