Overview
- Brazil’s Labor Court accepted the Ministério Público do Trabalho’s complaint, opening a civil labor case parallel to ongoing criminal proceedings, while both influencers remain in preventive detention since August 15 in João Pessoa.
- The MPT alleges a lucrative trafficking and exploitation scheme with dozens of victims, including children and adolescents.
- Prosecutors detail coercive conditions such as family isolation, confiscated phones, restricted movement, rigid routines with sleep deprivation, unpaid work, loss of autonomy, psychological coercion, and interference in gender identity and sexual orientation.
- The case also alleges sexualized exposure of adolescents on social media, attendance at age-inappropriate venues, monetization of images, and aesthetic procedures intended to boost sexual appeal.
- The MPT requested immediate psychological, medical, and social assistance for alleged victims, proposed limits on parental conduct while noting possible criminal liability for guardians, and the defense denies the accusations and challenges the MPT’s authority to bring the case.