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Who is Katie Sorensen? Mom influencer Instagram video scandal explained

On Wednesday, April 26, Katie Sorensen, a “mother force to be reckoned with” from California’s Sonoma Region was seen as at legitimate fault for making a bogus report of a wrongdoing. In December 2020, Katie created a tale about a Latino couple and claimed that they were attempting to snatch her youngsters in the parking garage of a Petaluma Michaels make store, around 40 miles north of San Francisco.

She video-recorded the claim and shared it on Instagram. Petaluma police then, at that point, started a test into the dubious occurrence, however tracked down no crook proof or observers to back up Katie’s story. In April 2021, Katie Sorensen was accused of documenting a bogus report about a supposed snatching endeavor.

The Latino man and the lady were distinguished by neighborhood news sources in Petaluma as Eddie and Sadie Martinez. They were gotten free from any bad behavior by the specialists.

On Thursday, April 27, the lead prosecutor’s office said that Katie’s report to the still up in the air by the court to be misleading and was vehemently denied by the denounced couple. Her cases were likewise gone against by a store observation video got by specialists.

In the now-erased Instagram video, Katie claimed that the Latino couple followed her into the Michaels store and followed her while she shopped with her two youngsters in a buggy. She likewise guaranteed that the couple offered remarks about her kids’ appearance.

Katie added that the man and the lady gave her the “heebie-jeebies” and didn’t have all the earmarks of being “neat and tidy people”. She said that she was incapacitated with dread and was along these lines unfit to express anything to them.

In the video, Katie Sorensen further asserted that the couple followed her out of the store to the parking area and waited close to her buggy while she was putting her youngsters in the vehicle. She guaranteed that she shouted for help, after which the couple drove off. Katie posted two recordings describing her charges, and the two recordings acquired over 4.5 million perspectives on Instagram.

Following the occurrence, Katie documented an endeavored snatching report to the Petaluma police. Specialists, notwithstanding, considered the report to be a dubious conditions case and noticed the irregularities between the data gave in the Instagram video and her record to the officials.

By December 2020, Petaluma police said that they found no proof of a wrongdoing in light of Katie’s claims and shut the case.

Eddie and Sadie Martinez likewise denied Katie’s claims and told the Petaluma Argus-Messenger that they were at the store to purchase Christmas adornments, and they accepted that the force to be reckoned with’s unfounded allegations were racially propelled.

Katie Sorensen was captured in April 2021. Notwithstanding, after various deferrals, her preliminary started on April 18, 2023. She was formally accused of three crime counts of giving misleading data to the police and an investigator on three unique events.

Examiners said that the 31-year-old mother force to be reckoned with was attempting to support her Instagram image at that point and fund-raise by making the endeavored kidnapping claims in her recordings. During the April 2023 preliminary, Katie Sorensen’s legal advisor Charles Dresow supposedly contended that Katie had misconstrued the occasions at the Michaels’ parking garage since she was worried because of the Coronavirus pandemic at that point.

TikToks I made for @NorthBayNews this week (4/24):

Sonoma County Superior Court jurors began deliberating in the case of Katie Sorensen, a former Sonoma resident who falsely accused a Petaluma couple for attempting to kidnap her kids in December 2020. pic.twitter.com/zz5kf06Jie

— Sara Edwards, MMC (@sedwards380) April 28, 2023


Attendants vindicated Katie Sorensen of the initial two counts. Yet, she was viewed as at legitimate fault for the third count, which was connected with a December 14 meeting with the police. She was immediately arrested.

Authorities said that she is as of now being held in the Sonoma District prison. Katie is expected to be condemned in June and is supposed to have to carry out upwards of a half year in jail.

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Almeda Bohannan

Update: 2024-05-03