GOP Senator Katie Britt's gut-wrenching story about girl, 12, being raped by cartel gang happened under GEORGE BUSH's administration, not Biden's - as her response to his State of the Union speech is debunked

Katie Britt was dismissed as a 'lying sack of s***' and accused of weaponizing a child rape victim as fact checkers got to work on her State of the Union response.

The junior senator from Alabama chose illegal immigration as her theme after she was selected to deliver the official Republican response to the President's State of the Union Address on Thursday night.

Her impassioned 18-minute speech infuriated liberals and was ridiculed by Scarlett Johansen who parodied it on SNL where she was derided as the 'craziest b**ch in the Target parking lot'.

But her emotive story of a 12-year-old rape victim to illustrate the border crisis under Joe Biden sparked outrage after it emerged the girl's ordeal actually took place in Mexico when George W Bush was president, according to reports.

'I don't know what the F I saw,' said former Fox host Megyn Kelly, 'she embarrassed herself, she embarrassed Republicans, and she embarrassed women.'

Senator Katie Britt centered the story of a 12-year-old child trafficking victim to illustrate the border crisis under Joe Biden as she delivered the GOP response to Joe Biden's State of the Union Address on Thursday

It emerged the survivor she showcased is now a high-profile campaigner who was abused  in Mexico years before Biden took office 

Karla Jacinto Romero was just 12-years-old when she was thrown out of her home in Mexico City and forced into four years of child prostitution

The GOP rising star chose to centerpiece the story of 'a woman who shared her story with me', after speaking to her in Del Rio, Texas.

'She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped,' Britt told viewers from her kitchen table in Birmingham, Alabama.

'The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoebox of a room, and they sent men through that door, over and over again, for hours and hours on end.

'We wouldn't be OK with this happening in a third-world country. This is the United States of America, and it's past time we start acting like it.'

Former AP journalist Jonathan M Katz was among the first to realize that Britt was speaking about the case of Karla Jacinto Romero, who was ensnared by a pimp after her mother threw her out of the family home in Mexico City in 2004.

She was forced into prostitution in four years before escaping and becoming a powerful and high-profile advocate for child sex victims, testifying to Congress in 2015 and meeting the Pope.

'Britt tells it like she was sitting by the banks of the Rio Grande holding her hand, getting her to tell the story she won't tell anyone else,' Katz remarked.

Former AP journalist Jonathan M Katz was among the first to dig out the truth of the story 

Britt appeared on the verge of tears at times sitting at her kitchen table as she tore into the policies President Joe Biden emphatically defended, making an emotional appeal

At 42, Britt is the youngest ever female GOP Senator and seen as a rising star in the party

Romero testified to Congress as far back as 2015 and has become one of Mexico's best-known advocates against child trafficking 

'This senator has gone around telling the story over and over again as if she was describing actions that took place on or even near the US border during Joe Biden's presidency.

'It goes beyond misleading.'

'It just looks like she got on national television and lied about something really horrific and really important for her own personal and her party's political gain.'

Britt traveled to the border at the Del Rio Sector in Texas in January 2023 with fellow Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, according to a news release issued then from Hyde-Smith's office.

'The Senators held a roundtable with former Mexican Congresswoman Rosa María de la Garza, Fox News Contributor Sara Carter and Karla Jacinto Romero, a survivor of human trafficking,' the news release said.

'The Senators learned about cartel activity in Mexico and the work being done to rescue victims of human trafficking.'

Britt, 42, has made immigration one of her top issues in her first years in the Senate, and Republicans have seized on a surge of immigrants entering the country during Biden's term to attack the president.

Donald Trump had endorsed Britt in her 2022 primary after flipping on former Rep. Mo Brooks, who he'd first endorsed.

Britt is married to former NFL player Wesley Britt and they have two children, and Speaker Mike Johnson noted Britt is the 'only current Republican mom of school-aged kids serving in the Senate.'

The youngest Republican woman to be elected to the Senate, drew praise from some for her performance including Texas Senator Ted Cruz

'Congratulations to my friend and colleague @SenKatieBritt for showing Texans and Americans what Republicans really stand for—a strong economy, secure border, and good jobs for every American,' he posted.

'She was absolutely spot on and delivered a dynamite response,' wrote Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

But former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh called her remarks 'despicable'.

'She sat in front of the American people and she lied to us about a very serious problem,' he told CNN.

Alabama GOP Senator Katie Britt's State of the Union response was spoofed by Scarlett Johansson (pictured) on SNL which parodied the politician's dramatic tone

'It's very clear to me,' Katz concluded, that Britt was 'trying to create an association in the people's mind between Joe Biden, the border, Mexicans or people of Latin descent, and sexual violence.

'That's what she's going for and she's doing it on the basis of what you can only say is just an out and out lie.'

Katz's rapid rebuttal earned more than 150,000 likes after he posted it on TikTok.

'Holy moly. This is worth every minute,' said writer Nick Knudsen.

'Jonathan Katz exposes Katie Britt as a lying sack of s***.'