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Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 1: In Las Vegas, a man was sentenced to life in

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Speaker 1: prison with the possibility of parole after twenty two years,

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Speaker 1: for the murder of a toddler. Clark County District Court

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Speaker 1: Judge Jacqueline Bluth handed down consecutive sentences to thirty one

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Speaker 1: year old Rail Roads for first degree murder and assault

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Speaker 1: on a vulnerable individual. The murder charge carries a twenty

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Speaker 1: year term, while the assault charge adds an additional two years.

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Speaker 1: Rhodes confessed to killing two year old Amari Nicholson, the

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Speaker 1: son of his girlfriend. During the sentencing, Rhodes expressed his

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Speaker 1: feelings of unfairness regarding the charges against him, even though

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Speaker 1: he admitted to killing the toddler because he wet himself.

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Speaker 1: Judge Bluff acknowledged Rhod's difficult background, but emphasized that the

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Speaker 1: actions he took against a young child were unjustifiable, saying, quote,

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Speaker 1: there is nothing that child could have done that would

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Speaker 1: have ever done deserved what you did to him. There

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Speaker 1: is nothing that that child could have done that would

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Speaker 1: have ever deserved what we did to Rhodes's attorney, Michael

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Speaker 1: Costillo requested that the sentences run concurrently, citing Rhodes's struggle

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Speaker 1: with mental health and substance abuse. Prosecutor Pam Workley highlighted

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Speaker 1: Rhodes's history of violent crimes. In a previous confession to

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Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, Rhodes admitted to killing young

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Speaker 1: Amari at the Emerald Suites near the Las Vegas Strip

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Speaker 1: while the boy's mother was away. According to detectives, Rhoades

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Speaker 1: stated that after the child had an accident in his pants,

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Speaker 1: he struck the child three to four times with his fist,

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Speaker 1: causing the boy to turn blue and stop breathing. Initially,

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Speaker 1: Rhodes claimed that a woman who was a family member

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Speaker 1: had taken the child, which led to a community wide

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Speaker 1: search lasting nearly a week. He later confessed to investigators

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Speaker 1: that he buried the boy near the Emerald Suites. This

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Speaker 1: is reported by eight News investigators. Amari's body was later

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Speaker 1: found poor Crime and Justice News. After this, victims of

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Speaker 1: an Instagram con artist have come forward to share their

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Speaker 1: horrific experiences of being lured to the United States only

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Speaker 1: to find themselves enslaved and cohersed into prostitution by a

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Speaker 1: money driven spiritualist Kat Torres, a Brazilian wellness influencer and

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Speaker 1: self proclaimed spiritual life coach, has been sentenced to eight

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Speaker 1: years in prison for human trafficking and slavery after she

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Speaker 1: deceived multiple women into moving to Texas and then forced

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Speaker 1: them into sex work. Known as the Master Manipulator by

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Speaker 1: those familiar with her, cat who previously claimed to have

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Speaker 1: a romantic fling with Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, was infamous

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Speaker 1: for her obsession with witchcraft and her self styled image

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Speaker 1: as a spiritual savior, making grandiose claims, even likening herself

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Speaker 1: to Jesus Christ. Growing up in a disadvantage area of Brazil,

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Speaker 1: she crafted a narrative of classic rags to riches tales,

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Speaker 1: showcasing an extravagant lifestyle online and presenting herself in a

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Speaker 1: glamorous figure mingled with Hollywood's elites on Instagram, she cultivated

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Speaker 1: lifestyle full of luxury and wellness. However, the truth behind

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Speaker 1: her glamorous facade was far darker, as she compelled some

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Speaker 1: of her devoted followers to work in strip clubs and

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Speaker 1: cater to her every whim without compensation. Kat began to

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Speaker 1: offer life coaching services online, charging one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: dollars for personalized sessions and promising to help clients achieve

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Speaker 1: their dreams through business advice, relationship guidance, and spiritual support. Yet,

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Speaker 1: beneath her meticulously crafted Instagram presence lay a day seitful

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Speaker 1: individual who subjected her clients to various forms of exploitation,

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Speaker 1: including sexual abuse, enslavement, and even three documented cases of

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Speaker 1: human trafficking that triggered a nationwide FBI investigation. This ultimately

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Speaker 1: led to her arrest and subsequent conviction as a serial swindler,

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Speaker 1: resulting in an eight year prison sentence in Brazil for

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Speaker 1: her crimes of human trafficking and slavery. Police say there

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Speaker 1: is far more into this story and new investigations are underway.

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