A 12-year-old girl, subjected to abuse and torment while held hostage, managed to flee her captors and was discovered to have entered the United States alone from Honduras.

According to an official from U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS), the girl arrived in the U.S. during the Obama administration, specifically in June 2014, as reported by Fox News.

Initially entrusted to a distant uncle, while her mother remained in Honduras, the girl allegedly faced sexual abuse from him. Subsequently, she was taken in by two sisters, Brenda Garcia, aged 38, and Tania Garcia, aged 37, who reside in Montgomery County, and reportedly continued the cycle of abuse.

Charges have been filed against Brenda and Tania Garcia for their alleged mistreatment of the young girl from Honduras. (Source: Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

The victim recounted how the sisters subjected her to beatings, starvation, and confinement. Court documents reveal she was restrained with zip ties at night and occasionally tied to a chair as punishment for “stealing food.”

She also told police that Brenda took nude photos of her and wrapped her hands around her neck, strangling her while saying, “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. 

Brend Garcia also allegedly took photos 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.

Former 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.