ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Sexually Abused American Hostage Kayla Mueller, Officials Say. (NBC).
Before her death earlier this year, American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly raped by the top leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to counter-terrorism officials.
Mueller's family confirmed to ABC News that government officials have
told them that their daughter, who would have turned 27 today, was the
victim of repeated sexual assaults by al-Baghdadi.
"We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of
al-Baghdadi. We were told that in June by the government," Kayla's
parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, told ABC News today.
Al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi who calls himself "Caliph" as ruler of the Islamic
State, personally brought the enslaved 26-year-old humanitarian aid
worker from Prescott, Arizona, to be imprisoned inside the home of Abu
Sayyaf, a Tunisian in charge of oil and gas revenue for the group,
counter-terrorism officials have told ABC News over the past several
months.
"Baghdadi was at the house of Sayyaf. He delivered Kayla Mueller, alive
and in person," one of several counter-terrorism officials briefed on
the case told ABC News.
The top terror leader later regularly visited the compound to meet with
Sayyaf and to repeatedly sexually assault Mueller, officials said.
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