Two Texas sisters accused of bodily restraining, beating and enslaving a 12-year-old woman – who investigators stated the pair had helped from a earlier abusive state of affairs – have been indicted on federal fees, based on court docket data.
Tania Evette Garcia37, and Brenda Mariana Garcia39, are each charged with one depend of kidnapping and one depend of pressured laborthe U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of Texas introduced in a Monday, February 9, information launch.
Brenda’s federal protection legal professional, Man Lee Womackdidn’t instantly return Us Weekly’s request for remark. A federal protection legal professional was not instantly listed for Tania in court docket data seen by Us on Tuesday, February 10.
The federal case comes after the sisters, each from Conroe, had been first arrested by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Workplace on state fees after deputies stated they responded to a name a couple of 12-year-old who shared that she had been bodily and sexually abused, based on an October 6 information launch shared by the company.
An affidavit in assist of a federal legal criticism reveals alleged particulars of the extreme abuse Tania and Brenda are accused of inflicting on the woman, who was discovered strolling alone, searching for assist, on a road in Splendora, Texas, on September 28, based on investigators.
A witness found the woman “malnourished, injured, and carrying a zip-tie round her wrist” that day, the affidavit says.
The woman informed a Montgomery County deputy that she had simply escaped Brenda and Tania’s dwelling, the place she had been overwhelmed by the sisters for the previous six months, based on the affidavit.
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In a forensic interview, the woman stated that she had been dwelling together with her maternal nice uncle earlier than she was allegedly abused by the sisters, the affidavit says.
In March 2025, the woman informed a household buddy, who was Brenda’s daughter, that her uncle had been sexually abusing her since she was 6 years previous, based on the submitting.
Afterward, Brenda, Brenda’s daughter and Tania labored collectively to “take away (the) woman from her uncle’s family after they obtained photographic proof of the abuse,” the affidavit says.
The woman began dwelling with Brenda and Tania later that month, based on the affidavit.
About two months later, in Might 2025, Brenda took her to satisfy a Harris County deputy to debate the alleged sexual abuse she skilled from her uncle and one other relative, the affidavit says.
Her uncle, based on authorities, is charged with steady sexual assault of a kid in Harris County.
Additional info on his legal case was not instantly obtainable. It was not instantly clear whether or not he had retained an legal professional.
After Brenda took the woman to talk with a deputy in Might 2025, the woman stated Brenda hit her “for the primary time as a result of, based on Brenda GARCIA, (her) statements to the officer had been ‘contradictory,’” the affidavit says.
Following the woman’s report, Brenda allegedly informed a Baby Protecting Companies caseworker that the woman was “despatched again to Honduras,” the place the woman’s mom lived, based on the affidavit.
Brenda “then informed (the woman) that now nobody can be in search of her anymore,” the affidavit says.
The woman informed investigators that she was then repeatedly abused by Brenda and her sister over the following a number of months, and was barely given meals to eat, based on the submitting.
She “reported that she was overwhelmed with cords, laptop computer chargers, a cane, and sticks by each Brenda and Tania,” who’re accused of forcing her “to strip bare throughout most of the beatings.”
The sisters are accused of filming and taking images of the abuse.
The woman additionally shared with investigators that she was routinely zip-tied and needed to do intensive family chores as a way of punishment, based on the affidavit.
“In brief, Brenda and Tania GARCIA handled (her) as a slave and compelled her to work contained in the residence and outdoors, cleansing and sustaining the livestock and property,” the affidavit says.
If each girls are convicted within the federal case, they might every face a possible sentence of life in jail, based on federal prosecutors.
Protection attorneys individually representing Tania and Brenda of their state legal circumstances didn’t instantly return requests for remark.
When you or somebody you realize is experiencing youngster abuse, name or textual content Baby Assist Hotline at 1-800-422-4453.