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US woman found 10 years after alleged kidnapping by Isidro Garcia
- 5 HOURS AGO MAY 22, 2014
Being held ... Isidro Garcia was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, rape, lewd acts with a minor and false imprisonment. Picture: Santa Ana Police Department Source: Supplied
A US woman who was kidnapped a decade ago, sexually assaulted and forced to marry her abductor has escaped after contacting her sister on Facebook, police say.
The Santa Ana Police Department in southern California said it is holding Isidro Garcia, 41, on charges connected with the abduction.
The victim, who has not been named, was 15 when she was allegedly kidnapped by Garcia in 2004.
Garcia was dating her mother and lived with the family, authorities said, in the Villa del Sol garden-apartment complex in Santa Ana, a largely middle-class, mostly Latino city in the inland part of Orange County, about an hour south of Los Angeles.
The mother suspected that he was sexually abusing her daughter, police said.
In June 2004, Garcia assaulted the mother, drugged the girl then fled with her to a house in Compton, ABC News US reports.
According to police Garcia initially imprisoned her in a garage then told her that her family had stopped looking for her and that they would be deported if she came forward.
He supplied her with false identification papers and forced her to marry him in 2007.
He subjected her to sustained physical, sexual and mental abuse over the years and the two had a child in 2012, according to police.
The victim, now 25, recently contacted her sister on Facebook “and eventually gained the courage to contact the police,” the statement said.
She told her story to officers on Tuesday, police said.
Garcia and the woman moved several times “to avoid police detection,” the police said.
They worked for the same cleaning service, holding down jobs on a night cleaning crew that he had arranged “so he could keep a close eye on the victim”.
Cpl. Anthony Bertagna, a spokesman for the Santa Ana police, told the KNX-AM radio station in Los Angeles that the girl had tried twice to get away, the New York Times reports.
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