As the clip began to circulate among her classmates, she started skipping class, and eventually dropped out. She said that she made many attempts to get Pornhub to take the video down—even sending e-mails that she claimed were from her mother. Her attorney, Michael Bowe, of Brown Rudnick, tried to distance her case from the religious anti-trafficking groups, telling the committee, “This is about rape, not porn. It’s about trafficking, not consensual adult performance or entertainment. ”