SANTA ANA, Calif. - A woman who disappeared as a teenager a decade ago was reunited with her family after she went to police and told them her mother's ex-boyfriend drugged and kidnapped her in 2004, forced her to marry him and fathered her child.
Isidro Garcia, 41, of Bell Gardens, was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping for rape, lewd acts with a minor and false imprisonment, the Santa Ana Police Department said.
Police described a decade during which the woman - abused mentally, physically and sexually by her captor - was moved at least four times and given multiple fake identities to hide her from family and authorities.
The now-25-year-old woman, whose identity is not being released, first contacted authorities Monday - the same day Garcia was first arrested. Police said she came forward to police after finding her sister on Facebook.
Police arrested Garcia on Monday during a traffic stop in Bell Gardens. On Tuesday, Santa Ana police arrested him on the kidnapping and other charges, and also interviewed him.
Nice, I wonder what restricted her from trying to contact them earlier :O Glad to see shes back with her family though
More than likely because it was so long ago that she ended up being brainwashed by him and was too scared to contact her family or was told that she'd be killed/harmed if she did.
