A San Diego federal judge on Friday sentenced a former bookkeeper for the now-defunct website GirlsDoPorn to two years in federal prison, telling Valorie Moser that she played a small but important part of the sex-trafficking conspiracy in which the website’s employees tricked and coerced young women into filming adult videos.

Between 2015 and 2018, one of Moser’s jobs was to pick up victims from the San Diego International Airport and transport them to local hotels where the videos were filmed, according to her plea. Victims said the presence of Moser, as a woman, helped comfort them and alleviate some of their nerves.

“Much of that comfort was false assurances,” U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino told Moser on Friday.

The sex-trafficking conspiracy was spearheaded by Michael James Pratt, the former owner and operator of San Diego-based GirlsDoPorn, who was sentenced in September to 27 years in prison. Pratt admitted that he and those who worked for him recruited young women online from across the country as models, then pressured them to have sex on camera once they arrived in San Diego. The women were told the videos would go to private DVD collections overseas, but instead they were widely disseminated on the GirlsDoPorn online network and free pornography sites.

According to her plea agreement, Moser participated in transporting about 100 women to filming sites despite being aware that they “had been provided false assurances that the videos would not be published on the internet.”

But her attorney argued Friday that his client was unaware of the scope of the deceit and did not know some of the women would be sexually assaulted and raped.

“I feel disgusted, shameful, foolish,” Moser told the victims in a statement read by her attorney. “I am truly sorry I failed you.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sasha Foster said Moser also ignored or blocked calls and messages from some of the women pleading with her to help convince Pratt to take their videos off the internet.

“She knew what she was doing and played a major role in the scheme,” one victim told the judge in a statement read by Foster. Another victim, also in a statement read by the prosecutor, said Moser “actively manipulated” women and “used trust as a weapon.”

During Pratt’s sentencing, dozens of victims said they suffered relentless torment after online trolls posted their full names and other identifying information online. Many had their personal lives destroyed after links or images from the videos were emailed to family members, bosses and college administrators.

Defense attorney Anthony Colombo, in arguing for a non-custody sentence, said that Moser was essentially a whistleblower. He said that in 2018, she immediately agreed to cooperate with attorneys representing 22 of the women in a civil lawsuit against Pratt and GirlsDoPorn. Moser eventually testified in that trial, which resulted in a $12.7 million judgment for the women.

Moser also immediately cooperated with the FBI when she was indicted in the federal criminal case and was prepared to testify against Pratt and her other co-defendants if any of them went to trial, Colombo said. That’s in part why she was sentenced nearly five years after pleading guilty.

Foster said prosecutors recommended a shorter sentence because of her significant assistance in the case.