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A 12-year-old who was abused and tortured while held captive before her escape entered the United States as an unaccompanied minor from Honduras.

A U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) official told Fox News that the girl came into the U.S. under the Obama administration in June 2014.

The girl was released to a distant uncle while her mother was living in Honduras. The uncle allegedly began sexually abusing the child before she was taken in by two sisters — Brenda Garcia, 38, and Tania Garcia, 37, Montgomery County residents who allegedly continued the abuse.

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The girl said the sisters beat her, starved her, and

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