Abu Bakr-al Baghdadi, the leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS), had repeatedly raped American hostage Kayla Mueller during her 1.5 years in captivity, US intelligence officials told her family in June.
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As Western Journalism reported in February, 26-year-old Arizona native Kayla Mueller traveled to the Middle East as a humanitarian aid worker before she was captured by Islamic State terrorists in 2013. Among them, is the story of a US aid worker Kayla Mueller from Arizona who after being abducted in 2013 by the group was raped repeatedly by the chief of IS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
US officials told media their information about al-Baghdadi’s direct role in the imprisonment and sexual abuse of Mueller was drawn from several sources, including interviews with two teenage Yazidi girls who had also been held as sex slaves in Sayyaf’s compound, and the interrogation of Sayyaf’s wife Umm Sayyaf.
On multiple occasions, al-Baghdadi returned to the home where Mueller was imprisoned to sexually assault her, the officials told ABC News.
But as I say, apart from the rank of her tormentor, Mueller’s experience wasn’t all that different from what thousands of women inside the caliphate have endured.
During her short life, Mueller worked with more than a dozen different nonprofits, including Amnesty worldwide, America’s Promise, the African Refugees Development Center, and Big Brothers Big Sisters for America.
Marsha Mueller said her daughter was a protector to the younger Yazidi girls. Sayyaf was killed in a May raid on his compound and his wife was apprehended. U.S. officials confirmed the death but not circumstances. ISIS claimed in a public statement that she had been killed in an airstrike by Jordanian aircraft on a building in Syria. She would have been 26 at the time of her death.
The caliph is said to have regularly visited the house to both speak to Sayyaf and rape Kayla.
“The family is so exhausted at this point, they need some time”, Lenzner said.
About a year after she was held hostage, Mueller wrote a letter to her family, saying she was “completely unharmed + healthy (put on weight in fact); I have been treated w/ the utmost respect + kindness”.
ISIS considers these non-Muslim women to be inhuman-infidels-and therefore born to be enslaved under Islamic Sharia law.
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Though this is the first time that the report has been let out by Federal agencies, reports suggest that her family was informed about the fact a few months ago.
