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ISIS leader repeatedly raped U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller 01:35

WASHINGTON -- American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Republic of iraq and Syria (ISIS), U.Southward. intelligence officials told her family in June.

"They told the states that he married her, and we all empathise what that means," Carl Mueller, Kayla'due south father, told The Associated Press on Friday, which would have been his daughter'south 27th altogether. Her death was reported in February.

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Her mother, Marsha Mueller, added, "Kayla did not marry this homo. He took her to his room and he abused her and she came dorsum crying."

The news is but the latest in a litany of horrors perpetrated by ISIS, which has beheaded, burned and crucified male captives while passing around women as sexual activity slaves.

Mueller was held for a time by ISIS financier Abu Sayyaf and his married woman, known equally Umm Sayyaf. Al-Baghdadi took Mueller every bit a "wife," repeatedly raping her when he visited, according to a Yazidi teenager who was held with Mueller and escaped in October 2014.

The 14-year-old made her style to Iraqi Kurdistan, where she talked to U.S. commandos in November 2014. Intelligence agencies corroborated her account and American officials passed information technology on to her parents in June.

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Umm Sayyaf confirmed that al-Baghdadi had "endemic" Kayla during Umm Sayyaf's lengthy American interrogation in Iraq, the Muellers said they were told by American officials.

A senior administration official confirmed to CBS News senior White House contributor Major Garrett the details of the study and what the Mueller family had been told and data gathered.

Abu Sayyaf was killed in a Delta Force raid of his Syrian compound in June, which resulted in a treasure trove of intelligence nearly ISIS. Umm Sayyaf has been turned over to the Iraqi Kurds for trial.

The Muellers have been told she tin be expected to serve a long prison sentence, said a family unit spokeswoman, Emily Lenzner.

Mueller was held with three other women, all Yazidis, the Muellers were told. All were sexually abused. When al-Baghdadi visited, he would take Mueller to his room, the witness told American officials. She would tell her fellow captives - sometimes tearfully - what had happened.

"Kayla tried to protect these young girls," her mother said. "She was similar a mother effigy to them."

When the teenaged Yazidi girl escaped with her sister, she asked Mueller to back-trail her, the parents were told, merely Kayla refused, worrying that her obvious Western appearance would lead to their capture.

By the fourth dimension the Yadizi escapee reported the state of affairs to Delta Strength commandos in Iraq, Kayla had been moved, her parents were told.

U.S. intelligence officials constitute information on Sayyaf'south calculator indicating that Mueller, who spoke some Arabic, had been searching for information about fertility to help Umm Sayyaf, who was trying to become pregnant, according to two U.Due south. officials who refused to be quoted because the information is classified.

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Mueller, from Prescott, Arizona, was taken hostage with her Syrian boyfriend, Omar Alkhani, in August 2013 later on leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria, where he had been hired to set up the Cyberspace service for the hospital.

Mueller had begged him to let her tag along because she wanted to practise relief work in the state of war-ravaged country.

Alkhani was released afterward two months, having been beaten.

ISIS claimed Mueller was killed in a Jordanian air strike about Raqqah, the grouping's cocky-declared capital in Syria. U.South. officials confirmed the death merely not the circumstances.

President Obama said in interviews after Mueller's death that at that place had been attempts past special operations forces to find and free American hostages, including a major functioning in July that was focused on Mueller and others.

"I deployed an entire operation -- at significant hazard -- to rescue non only her only the other individuals who had been held, and probably missed them by a day or two," the president said.