Why US Hostage Raped By ISIS Leader Refused To Escape.

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A teenage girl, who had also been held by ISIS, revealed the conditions of Kayla Mueller's captivity to US officials.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.

"They told us that he married her, and we all understand what that means," the victim’s father, Carl Mueller, told The Associated Press. Ms. Mueller, whose death was reported in February, would have turned 27 on Friday. 

"Kayla did not marry this man,” added her mother, Marsha Mueller. “He took her to his room and he abused her and she came back crying."