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ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi ‘Repeatedly Raped’ 26-Year-Old Kayla Mueller

August 15, 2015

The parents of American aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was reported dead earlier this year, have revealed that their 26-year-old daughter was repeatedly raped by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of Baghdadi. We were told that in June by the government,” said Kayla’s parents, Carla and Marsha Mueller, to ABC News. The FBI told the family that Kayla had been tortured since the beginning of her captivity in 2013. According to ABC News, Al-Baghdadi, the self-declared Caliph of the Islamic State, had personally taken Kayla to be imprisoned inside the home of another ISIS leader known as Abu Sayyaf. Officials told ABC News that Al-Baghdadi would regularly visit Abu Sayyaf’s compound, repeatedly sexually assaulting Kayla. Abu Sayyaf was killed in May 2015 by US Special Forces, three months after ISIS had claimed Kayla’s death in Jordanian airstrikes. Abu Sayyaf’s wife, Umm Sayyaf, was captured and handed over to Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq last week to face trial for allegedly enslaving young Yazidi women. The young Yazidi women had been discovered inside Abu Sayyaf’s compound at the time of…


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