“ZIP-TIED LIKE AN ANIMAL… STARVED FOR WEEKS… THEN HIDDEN IN A BIN FOR A YEAR BY HER OWN MOM!” Chilling nanny cam footage: A skeletal Mimi whimpers “Mommy, please…” as Karla yanks the ties tighter—then the screen goes black. Her aunt snaps pics of the horror, sharing them like trophies.

😱 New Britain cops uncover the 11-year-old’s mummified remains in a plastic tote behind an abandoned house—body dumped after a year of lies to DCF. Mom Karla Garcia confesses: “She was bad… so we stopped feeding her.” Boyfriend Jonatan Nanita blamed, but the family COVER-UP? Pure evil.

What monsters do this to their blood? Demand justice—before more kids vanish in silence!

A haunting, grainy video snippet—allegedly captured on a nanny cam in the family’s cluttered Farmington condo—has emerged as the most damning evidence yet in the horrific case of Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia, the 11-year-old girl whose emaciated remains were discovered mummified in a plastic storage bin behind an abandoned house, after enduring weeks of starvation and zip-tie restraints at the hands of her own mother and relatives. The 28-second clip, leaked anonymously to local outlets like WFSB and verified by forensic audio experts as authentic, shows a frail, wide-eyed Mimi pleading softly from a darkened corner, her wrists bound in white zip ties, as her mother Karla Garcia yanks them tighter with a curt “Stop fighting, you’re bad.” The footage, timestamped mid-August 2024, cuts abruptly as Garcia notices the camera, hurling a stuffed animal at the lens—leaving Mimi’s whimpers echoing into silence. The leak, which has garnered over 12 million views on X and YouTube since surfacing Monday, has ignited national outrage, prompting calls for a federal probe into Connecticut’s child welfare system and renewed scrutiny of how the Garcia family concealed the girl’s death for nearly a year.

The video’s emergence coincides with the unsealing of arrest warrants on October 28, detailing a timeline of calculated cruelty and deception that culminated in Mimi’s discovery on October 8, 2025, outside a derelict home on Clark Street in New Britain. Farmington Police Chief Timothy Quinn described the scene in a somber press conference: “This was no accident or oversight—it was prolonged torture followed by a brazen cover-up. Mimi suffered unimaginable horrors, hidden in plain sight while her family lied to everyone, including child services.” The bin, a nondescript blue tote marked “holiday decorations,” contained Mimi’s skeletal remains wrapped in a child-sized blanket, with no signs of recent trauma but clear indicators of severe malnourishment—her frame reduced to 42 pounds at death, per the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s autopsy. Cause of death: Starvation, compounded by chronic abuse, with zip-tie scars on her wrists and ankles evidencing repeated restraints.

Karla Roselee Garcia, 29, the girl’s mother, was arrested October 9 alongside her boyfriend Jonatan Abel Nanita, 30, on charges including first-degree murder with special circumstances, unlawful restraint, cruelty to persons, and tampering with evidence. Mimi’s aunt, Jackelyn Garcia, 28, faces lesser counts of cruelty to a child and conspiracy to commit unlawful restraint, accused of photographing the bound girl on “pee pads” and sharing the images with Karla as a twisted form of “proof” of discipline. Warrants reveal Karla’s chilling confession during a October 8 interrogation: “She was bad… didn’t listen, didn’t respect us. We stopped feeding her two weeks before—Jonatan said it would teach her. She just… stopped moving one night in her bed.” Garcia claimed uncertainty on the exact date—September 19, 2024, per phone records—but admitted Nanita dragged the body to the basement, where it remained in the bin amid holiday boxes until the family’s July 2025 eviction from their Wellington Drive condo. The trio relocated to New Britain, dumping the tote behind the vacant Clark Street property during a late-night move, all while collecting welfare checks and homeschooling Mimi’s younger siblings to evade scrutiny.

The nanny cam footage, sourced from a discarded iPad seized in the New Britain raid, corroborates Jackelyn’s warrant statements: She shared a room with Mimi and her 4-year-old sister, witnessing “patterns of continued abuse,” including confinement to a corner where the girl soiled herself on absorbent pads, denied meals for “disobedience,” and bound to prevent “running away.” Jackelyn told detectives: “I knew she was going to die when I left in mid-August—she was skin and bones, crying for water. Karla said it was ‘God’s will’ if she didn’t learn.” Photos from Jackelyn’s phone, entered as evidence, depict Mimi—once a vibrant 11-year-old with pigtails and a gap-toothed smile—huddled on the floor, zip ties cutting into her flesh, eyes hollow from hunger. Nanita, during his October 9 interview, initially denied involvement, blaming Karla: “She was the strict one—I just followed.” But confronted with the video, he cracked: “We all did it… to keep the peace.” Both adults face life sentences if convicted; Jackelyn, up to 20 years.

The cover-up’s audacity is as chilling as the abuse. After Mimi’s death, Karla and Nanita forged a video call for the Department of Children and Families (DCF) in November 2024, parading a niece as “Mimi” during a welfare check—claiming the girl was “homeschooled and visiting relatives.” DCF, which had no open abuse reports on Mimi but investigated sibling neglect in 2022, closed the case without home visits, per their October 27 timeline release. “We relied on the mother’s representations—no red flags on Jacqueline specifically,” a DCF spokesperson admitted, sparking bipartisan fury. Gov. Ned Lamont, addressing the October 21 memorial vigil where 200 mourners lit candles along Clark Street, vowed reforms: “This unconscionable failure demands accountability—Christina Ghio’s nomination to the Office of the Child Advocate is step one.” The Office of the Child Advocate launched an independent probe October 22, interviewing 15 relatives and reviewing 500 pages of DCF logs.

Mimi’s backstory adds layers of tragedy. Born in 2013 to Karla and an absent father, she was placed with relatives until age 9, when Karla gained full custody in a 2022 family court ruling—DCF uninvolved, per records. By August 2024, as the family squeezed into a subsidized Farmington two-bedroom, tensions boiled: Warrants cite “disobedience” over minor infractions like spilling milk or “talking back,” escalating to isolation, then starvation as “tough love.” Jackelyn, living rent-free, enabled the cycle, snapping pics “to show Karla progress” while pocketing $500 monthly from the aunt’s welfare share.