A 12-year-old girl, who endured severe abuse and torture before managing to escape, originally entered the United States as an unaccompanied minor from Honduras.
An official from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services informed Fox News that the young girl arrived in the U.S. during the Obama administration, specifically in June 2014.
After her arrival, the girl was placed in the care of a distant uncle, while her mother remained in Honduras. It is alleged that the uncle began sexually abusing her. Subsequently, she was taken in by two sisters, Brenda Garcia, 38, and Tania Garcia, 37, who reside in Montgomery County. The sisters are accused of continuing the abuse.
Brenda Garcia and Tania Garcia have been charged in connection with the abuse of the young girl from Honduras. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice)
The girl reported that the sisters subjected her to physical beatings, starvation, and restraint. Court documents reveal that she was often bound with zip ties at night and, on occasions, tied to a chair as punishment for “stealing food.”
In her statements to the police, she recounted that Brenda took nude photographs of her and strangled her, at one point telling her to “just die already.”
The girl told detectives she was hit with cables and a belt with a spike on it until she bled. Her mattress was taken away, and she was only allowed to sleep on a tablecloth on the floor while restrained, according to court documents.
The girl eventually escaped her restraints on Sept. 28. She was restrained with zip-ties to a small table and would be beaten whenever she urinated herself while sleeping, court documents state.
Brenda Garcia also allegedly took photos and video of the girl as she showered and would call her names, prosecutors said.
The sisters face charges including felony injury to a child, unlawful restraint, and invasive visual recording.
President Donald Trump has blamed the Biden administration for allowing unaccompanied children to cross the border without a tougher vetting process for sponsors.
“Hundreds of thousands were lost through Biden and the Biden administration,” he said last week. “We are getting a lot of them back, but they’re either dead, slaves, or captured. But think about it — hundreds of thousands we’re talking about — and they came in through the border, sold, bargained for. This was all Biden. Meaning Biden and Obama — the same mentality.”
During the Obama administration in 2014, there was a massive surge in unaccompanied children.
Between 2013 and 2014, the number of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border increased nearly 80%, from 38,759 in fiscal year 2013 to 68,541 in fiscal year 2014.
