A woman abducted from her suburban California home when she was 15 has been found alive after a decade-long ordeal of physical and sexual abuse, police said on Wednesday SIA reports quoting the Franse 24.
Police arrested the alleged abductor, 41-year-old Isidro Garcia (pictured), on suspicion of kidnapping for rape, lewd acts with a minor and false imprisonment, according to a statement from the Santa Ana Police Department.
In 2004, when the victim was 15, Garcia was dating her mother and lived with the family. The mother suspected that he was sexually abusing her daughter, police said. In June 2004, Garcia assaulted the mother, drugged the girl and then fled with her to a house in Compton, locking her in a garage, the statement said.
Over the years, the girl was sexually assaulted by her abductor and gave birth to his child in 2012, police said. The woman reportedly contacted authorities on Tuesday after first reaching out to her sister on Facebook.
The woman’s escape comes a year after three Ohio women famously escaped from a home in suburban Cleveland, telling authorities that they had been held captive there for years and abused by their captor, Ariel Castro.
Castro pleaded guilty to 937 counts including aggravated murder for forcing one of the women, whom he had impregnated, to miscarry. He was found hanged in his cell a month into a life sentence in a death later ruled a suicide.
Forced marriage
In the California case, the young woman’s mother reported her missing, along with Garcia, shortly after he fled the home with her daughter.
Garcia moved with the teenager several times during the following months and years, police said, telling her that family members had stopped looking for her and would be deported if she tried to contact them. He provided the girl with false identification and used physical and emotional abuse to prevent her from fleeing, police said.
Garcia forced the girl into marriage in 2007, she told police. He arranged for both of them to work at a night-time cleaning service so he could keep watch over her and that she saw no way to escape, police said.
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