The mother of an 11-year-old girl whose remains were found outside a New Britain home earlier this month allegedly admitted to investigators that the child was regularly restrained with zip ties as a punishment and that she stopped feeding her in the weeks leading up to her death, court documents show.

Karla Garcia, 29, spoke to detectives on Oct. 8, the same day Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres’ body was found in an advanced state of decomposition outside a boarded up home on Clark Street, as well as the following day, according to a search warrant investigators used to seize her cell phone.

During the interviews, she allegedly told police that Jacqueline would regularly be restrained with zip ties if she misbehaved, the warrant said. Garcia allegedly admitted she and her boyfriend, 30-year-o

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