Rotten Mango
Influencer Lures Followers To Move In, Then Sex Traffics Them To Fund Her Witchcraft
17 Feb 2025
In Brazil, this specific prison is known as the “real dungeons.” Because once you get in - you feel like you’re trapped in hell until they let you out. That is - if you can even get out alive. BBC reporters are there to interview one of the most high profile prisoners. Every single prisoner in there has been deemed a dangerous criminal - this one even more so. She walks out. Thin frame. Short blonde hair. She used to be a model in NYC and was reported to have dated Leonardo DiCaprio. What is she doing in here? “Why are you in here?” - they ask her. “They say I can control people minds. Change their brains.” - she responds. “Can you?” “What do you think? Can I? I hope so… when I get out you will see the power that I have and if it is real or not.” “Is that a threat” Did the prisoner just threaten the BBC reporters? This is the case of Kat Torres - the Brazilian Instagram “influencer” with over 1 million followers that has been charged with human trafficking and slavery charges. Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
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Bada bing, bada boo. The Santo Expedito Prison in Brazil is often called the real dungeons. There are some reports that 20 plus prisoners are shoved into one singular cell. Most of them are left to sleep on the floor, waiting to be left out maybe once a day for 30 minutes a day if they're lucky.
The rest of the days, they're left to sit on this sticky, rat infested, cockroach upside down, sticking to the cement floors of the prison It would take sometimes weeks for prisoners to even get a fresh hit of air to their nostrils. Fresh air. BBC investigators go to interview someone from that very prison. They're outside waiting in the permitted area where they've set up all these cameras.
And there she comes. She's coming out. Out walks this thin, tall, blonde woman. She used to be a model in New York. She was rumored to have been dating Leonardo DiCaprio at one point. Her ex-husband is a crypto millionaire. What the hell is she doing in this prison in Brazil? The reporters ask her, what are you doing here? And she scoffs.
They're saying that she is a danger to society because she can change people's minds with her words. She can turn their brains around. Well, can you? Can I? You tell me. Can I? I hope I can. She claims that she has been unjustly placed into this prison with real criminals. She does not belong here. This is an injustice.
But when she gets up at the end of the interview, she looks at the two interviewers from the BBC and says, later you will find out whether I have power or not. I'm sorry, what? Is that a threat? She smiles. I don't like this one. and walks off. Wait, what do you mean?
She tells one of the interviewers, you're going to find out if I have real powers or not. And they're like, did you just threaten us? Like we have this on camera. Are you threatening us right now? She says, I don't like this one. And she points at one of the interviewers, the one that was asking the harder questions. And she walks off. Did she seriously just threaten BBC reporters? ¶¶
Thank you guys for your continued support As always, full show notes are available at ratminglepodcast.com. Today's case has mentions of SA trafficking. The perpetrator of today's case also has various mental health diagnosis, but to be very clear, in an effort to de-stigmatize such diagnoses does not make someone inherently violent.
nor is today's case a reliable representation of mental health or hallucinogens. We're going to get there. We had two books translated for the source material for this case. One was written by the perpetrator before she committed the crimes, and one was written by one of the victims.
The victim was brave enough to share very in-depth details on the trauma that she endured while essentially being held hostage, and specific details of what she had to go through whilst being trafficked. All the very specific quotes situations are attributed to the original source material, the victim's own book called Searching Desiree. I highly recommend you read it if possible.
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