Visa announced Thursday that it was cutting ties with Pornhub parent company MindGeek’s advertising platform after a federal judge ruled the credit card giant could be held financially liable in a child sex abuse lawsuit.
On Friday, California Judge Cormac J. Carney denied Visa’s motion to dismiss the case, brought by a woman who says the credit card giant profited from a video of her being sexually abused as a 13-year-old child in 2014 by processing advertising purchases on the website.
Plaintiff Serena Fleites “adequately pled” the credit card giant “conspired” to profit from her abuse by processing advertising purchases on the adult website Pornhub, the judge ruled.