UNITED STATES
NBC News
by LEXI RUDOLPH and JON SCHUPPE
Kayla Mueller, the American aid worker who died while being held captive by ISIS, was repeatedly raped by the terror group’s leader in Syria, her family confirmed Friday.
U.S. officials told the family was told in June of the assaults by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a representative of Mueller’s family told NBC News.
The sexual assaults are the latest outrage by ISIS, which has published graphic videos showing the beheading of captives, among other atrocities. Mueller, a 26-year-old from Prescott, Arizona, was captured by the terror group in Syria in August 2013 and in February the U.S. confirmed she died in ISIS captivity.
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