The mother of a slain United States aid worker became emotional as she described in court on Tuesday how she and her husband pleaded for mercy in a video message to the head of ISIS. In her testimony during the trial of former British national El Shafee Elsheikh, 33 - an accused ISIS terrorist - Marsha Mueller recounted how she and her husband tried for years to save their daughter, Kayla, who had been kidnapped by the terrorist group while she was on a trip with her boyfriend to the Syrian city of Aleppo in August 2013.Kayla was later forced to marry ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who raped her. She was then murdered in February 2015 at the age of 26.
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