Brazilian court orders preventive detention of guru Kat Torres for promoting work analogous to slavery in the US

The 5th Federal Criminal Court of São Paulo issued a preventive arrest warrant against former model and self-declared spiritual guru and “witch” Katiuscia Torres Soares, known as Kat Torres, 34, for exposing people to conditions similar to slavery in the United States. United. The decision was published last Thursday (17th), and fits the blogger in article 149 of the Brazilian Penal Code, which provides for 2 to 8 years of imprisonment and a fine for each crime committed. The report found that she has already been deported and is on Brazilian soil, at the disposal of Justice.

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In addition to the arrest, the Federal Court also issued a search and seizure warrant against the coach and determined the breach of telephone secrecy and telematic data of devices belonging to her. The investigations into Kat Torres’ performance are under secrecy, in charge of the Federal Police, and are closely monitored by the Federal Public Ministry of SP, which in the last week heard, by videoconference, alleged victims, who talk about extortion, quackery, prostitution forced, among other possible crimes, which would have attracted many women from Brazil to visit or even live with her in the US.

She and young Letícia Maia Alvarenga, 21, and Desirrê Freitas, 26, were arrested in the state of Maine, in the USA, last week, when they tried to enter Canada with irregular documentation. The last known whereabouts of Katiuscia, until then, had been exactly the jail of Cumberland, in Maine. The other two girls were transferred to the Immigration Police (ICE) prison, Stewart Detention Center, in the state of Georgia, where they remain in custody. The fact that the guru was extradited indicates that she had an irregular situation in the US, contrary to what she has been implying for years on social networks.

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Kat’s case became known after the families of young Letícia and Desirrê denounced that the girls had disappeared after becoming involved with Torres, and that they were being victims of a possible international human trafficking scheme. It is not known whether manipulated or not by the mentor, the two began to deny all accusations on social networks after the disclosure was made, saying they were fine and ordering relatives and friends to stop looking for them immediately.

Katiuscia published videos where Letícia appeared visibly drugged, such as one where the girl runs aimlessly through a hotel, lifts her skirt over a fountain and then remains on the floor, unable to stand. The recording was the trigger for the family to be worried. Desirrê, in turn, appeared in pointless videos; in one, she invites Vladimir Putin to talk about the war in Ukraine.

The story took on new contours, including when Letícia, in a published video, made serious accusations against her own father, saying that he would have abused her and her brothers in childhood, which was denied by the entire family, but led to an inquiry in Minas. General. Then, they started to attack the Brazilian model Yasmin Brunet, who was trying to help locate Letícia on the networks, with threats and false accusations that she was promoting human trafficking. Brunet then filed a complaint with the Civil Police of São Paulo for insult, defamation and threat.

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Katiuscia Torres is 34 years old and, for a long time, she lied that she was 5 years younger. Her first minutes of fame came when she appeared in photos at a Los Angeles nightclub alongside actor Leonardo DiCaprio. At the time, she even gave interviews as an affair with the future Oscar winner, but later ended up denying it. Then, she would accumulate millions of followers on the networks by creating memes with her own photos, where she reacted with different expressions to everyday problems: “Kat’s Things”.

In 2017, he released the self-help book “A Voz”, which he says was narrated by a voice in his head. In an interview on Amaury Jr.’s program, where she spoke about her work, she said that, at that point, she was already acting as a “medium” of a sect that works through the use of Ayahuasca tea – with psychedelic effects, similar to that of tea. of Santo Daime. She said that she did not recommend it to her followers, but that she used it “often”. On the website where she offers her witchcraft services, she promises to attract a husband, promote financial and professional success, among other things, through techniques such as hypnosis.

No defense of Katiuscia Torres could be found to comment on the investigations and the decision of the Federal Court. Questioned about a possible extradition of the Brazilian, the Federal Police still did not respond to the report until the publication of this article.