A teenage Brazilian social media star alleged that other influencers who invited her to a party drugged and sexually assaulted her on a farm in Brazil.
After going to a party in São Paulo towards the end of January, Geovana Pontes, a 19-year-old from Paraná, Brazil, ended up with a split lip and blood marks on her face.
According to the young woman, who spoke to O Globo Brazil, she was coerced into having sex with four men at the influencer event and her drink was tainted.
After drinking the cocktail, Pontes apparently passed out and felt confused. She described feeling strange and unable to control her body while the men undressed her.
“There were seven or eight and they started recording me in the pool, taking off my bikini,” she told the local outlet.
“I was abused by four men. I believe they put something in the drink to make me different. There are things I don’t remember at all. Everyone drank and I was the only one left like that.”The incident was captured in horrific images that the Brazilian posted to Instagram. They included her in a blue blouse with bloodstains, her mouth swollen and bloody, and dried blood that had trickled down her neck and chin.
Pontes told her lawyer that she reported being attacked to the police. They questioned her for six hours. She also accused the person of sexually assaulting her.
The young lady, who has around 250,000 Instagram followers, claimed that she was threatened by other partygoers and decided not to report the rape at first, especially after sharing the unsettling images.
“They started threatening me, if I posted more something would happen to me,” she told O Globo.
Pontes and her friend received an invitation to the party on January 25 and the man who extended the invitation paid for their transportation from Paraná to São Paulo so they could spend the weekend there.
The 19-year-old claimed that in addition to her buddy, there were eight guys there, including children.
When they got to the fancy apartment, her friend who wasn’t named fell asleep quickly, and that’s when she started to feel strange.
But it was her friend who pulled the sobbing Pontes out of the water.
Pontes’ lawyer Igor José Ogar said the police “did not want to register” the sexual assault at first.
“It is absurd that a police station does not want to receive a crime of such a serious nature. She stayed there for six hours,” he told O Globo.
São Paulo Civil Police said Wednesday that the case is under investigation by the Igaratá Police Station and that “police requests were issued.”
“Those involved are being identified by the team to be qualified and summoned. Likewise, the victims will be heard to contribute to clarifying the facts. The investigations continue under secrecy,” it said, according to O Globo.
