After the body of a 12-year-old girl was discovered in a storage bin, Connecticut state officials said she had likely been starved for weeks before her death last fall. Her mother, aunt, and mother’s boyfriend are facing charges as the community comes to terms with the girl’s death.

During a funeral procession Saturday, a horse-drawn carriage brought the body of Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia to a church, NBC Connecticut reported .

“She was happy all the time. Real happy. She liked to play,” Felix Osorio, the girl’s grandfather, previously told the news station . “She was my love. She was everything for me.”

Her remains were found outside an abandoned house in New Britain. She likely died in the fall of 2024 while her family was living in Farmington after being withdrawn from sch

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