By DAVE COLLINS

An 11-year-old Connecticut girl was not given food in the two weeks leading up to her death last year and had often been restrained with zip ties, police say.

Her remains were found inside a plastic bin last month. A few months after her death, another child impersonated her during a video call with the state child welfare agency, court records reveal.

Stunning details of Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia’s death have emerged in recent weeks with the release of arrest and search warrants, alleging severe abuse and an attempted cover-up. The chief medical examiner’s office last week issued an official determination that she died of “fatal child abuse with starvation.”

“No child should ever have to endure such suffering,” Paul Melanson, public safety director in Hartford

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