ANGELIQUE Robledo discovered the grueling truth about a woman she bonded with over being pregnant teenagers together in 2010.
Unfortunately, her so-called friend, Kassandra Toruga, lied about her pregnancy and planned to cut Robledo open herself to steal her baby from the womb – and Robledo now says her appearance on Dr. Phil regarding the situation only furthered her trauma.
While the situation happened years ago, Robledo decided to share her trauma as a way to raise awareness about scenarios like hers – because she says they occur more than one would think.
She opened up about the heartwrenching experience she had in six-part video series in January.
“My name is Angelique Robledo and I am a survivor.
“I’ve healed off on doing this video for a very long time.
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“I realized that people have a lot of questions and I’m ready to answer because I’m ready,” she stated at the beginning of her series.
“When I was nine months pregnant, a woman came to my house and plotted to kill me and perform a C-section on my body to take my baby.”
She went onto explain that she had known Toruga for a few months thanks to a mutual friend.
She was under the impression that she was pregnant as well, and they bonded over being teen moms who were seniors in high school.
Robledo said that one day, Toruga came to her house with supposed baby presents and stayed all day long, despite her attempts to get her to leave.
Eventually, they went to Robledo’s room to look at the gifts.
“She had me turn around, close my eyes, and count to three,” Robledo recalled.
Robledo said as her friend counted to three, she got a “really, really strong feeling” that something bad was going to happen.
So, she turned around and “startled” Toruga, who apparently quickly put what she would later find out to be knives back in her bag.
While Robledo admitted she had a bad feeling Toruga was trying to hurt her, she had no physical proof and decided to “play along” until her mother returned home, which would be in 30 minutes.
As Toruga was trying to buy herself time, a fire started in Robledo’s closet – for which fire marshalls would later blame Toruga.
Robledo claimed in the third video in her series that she knew what was going on at this point but once again had no solid evidence.
That was until the cops and fire department showed up at her house and she had them check Toruga’s bag.
Unsurprisingly for Robledo, there were two butcher knives in the bag along with scissors, baby clothes, and diapers with no present in sight, according to CBS News.
Robledo then claimed that after a year of Toruga being in jail, she was called by the prosecution center and was tricked into accepting a plea bargain, as they told her the police did not read Toruga her rights before her confession, so a trial would not end well.
In the end, Robledo decided to have Toruga sent to a mental institution for seven and a half years.
“I got to the sentencing. I speak.
“I had a long letter that I wrote that I said to her in court and she just stared at me, no remorse,” Robledo stated.
And while one can only try to comprehend the heaviness of the weight of the trauma Robledo must feel, the one person she thought would help made it even worse.
She claimed in a January video that she went on Dr. Phil thinking she could raise awareness about her situation.
“I was asked to come on the show to spread awareness, let other mother/mother to be know that things like this happen … None of this was ever discussed.
“I was told I would be able to tell my story & that’s it,” she wrote over a clip of her episode.
Instead, Dr. Phil recounted all the warning signs that Robledo chose to ignore about Toruga, instead of offering her sympathy.
Robledo noted that she was “completely blindsided” by that portion of the segment.
She continued: “I’m so annoyed [and] embarrassed at this point … you’ll hear me laugh but I can promise you that laugh is out of anger because all I want to do is scream but I’m on national television so I can’t.”
She went on to say that she tried to defend herself, but most of that was edited out of the show.
She concluded: “All Dr. Phil did was make me feel more alone then I have ever felt before … my PTSD suffered more after this.”
Robledo’s video garnered thousands of comments, mostly from sympathizers.
“I lost so much respect for you… NOBODY is going to expect to get murderded and the condescending questions you asked and the WAY you asked,” one viewer wrote, mentioning Dr. Phil’s handle.
“His tone was definitely victim blaming and condescending,” another added.
“Dr Phil is constantly using people’s horrible moments for his own gain,” a third person slammed.
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“He twists and turns everyone’s stories.”
The Sun has reached out to Jerry J. Sharell, vice president of communications for Dr. Phil, via email for a comment on the claims.
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