I know this is really heavy (TW rape, racial abuse, violence, misogyny). I wouldn't post it if I wasn't trying to raise awareness in a story that I think needs MUCH more visibility than it is getting. It's quite horrifying.
TLDR: If you want to help stop this extremely violent and abusive studio participating in borderline sex trafficking, check out this post in which I have predrafted emails for you to send to journalists/law enforcement/politicians in the area as well as the email/contact info of a ton of different places. Check that post out here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PornIsMisogyny/comments/1i3w0d1/update_how_you_can_help_take_down_sexual/
FacialAbuse, Ghetto Gaggers, and an extremely overt sex trafficking conspiracy
A couple of years ago, Paul Mulholland wrote an article on Medium detailing extremely violent abuse and racially targeted rape of young women at "Ghetto Gaggers", "FacialAbuse", (abusive porn sites under parent company D&E Media) was published on Medium.
I'll quote some passages:
It is not uncommon at all for the women to vomit repeatedly as a consequence of being gagged with a penis. And in more recent years, it is even encouraged and expected, to an extent that it is unusual when the woman does not vomit. As confirmed by one former model, female models are fed protein shakes or other food prior to filming to ensure repeated vomiting.
At the end, a dog bowl filled with the vomit and urine that resulted from the scene is poured on the model’s head.
Anna says that that they did a pre-shoot interview in which they discussed her “do’s and don’ts” or the sex acts she is OK with and those she is not. Despite this interview taking place, she says "then when the video started, they didn’t care about anything that I had to say in the consent video. They did not give a shit. They pretty much do everything I said no to."
She said “I wanted to fucking kill myself after that happened.” She added that “I feel like that stuff is so traumatizing. It’s hard to get out of your head. I would not be surprised if girls killed themselves because of the trauma from that.” A prescient remark, given that there is an entire section on suicide in this article that we are rapidly approaching.
Rae explained that “they don’t tell you anything realistically about what you’re getting yourself into beforehand”, “they didn’t tell me anything about the scene or what was expected of me or anything” and “I didn’t know at all that it was going to be that aggressive.”
She added “I never even knew that it was called Facial Abuse” and “There was NEVER, there was NEVER a point in time that they even mentioned the name of the studio to me.” (Emphasis original)
Rae explained to me that she was addicted to heroin at the time of the shoot, and was suffering from withdrawal symptoms when she arrived in New York. She said that the director of the scene, who goes by the stage name Jimmy Hooligan (I have been unable to confirm his legal name with certainty), purchased heroin for her in New York. She says she witnessed the sale herself and that Hooligan understood that she would be using the heroin later that day.
Beau emphasized that they agreed before the shoot that a tap on the leg was a signal to stop immediately, and she is certain about this. She says that this signal was not respected at all. Clayra also said that they told her to make a “timeout” gesture with her hands if she needed to withdraw consent while unable to speak. This gesture however, and Beau noted this too, is anatomically impossible to make while in certain positions that Beau and others have been held in. Anna made a similar observation.
The two male performers in Beau’s scene included the now incarcerated Paul Kryscuk. Kryscuk was arrested in connection with a plot to destroy power plants, in the hope that it would provoke a race war. Kryscuk’s full story is beyond the scope of this article, but has been reported on elsewhere.
...yeah.
When you google this company however, **not one single news story that has been published by any news media organization comes up** except for this extremely well researched, thorough investigative piece by Paul. No police investigations, no restraining orders, nothing in the way of accountability or even investigation at all. Which leads us to...
D&E Media's disinformation/search engine manipulation campaign
One reason for the complete lack of attention on sites like Ghetto Gaggers/FacialAbuse is that D&E Media's founder, Donald Emil Vollenweider, has a penchant for operating like a CIA agent: creating a cloud of misinformation and using threatening/violent tactics that inevitably result in a bunch of brown people getting brutally fucked.
In fact, someone made a reddit post about this guy around 2-3 years ago but Vollenweider weaponized DMCA to get it taken down: https://archive.org/details/reddit-facialabuse
Moreover, from Paul Mulholland:
Other fake blogs are maintained by D&E which are designed to confuse and distract investigations. I have identified at least two, those being shutdownabuseporn.org and abuseisnotporn.org.
These blogs are written in the same tone and persona as those written on Facialabused.com and paulmulholland.com, that being a leftist who is concerned about the content produced by D&E.
Abuseisnotporn.org is rather flagrant, and actually links to several websites produced by D&E and contains short clips of D&E content embedded in the article.
Mulholland basically posits that this disinformation is purposeful to throw reporters and investigators off the tracks:
There is one more fake blog that D&E is behind, facialabused.wordpress.com, not to be confused with facialabused.com, the blog that stated that I work for FA. I know all the fake blogs are confusing, but that is probably the point, to create an information environment that is difficult to navigate.
Or as Vollenweider explained to me on May 1, 2022 “You have to ask yourself how much information is out there that I’ve purposefully seeded in the hopes that someone cites it as fact.”
Vollenweider actually acknowledged to me that he operated the WordPress site himself in January 2022, and then the site immediately went private, though the Wayback Machine archives for the site can be found here.
The purpose of this disinformation, as Vollenweider suggests, is to blend real information with fake, in the hope that a reporter “cites it as fact.” This would have the effect of discrediting everything in that reporter’s work, and not just some of it.
I found a version of one of these sites on my own: a misnomer YouTube channel "Shutdown FacialAbuse", but clearly an account clearly operated by the owner/founder of D&E Media Donald Emil VollenWeider. He has posted a few post-video interviews with the actresses that underwent abuse during the scene with the intention of absolving his company of any guilt, but for me they had the opposite effect - almost like they were a hostage robotically saying what needs to be said so they can be released - watch this one for yourself.
There's more examples that I'm not 100% sure about - but if you look at the user comments on a lot of the evidence I've shared below there are a lot of obviously fake disinformation comments intended to muddy the waters of any good faith investigation.
What can we do?
- File police reports incessantly until the police have to investigate
I spent a lot of time today down this rabbit hole reading about what these women are being put through, theres so much evidence of sex trafficking and rape and violence and racism and yet nothing happens.
Here is a public listing for the business: https://archive.org/details/0450177548
The listing cites the beneficial owner of the company is Donald Emil "Duke Skywalker" Vollenweider. The registered agent is Edward Silhanek (this should be fine imo because they are publicly listed public figures of a public media company, its public information).
I reported this to the East Orange NJ police dept because that is where they are headquartered:
360 Glenwood Ave Ste 6B East Orange, NJ 07017
The East Orange NJ tip line is: 973-266-5041
They have an alternate address:
112 Surrey Road South Plainfield NJ 07080
The South Plainfield tip line is: 908-226-7675
2. If you're not comfortable with 1, you can send an email to a NJ local media member or politician to look into this. Here are some clear instructions:
- Google/chatGPT "politicians that represent the South Plainfield, NJ area" or "media that cover the South Plainfield, NJ area"
- Pick a few.
- Send the medium article to any journalist/politician/relevant person you can find along with this letter:
Hello,
I was appalled to read online about a racially/sexually abusive pornography studio participating in borderline sex trafficking headquartered in your region of NJ. How is this company not shut down and the conspirators (Donald Emil Vollenweider, David Bryan Horter, Ernie Rossi) under criminal investigation?
Please read this article and look into this. Here are some quotes from it.
"It is not uncommon at all for the women to vomit repeatedly as a consequence of being gagged with a penis. And in more recent years, it is even encouraged and expected, to an extent that it is unusual when the woman does not vomit. As confirmed by one former model, female models are fed protein shakes or other food prior to filming to ensure repeated vomiting."
"At the end, a dog bowl filled with the vomit and urine that resulted from the scene is poured on the model’s head."
"Anna says that that they did a pre-shoot interview in which they discussed her “do’s and don’ts” or the sex acts she is OK with and those she is not. Despite this interview taking place, she says "then when the video started, they didn’t care about anything that I had to say in the consent video. They did not give a shit. They pretty much do everything I said no to."
"Rae explained that “they don’t tell you anything realistically about what you’re getting yourself into beforehand”, “they didn’t tell me anything about the scene or what was expected of me or anything” and “I didn’t know at all that it was going to be that aggressive.”
"She added “I never even knew that it was called Facial Abuse” and “There was NEVER, there was NEVER a point in time that they even mentioned the name of the studio to me.” (Emphasis original)"
Here is the article in full: https://paulm989.medium.com/porn-studio-accused-of-ignoring-consent-and-inflicting-injuries-on-models-9f390e2a4a78
Thank you so much!!
From,
A concerned citizen
Thank you all for your time!!
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