Katiuscia Torres Soares, the alleged ex-girlfriend of actor Leonardo DiCaprio, was sentenced to eight years in jail in Brazil for the crimes of human trafficking and slavery, dedicated in opposition to a number of girls through the time she lived illegally within the metropolis of Austin (Texas, USA).
Identified on social media and within the leisure business as ‘Kat’ Torres, the 34-year-old Brazilian girl was answerable for transporting a number of of her victims from Brazil to the US to topic them to different severe crimes, comparable to sexual exploitation and psychological abuse.
In keeping with Brazilian media outlet O Globo, Torres had turn out to be a well-known social media influencer, who promoted herself as a supposed non secular guru to draw her victims by way of using religion and spiritual beliefs.
The influencer, who on her social media confirmed off a lifetime of luxurious, had managed to work as an actress and mannequin within the US, and appeal to thousands and thousands of followers, which gave her entry to a luxurious life that she loved for a time in Los Angeles.
A while later, Torres settled in Austin and managed to guide a supposed spiritual sect, referred to as “The Voice”, the place as a non secular guru he claimed to have a direct reference to a deity, an argument that he used to deceive and abuse his followers with false guarantees of affection, cash and a greater life.
Torres has been detained in Brazil since October 2023, after being deported for dwelling illegally within the US for years. She is presently in a girls’s jail in Bangu, west of Rio de Janeiro.
One of many victims
In a grievance filed in opposition to Torres by prosecutors from Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s Workplace (MPF) earlier than a Federal Court docket, for the abuses that the faux guru allegedly dedicated in opposition to Desirrê Freitas, it’s indicated that the aggressor lowered her sufferer to a degrading routine between April 2022 and November of that very same 12 months.
In keeping with prosecutors, quoted by O Globo, Katiuscia “seduced, housed and welcomed the alleged sufferer, by way of fraud, with the intention to topic her to work in situations much like slavery; to any kind of servitude and sexual exploitation, counting on relationships of cohabitation and hospitality.”
The younger girl was additionally compelled to bop in a nightclub, working grueling shifts of greater than 13 hours and and not using a weekly break. Her picture was additionally marketed on a prostitution web site in Austin and San Antonio, by way of a profile providing intercourse, fetishism and massages.
Desirrê additionally mentioned in an interview with Globo that, over the last months when she was reported lacking by her household and pals, Torres compelled her to lie about her scenario with the intention to drive them away.
Torres can be mentioned to have recruited different younger girls, together with minors, with the promise of enhancing their high quality of life. In keeping with investigations, it’s presumed that the sufferer had managed to enter the world of leisure as an escort.
Along with the Freitas case, the São Paulo Public Prosecutor’s Workplace obtained a collection of different related complaints in opposition to Torres. These circumstances had been added to the investigation being performed by the MPF within the Federal Court docket of Rio.
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