A 12-year-old girl in Connecticut was abused and killed by her own mother, who teamed up with her boyfriend to hide and stow away her body for roughly a year in a "plastic storage bin" before dumping it at an abandoned house, cops say. The girl's aunt has also been accused of taking part in the alleged abuse .

Karla Garcia, 29, is accused of murdering her daughter, Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres, with her boyfriend Jonatan Nanita sometime in the fall of 2024, according to local police officials, who announced her arrest on Monday night.

Torres, who was homeschooled, allegedly suffered "prolonged physical abuse and malnourishment prior to her death" and is believed to have been killed in the town of Farmington. Cops say Garcia and Nanita kept the youngster's decomposing body "in the family's ba

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