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insta's fake guru: episode 2. she looked beautiful. she looked like a barbie doll. she looked fun and sweet. i remember she has like 1 million followers on her instagram. i was like, "yeah, i want to be like her." the rise of kat torres seemed to be the ultimate rags—to—riches story. from extreme poverty to international model and wellness influencer, she captivated women all over the world. everything that i saw

seemed credible, seemed like she was an ex—model that decided to turn into a life coach. but behind the perfectly curated instagram posts and the promise of all the love, money and self—esteem that you always dreamed of, lay a very dark reality. she was so blissful. she was so sweet. and then she turned into an absolute narcissistic monster. she took these girls - and she convinced them to do whatever she wanted them to do, just like a cult _ i was in a strange city, in a strange hotel, having sex with a stranger for money. how did i get here? i think i was probably one of the first victims of human trafficking. she was using me as a slave. witchcraft, sexual exploitation and missing women. then, a desperate search by their families and the fbi. they are saying she is a danger. to society because she can change

people's minds with her words. she can...phew! can you? canl? you tell me, can i? i hope i can. she told me about the hollywood industry and the experiences she had in los angeles, the people she met, the parties she went to. she knew several models and influencers who had become prostitutes in europe and in the united states. before i could even ask for an explanation, she said that i was wasting a million—dollar opportunity. she talked about the money she had spent on me,

including tickets, accommodation, food, furniture for my room and even the witchcraft she had done. she said if i decided to leave, all these expenses would be charged. and if i didn't pay, she would curse me. kat continued to seek out new revenue streams and started charging followers for spiritual baths. kat, or one of her assistants, would often use this as an opportunity to try and convince the client to come and work for her. she told me to imagine yourself in the nightclubs going out, talk to guys. they're going to give you money. imagining you getting money from them and bringing luggage, full luggage of money, to kat. and i remember she was saying, "do you know you can't say no to kat. "and you need to follow

what she is telling you to do "and don't tell anyone about it." i was very afraid about it. i was with that bad feeling, that intuition. like something bad could happen to me if i go there to austin and be with kat. and at that point i was like, "i don't want to go. "i don't want to be in that situation." leticia tupinamba decided not to travel to austin to move in with kat. in the house, the women say kat introduced a law of silence. they were forbidden

from communicating with each other and they couldn't leave their rooms without kat's permission. as her grip on the women tightened, they say they began to be encouraged down an even more dangerous path. we're never allowed to leave the house. it was a very difficult to get out of the situation because she hold your money, she hold your all your informations. kat said, "you know, you don't have to keep working "at the club if you start to feel bad. "hang out with the guys. "i'm sure that several men you've met have approached you asking "how much it would cost for time with you. "think about it. "what you can make in 15 hours at the club, you can make "in one hour with a man." i heard her on the phone with a girl who is in brazil. she was saying, "you haven't been punished by the voice to be "a prostitute in brazil." isaid, "ok, i need to get out of here." after 42 days, with the help

of a former boyfriend, sol managed to escape. but she says she still feared kat. her husband at the time, | zach, had at the house... i think it's texas, right? so about six guns. so it was terrifying. something could've happened to me because she had my address - and all my informations. my passport, she took i a picture of my passport, took a picture of my driver's license _ zach: maya... laughter kat: maya! desirre writes of how kat repeatedly threatened her and eventually, scared and lost, she gave in to kat's demand that she work as a prostitute. on the way to meet the client, my legs wouldn't stop shaking. when i opened the bedroom door, many questions haunted me. could i stop whenever i wanted?

if the condom broke, would i get a disease? could it be an undercover cop and arrest me? what if he killed me? desirre describes how kat began setting up profiles for her on sugar baby and escort websites. she says she was forced to juggle escort work with performing at the strip club. prostitution is illegal in texas. desirre says kat would threaten to report her to the police if she ever talks about wanting to stop. i also met multimillionaire sugar daddies. the more powerful they were, the more dangerous and unpredictable.

kat said i needed to get out of my comfort zone to make more money. she established that i could only return home after reaching a daily goal of $3,000. i ended up sleeping on the street several times because i couldn't reach that. in the name of mother maryi and your queen, kat torres, the messiah, i'm jesus christ. understand me? during this time, kat's social media presence became more and more disturbing. you see the mirror? you're going to lay on the floor with this position, like this, - with your hands here, i where we can see them. lay on the floor. leticia, feel me. feel my body, my body, my body. you're going to lay like this i when sacramento passes you. are you filming me? mm—hm. do they understand? yes. arms are right here, i away from your body. do not touch each other. around april of 2022, she made an instagram post threatening me. in the post, she says that she's going to hang my skull, that i was a traitor,

that she had welcomed me in her house, and i betrayed her trust. and i was going to pay with my life for what i had done to her. and ijust got really scared, like, i had panic attack. and she was demanding all her followers to tag me. she called me a slave in her post. she says that she make my life hell. unbeknownst to kat, both ana and sol had filed police reports against her. meanwhile, the families of desirre and leticia had lost all contact with the women and started to become anxious about their whereabouts. in brazil, the story dominated news outlets. the women's family and friends started social media campaigns in a desperate bid to find them.

as the search intensified, their instagram accounts grew. kat, away on holiday, began a counteroffensive. she also ordered desirre and leticia maia to post videos of their own.

when the families uncovered the women's escort profiles and the address of the austin house, kat sent plane tickets for the women tojoin her in maine. i started to contact many people to get kat to be arrested. i did an online report to the fbi exposing everything that i had from kat, because at that point i saw that she was involved in prostituting girls. i was seeing the posts that she was doing, and i was like, "she's keeping other girls. " but the police were now on their trail. kat was on the road when a law enforcement officer called to check the girls weren't being held against their will. yes. that's me.

uh, yeah, buta long time. no. very nice. yes. and again, they came here on their own. . they didn't come here for me. they are helping me out. yeah. but ijust don't want anything bad to happen to them. - what kat didn't know is that the call had been secretly recorded, including moments before when she is heard threatening the women. a law enforcement officer eventually convinced kat to visit a police station in maine.

when they came in, what was kind of concerning was the girls�* behaviour. they were definitely very closed off, and that is fairly common with human trafficking survivors. they have a severe distrust for law enforcement, usually ingrained by the trafficker. getting inside with kat and when we were doing the interview and she really didn't give a model of what her business was for or how it worked. itjust said that the girls worked with her and she was a life coach for other girls. there's also another immediate red flag where...this is what she does. she takes these young women under her wing. she said there was nothing to see here. it was all made up by haters. human traffickers aren't always like in the movies where you have maybe a gang that kidnap people. it's far more common that it's someone you trust. it's more like a relationship is built and trust is gained and it's grooming

tactics, like that. that's when i realised all the manipulation and brainwashing i had suffered at kat's hands. she was promising people thingsl that she could never do for them. she took these girls - and she convinced them to do whatever she wanted them to do. just like a cult. she became like a cult leader. kat was deported back to brazil facing charges of human trafficking, slave labour, and medicalfraud. kat has been in prison

since november, 2022. over 20 women have reported being scammed or exploited by her, many of whom the bbc has spoken to. the first trial, which dealt with desirre�*s allegations, took place last year behind closed doors. a number of other women also testified. now kat is awaiting the verdict. before, i would describe myself as a model, as a guru. - now i describe myself as a prisoner. the team from bbc eye investigations and bbc news brasil gained a rare court order to interview kat in prison. this is the first time since her arrest that kat is being interviewed. i am one year and a half injail. in realjail with real people that committed real crimes. -

we're talking about people that. killed, like, ten people, 15 people. when i was seeing the people testifying, they were - saying so many lies. so many lies that at one point, i couldn't stop laughing. - i believe maybe i'm here for more 20 days, ten more days. _ because there is no proof, so there is no crime. - there is no way. why is the judge keeping you in prison if you don't deserve to be here? because the people are saying that i am a problem outside, _ that i can take the minds- of the people and change them. people are saying i am a fake guru, | but at the same time they are also| saying that i am so real- and so dangerous that i can take his mind or whoever's mind and change his mind. _ this is written in my paper so i am only talking - what is written in my paper.

isays, "she is a danger to societyl "because she can change people's mind with her words." she can... phew. can you? canl? you tell me, can i? i hope i can. i had a voice that spoke i with me and my whole life i would tell people, "oh, so, the voice. is saying this to you. "the voice is saying that to you. "the voice is saying this." people willjust bend down to me and be like, "oh, my god. - give me some advice, please." like this. very rich people, - very powerful people. she was a...by definition, a master manipulator, although i believe her intent in that manipulation was positive. she knew exactly what she was doing. she was trying to tell the courthouse, "no, it was not my intention." and that she was not a pimp. you can fool them,

but you cannot fool me. i was living in there with you. nobody lived with me. no women lived with me other than my dog. - that is a girl. my cat is a girl. no women live with me. we've seen messages from you inviting young women to live with you. ma'am, if you did not see a message in the federal police, _ you cannot believe this message is from me _ there is no way i send - a message to a person saying, "come to live with me in america. "i'm going to enslave you." 0r, "are you going to work for me?" my house, nobody works. i want to say... so do you think the messages that we've seen from most women... absolutely! ..are fake? absolutely, yes. what about the bank transfers from desirre where she's depositing money into your account? the same! the same thing. you're saying that's completely fake. no! she asked... they never sent you money? what? no. whatever she could use from me, she did. -

but i didn't know. what she was doing. you didn't know she was sending you money? yes, i knew she was sending me money to take ubers. _ and i said yes. some of the transfers were £600. was she taking a 600—pound uber? yeah! she told me that. i i have seen some uber receipts thatl was like $3,000, $4,000 per month. many of the women we spoke to say they are still experiencing post—traumatic stress. in a split second, choosing to hit like and follow had unimaginable consequences. until recently, i still heard her in my head. i was thinking about giving up on life... whimpering: ..about suicide, because i invested my whole life in her. - i had to do therapy. it's been almost 2 to 3 years that i've been doing therapy. and it's just a lot of work that i had to do to be

able to talk about this. ah! uh—uh. how does it make you feel when you're hearing that former

clients are traumatised ? i don't believe it. i have to say they are absolutely i ridiculous and that they need to run back to their parents. why do you think they'd make something like that up? because they want media. because they want to be somebody. they want to talk about it. it's not real. it's not true. i i been working with this for ninel years, and i have 14,000 clients, and i had many people that were very jealous about the money _ iwas making. i charge a lot of money to do it. did you believe in the advice you were giving these women? oh, yeah. i believe 1,000%. i will look in their eyes and i will go to sleep. i and i will wake up in| the morning thinking about the advice i give to them. injail, still, i think— about the advice i give to them. i never, ever was wrong. ever. i don't regret one single word i said, i don't regret. - it's like we are all afraid that whenever she gets out,

she's actually going to do it again. throughout this interview, we've put very serious allegations to you, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, modern slavery. and in response, you've said you are proud of your advice. you've laughed. you've said that they're ridiculous. they're liars. do you take any accountability for any of these allegations? absolutely not. zero. and do you think you deserve to face any punishment orjustice? absolutely not. what i want and i need isjustice. what i want to do - with my life isjustice. i don't deserve to be here. i didn't deserve to be here, | not even one day in my life. you choose to believe whatever you choose to believe. - i can tell you i'm jesus, and you can see jesus. or you can see the devil. that's it.

thank you very much. i didn't like her much. i'm not fully recovered yet. i've had a challenging year. i was sexually exploited, enslaved and imprisoned. i hope my story serves as a warning.

the rise of social media has absolutely created almost like a portal or an avenue for human trafficking. it has developed just a huge communication network for human trafficking, in general. and it'sjust...so much easier to groom individuals and victims. i feel better because i know she's injail. and my hope is that the more i talk about it and more victims are going to come out and tell their stories, go to the police, go to the authorities so people see that this is a really criminal and serious case. it's notjust some instagram drama, as some people might have thought.

hello. it's a slightly cooler, fresher feeling day than we've seen of late across the southern half of the uk. some hazy sunshine around, but further north a different picture. this is the rainfall we're expecting to accumulate over the next couple of days. it's looking particularly wet for the west of scotland and northern ireland as well, whereas further south, barely a drop of rain in the forecast for many of us. now, for the rest of today we're looking at some spells of hazy sunshine in the south, but wet and windy weather in the north west, so some big contrasts in our weather out there. the rain this afternoon will become more persistent across northern ireland, western scotland as well. some brightness for the north east of scotland. further south, across the bulk of england and wales, it's looking dry. hazy sunshine in the south and east, and temperatures between about 15 in the north to 23 in the south, won't feel as humid as it has done recently.

through this evening and tonight turns windy, especially across the west of scotland. we've got that rain continuing for northern ireland and scotland, but it's dry for the bulk of england and wales, with lows between about 12 to 16 degrees first thing tomorrow. so into monday then low pressure sits to the north west of the uk. that's going to push this weather front in across scotland and northern ireland. but towards the east of the front we've got the winds coming in from a south or southwesterly direction. so it's going to feel quite warm, quite humid again, especially in the south and the east. so a bit more sunshine for england and wales than we've got out there today. it is looking wet for northern ireland, although the rain will ease, but for the west of scotland could be up to 75mm of rain, so localised flooding possible. a little bit warmer than today, 20 to 26 for most of us. and then as we move through monday night into tuesday, eventually that front gets its move on, heading across england and wales, but tending to peter out as it does so. still a little bit of light rain left on that across the south east and east anglia into tuesday, but for the rest of the uk, sunny spells, few blustery showers, most of them in the northwest, and temperatures between 15 to 25 north to south.

a similar day on wednesday. we'll lose that front, so we're left with a westerly airflow, low pressure and this frontal system in the northwest bringing more persistent wet and windy weather across the west of scotland, tending to turn more showery later on. but for many of us it's looking dry. lighter winds further south and temperatures fairly typical of the time of year between about 15 to 23 degrees further ahead into next week, then high pressure, keeping things mostly dry and fairly warm towards the south. there will be some showery rain at times though further north. bye for now. live from london, this is bbc news.

here in the uk, police say they're ready to deploy thousands more officers to contain riots across the country, after more than 100 were arrested on saturday. those people who have been involved in this disorder over the last few days will be found by the police, will be arrested, will be taken through the courts. we want to make it very clear — there are penalties, there are consequences. at least 19 people are killed in bangladesh as clashes erupt between police and anti—government protesters. it's day 9 of the paris olympic games, 20 gold medals up for grab today, and the men's100—metre final this evening. we start here in the uk, where senior police leaders have

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