CT - Mother and Aunt charged in connection with death of 12-year-old Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres in New Britain.

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Carla Garcia, the mother of 12-year-old Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres, was arrested Sunday night and now faces charges of murder with special circumstances, among others. Her sister, Jacqueline Garcia, was arrested as well. She faces charges of cruelty to persons under 19 years of age.

Police also issued an arrest warrant for Carla Garcia's boyfriend, charging him with murder with special circumstances and tampering with evidence. He has not yet been arrested.
Carla is being held on a $5 million bond. Jacqueline is being held on a $1 million bond.

According to police, Mimi's death occurred in Fall 2024 while the family was still living in Farmington. Melanson said that the investigation showed the child was subjected to prolonged physical abuse prior to her death and that her body was kept in the basement of the family's home, then was moved when the family relocated to New Britain.
Officers were alerted to the remains on October 8th, when they received an anonymous tip about suspicious activity at the address. The remains were found in a storage container and were in an advanced state of decomposition, according to New Britain police.

New Britain police make third arrest after girl's remains found behind abandoned home

New Britain police have arrested three people in the case of 11-year-old Jacqueline Torres, whose remains were found behind an abandoned home.

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Remains of 12-year-old girl found in container near abandoned home, family confirms

A 12-year-old girl’s human remains were found inside a container in an abandoned building, according to authorities.

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[Gemmie]

What a cutie patootie. RIP Mimi.

SS taken from the video at: Remains of 12-year-old girl found in container near abandoned home, family confirms

 

[sds71]

The boyfriend of Karla Garcia is in custody per New Britain, CT. He is facing charges in connection to the death of Jacqueline Torres. @LawCrimeNetwork

https://twitter.com/x/status/1977922801207026032

 

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Police said Nanita disposed of the girl’s remains at an abandoned property on Clark Street last Wednesday. A witness called police to report the suspicious activity. Police said the child’s remains were found in an advanced state of decomposition.

The medical examiner’s office is working to identify the exact cause of death, officials said.
Police said Nanita also is charged with conspiracy to commit murder with special circumstances, risk of injury to a child, first-degree unlawful restraint, intentional cruelty to a child, improper disposal of a body and tampering with physical evidence.

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/new-britain-ct-jacqueline-garcia-remains-arrests-21099692.php

 

[Eli9]

If her death happened in Fall of last year did no one notice her absence? Was she not in school? I guess her 'mother' could have told the school that they were moving out of the area. Thank goodness for the witness reporting what they saw to LE!! Jacqueline /Mimi could have very well ended up as one more of the unidentified.

Edit - to correct name.

 

[tlcya]

Torres said that he had not seen or spoken to his daughter since before her 12th birthday, which was Jan. 29.

He said the 12-year-old was living with her mother, who had custody. He believes that she has been missing since January or potentially earlier. He said he hadn’t been able to get in touch with her for months.
Remains of 12-year-old girl found in container near abandoned home, family confirms

Karla is being held on a $5 million bond. Jackelyn is being held on a $1 million bond.

According to police, Mimi's death likely occurred in fall of 2024, when she would have been 11 years old
New Britain police make third arrest after girl's remains found behind abandoned home

The family had been living in Farmington, according to police, and they believe that Jacqueline was the victim of prolonged abuse and malnourishment. They believe that her body had been kept in the basement of the family's home, then moved in 2025 when the family moved to another location.

The last known schooling Jacqueline Torres had was homeschooling, New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart said.
Mother, her boyfriend and aunt of 12-year-old girl found dead in New Britain face charges

DCF said Jacqueline’s siblings are safe and in their custody.

The Garcia sisters are due back in court on Nov. 14.
Three face judge in case of murdered 12-year-old girl

Osorio said he hasn’t physically seen his granddaughter in two years and that the mother would always make excuses to his son - the father - about why his granddaughter couldn't FaceTime him.

“He was thinking all the time that Mimi just don’t want to see, and he don’t want to like push her,” he said.

“Only God is helping me. God is helping me to pass this process,” Patricia Delgado, the girl’s grandmother said in Spanish.
Grandparents of 12-year-old girl found dead in New Britain are processing loss

 

[tlcya]

Nanita's FB

ETA Kayla's FB

 

[Megnut]

Police said Nanita disposed of the girl’s remains at an abandoned property on Clark Street last Wednesday. A witness called police to report the suspicious activity. Police said the child’s remains were found in an advanced state of decomposition.

The medical examiner’s office is working to identify the exact cause of death, officials said.
Police said Nanita also is charged with conspiracy to commit murder with special circumstances, risk of injury to a child, first-degree unlawful restraint, intentional cruelty to a child, improper disposal of a body and tampering with physical evidence.

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/new-britain-ct-jacqueline-garcia-remains-arrests-21099692.php

Everything about this story is awful and it echoes other threads. Keeping her body in the basement? So grateful to the person who reported the suspicious activity, I hope Jacqueline's body can tell the story, dreadful as it must be.

What horrible humans beings who did this to her.

JMO

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978206400741359766

 

[sds71]

Love says her friend knew the 11-year-old’s mother’s boyfriend Jonaton Nanita. She says he started to leave breadcrumbs in their conversations about killing someone, and where the body was.
"He kind of just told the wrong person where she was,” said Love. “We came and investigated it. And it was a body. He told on himself really.”
Love says Nanita told her friend the person who was killed was a “bad man” and that they “deserved it.” She says they launched a self-investigation to find the body, but were shocked when it turned out to be Mimi’s.

"I was disgusted,” said Love. “I had a feeling anyway it was a human. She told me he said it was a bad man. I was disgusted and devastated when I found out it was a little girl.”
She says their discovery led New Britain police to this house on Clark Street, where they recovered the storage bin, and the autopsy confirmed the body’s identity to belong to "Mimi."
Since the discovery, police have arrested Nanita, the girl's mother, Karla Garcia, and her aunt, Jackelyn Garcia.

Woman who says she found dead girl's body in New Britain recounts the experience

A woman who claims to be one of the anonymous tipsters who found the body of 11-year-old Jacqueline Torres-Garcia in New Britain has now come forward.

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New Britain school officials said the mother charged in 12-year-old Jacqueline Torres-Garcia‘s death pulled her daughter out of school last year.

https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/hartford/new-britain-public-schools-shares-statement-on-12-year-old-girl-whose-remains-were-found/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNcfFBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFyRlB2WTNSSExZbWp2WWNQAR5SxgC9LPAqOtChqPzx4s5BNXnFWEpjPu6WMDl-dYa0oSPvnp4lfj1cabW29A_aem_5LlLotDW4EfSBL9selCw_g

 

[Izzylizzy]

We've been around this tragic block before with Connecticut's lack of homeschooling laws so read and weep about the power homeschooling parents have over self-serving politicians.
Two thousand attended this hearing and politicians quivered.
imo

Amid critiques of CT’s homeschool laws, parents rally at Capitol

 

[Izzylizzy]

Connecticut's 'lax' homeschooling rules could have aided boy's abuse, some education advocates say

The state's system is largely unregulated and open to misuse by abusive parents, they said.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Spectrix]

Police said Nanita also is charged with conspiracy to commit murder with special circumstances, risk of injury to a child, first-degree unlawful restraint, intentional cruelty to a child, improper disposal of a body and tampering with physical evidence.

With charges including conspiracy to commit murder, one has to wonder if concealment of abuse / pregnancy may have played into motive.
I'm also curious about the mother withdrawing Mimi from School just ahead of the new term starting in August 2024. Was it because she was dead?

 

[sds71]

Our last involvement with the family commenced in January, 2025, following allegations concerning Jacqueline’s younger sibling. While it’s now reported that Jacqueline died months earlier, Ms. Garcia stated at the time of our investigation that Jacqueline was being homeschooled and staying temporarily out-of-state with a relative. In response, DCF conducted a video call with a person who mother claimed to be Jacqueline. This information has been provided to Law Enforcement. Given that no additional concerns were noted, the Department closed the case in March 2025.

Mother of murdered girl used different child for DCF video call months before discovery of remains

Documents from New Britain school officials revealed when a murdered 11-year-old girl was removed from the district and enrolled in homeschooling.

www.wfsb.com

 

[tlcya]

Our last involvement with the family commenced in January, 2025, following allegations concerning Jacqueline’s younger sibling. While it’s now reported that Jacqueline died months earlier, Ms. Garcia stated at the time of our investigation that Jacqueline was being homeschooled and staying temporarily out-of-state with a relative. In response, DCF conducted a video call with a person who mother claimed to be Jacqueline. This information has been provided to Law Enforcement. Given that no additional concerns were noted, the Department closed the case in March 2025.

Mother of murdered girl used different child for DCF video call months before discovery of remains

Documents from New Britain school officials revealed when a murdered 11-year-old girl was removed from the district and enrolled in homeschooling.

www.wfsb.com

So what child did mom have get on video chat with CPS that she claimed was her daughter, Mimi? What adult "loaned" her child to this mother to pass off to CPS as her deceased child? Was it the aunt who is also charged or some other [unusual person]

 

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WARRANT: Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia died Sept. 2024; mother admits to starving her before death

Jacqueline Torres-Garcia “Mimi” died on September 19th, 2024. That’s what Jacqueline’s mother, Karla Garcia, told her sister, Jackelyn Garcia, according to Farmington Police search warrants obtained by the I-Team.

www.wfsb.com

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/jacqueline-mimi-torres-garcia-new-britain-death-21104500.php

 

[Megnut]

WARRANT: Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia died Sept. 2024; mother admits to starving her before death

Jacqueline Torres-Garcia “Mimi” died on September 19th, 2024. That’s what Jacqueline’s mother, Karla Garcia, told her sister, Jackelyn Garcia, according to Farmington Police search warrants obtained by the I-Team.

www.wfsb.com

OMG

Spoiler: Horrifying details TRIGGER WARNING

They stopped feeding her, two weeks for she died. Precious child was starved to death. Ziptied.

Mother took a photo of her, on potty pads, zip tied.

After she died, the smell got to be too much, so they left, stayed with friends or at a motel.

What an utter failure to be even accidentally human.

JMO

 

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Jackelyn Garcia told police when she left the residence in mid-August, “she knew Jacqueline was going to die.”

Jackelyn Garcia served 8 and a half months in prison from December 2024 to August 2025, after being convicted and charged with abusing her then 11 month old child. Jackelyn says when she was released from jail, she moved in with Garcia and Nanita and that Garcia was her sponsor.

She told police she found the body and Karla Garcia told her Jacqueline had died on September 19th, 2024.
WARRANT: Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia died Sept. 2024; mother admits to starving her before death

absolute garbage, every single one of them. I'm so sorry you were cursed with these adults, rest easy Mimi, justice will come one day.

 

[sds71]

The warrants explained how people came forward to make anonymous tips about the body’s location. A couple of the informants provided a photograph of the vehicle used to drop off the tote in New Britain.

One of those informants told police they were with Nanita at the end of September. The informant said Nanita picked up the tote from a cemetery and brought it to the Clark Street address.

The informant noted that the tote smelled bad.

Also, the warrants detailed the police interviews of Karla Garcia, Nanita, and Jackelyn Garcia.

Police noted that Karla Garcia, Jacqueline’s mother, and Nanita, Karla Garcia’s boyfriend, told different stories about what happened to Jacqueline.

Arrest warrants provide new details in New Britain girl’s death

Arrest warrants for the three suspects charged in connection with the death of an 11-year-old girl were released on Tuesday.

www.wfsb.com

 

[tlcya]

Cops Talk to 'Killer' Mom as Daughter’s Dead Body Hides in House