Islamic State Leader ‘Raped’ American Hostage

American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, according to accounts provided to U.S. intelligence officials. The news is but the latest in a litany of horrors perpetrated by the Islamic State group, which has beheaded, burned and crucified male captives while passing around women as sex slaves. Mueller, whose death was reported in February, was held for a time by Islamic State financier Abu Sayyaf and his wife, known as Umm Sayyaf. Al-Baghdadi took Mueller as a “wife,” repeatedly raping her when he visited, according to a Yazidi teenager who was held with Mueller and escaped.

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, to ABC News

The new revelations about Mueller’s long ordeal – which involved torture since the beginning of her one-and-a-half years of captivity, her family has been told by the FBI – shatter rumors spread by some officials that she had cooperated or was a willing spouse, which has deeply upset her family and many inside her case. A U.S. official confirmed the account, first reported by London’s Independent newspaper. Abu Sayyaf was killed in a Delta Force raid of his Syrian compound in June, which resulted in a treasure trove of intelligence about the Islamic State group. Umm Sayyaf gave extensive information to American interrogators and has been turned over to the Iraqi Kurds for trial. The Muellers have been told she can be expected to serve a long prison sentence, Lenzner said.

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