ISIS vic ma mercy plea

Vid to Kayla killers

The mother of slain US aid worker Kayla Mueller testified at the trial of an alleged ISIS captor that the family sent a personal plea to the terror group’s leader in a desperate attempt to secure her release.

Marsha Mueller revealed that the family sent a video message to her daughter’s captors, as Marsha took the stand against El Shafee Elsheikh, a 33-year-old former British national, Tuesday.

“Kayla is not your enemy. Show your mercy and release our daughter,” Marsha said in the video message.

Her emotional testimony came on the fifth day of the trial in US federal court in Alexandria, Va.

Elsheikh, an alleged member of the British-born ISIS executioners dubbed “The Beatles,” is accused of involvement in the murders of Mueller and three other Americans, aid worker Peter Kassig and journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

Occasionally wiping away tears, Marsha recalled how her daughter had worked at an orphanage in India and taught English to Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala before going to Syria, according to Agence France-Presse.

Kayla “was always interested in helping people,” her mom said.

Her daughter was captured by ISIS in August 2013 while accompanying her boyfriend, Syrian national Rodwan Safarjalani, on a trip to a hospital in Aleppo where he was contracted to repair a satellite dish.

Marsha testified about e-mail exchanges with her daughter’s captors.

“We don’t want to harm her,” the hostage-takers reportedly told the family in a May 2014 e-mail. “She is like a guest with us at the moment.”

Marsha said the US government told the family that the captors “will not harm a woman,” but they decided to make a personal appeal to then-ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

It has been reported Kayla was handed over to Baghdadi, who allegedly raped her repeatedly before killing her.

In February 2015, ISIS claimed that Kayla had been killed in an airstrike by Jordanian warplanes.