A 19-year-old Brazilian social media influencer is seeking justice after she claims she was drugged, beaten and raped by a group of male influencers at a party.
A photo posted by Geovana Pontes to her approximately 250,000 Instagram followers on January 29 shows her face covered in blood, with a caption in Portuguese calling for justice: “Justica!!!”
This was reported by the Brazilian news agency Record TV. incident The incident is said to have occurred in the city of Igalata, São Paulo state.
Pontes told police that the men had invited her to a party at the farm and that she was accompanied by a friend who was allegedly attacked by the men.
“The influencer also said she was drugged and forced to have sex with at least three boys at the farm,” the newspaper reported in Portuguese.
The young woman claimed that the men locked her and her friend in a room before sexually assaulting them.
“There was no food, no signal, nothing. We couldn’t even get out. No one came into the house, no one left the house,” she told Record TV.
Pontes went on to describe how one of the men grabbed her by the neck and “punched her in the mouth.”
“At that moment, everything fell backwards for me and the other two were like, ‘Oh, it really hit me.’ That’s it. That’s what you deserve.”
It was then, the teenage influencer said, that she was raped.
“‘I had sex without my consent. I was vulnerable. I didn’t know what was going on,'” she said.
brazil newspaper Oh Globo report Pontes was allegedly drugged and assaulted by a total of four men.
“The young woman said in an interview with GLOBO that she felt unwell after drinking and lost consciousness,” the newspaper said.
São Paulo Civil Police told the newspaper that the incident “is being investigated by the Igalata Police Department.”
“A request has been made by the police and due to new reports of sexual abuse, the Forensic Laboratory (LML) has been requested to conduct another examination,” it said. Oh Globo.
Pontes returned to social media on Tuesday to let his followers know that the process of seeking justice is taking a long time.
“Some people think I’m doing justice,” she wrote. post seen by daily mail. “I am doing my part, but unfortunately justice does not happen overnight.
“What do you want me to do? Beat the judge or the police to solve my case? No way, it’s all a process,” she added.
