A man has been arrested following the reappearance of a woman who disappeared as a teenager in 2004.
The victim, aged 15, was kidnapped by Isidro Garcia in 2004, according to Santa Ana Police, with Garcia now facing charges on suspicion of abduction, rape, lewd acts with a minor, and false imprisonment
Garcia had been dating the victim’s mother in 2004, when he allegedly drugged and and kidnapped the victim after a domestic violence issue.
Police say he then moved house multiple times to avoid detection, produced fake identity documents for the victim, and found night-shift cleaning work for the pair of them so he could keep a close eye on her at all times.
In a statement, the police said:
Even with the opportunity to escape, after years of physical and mental abuse, the victim saw no way out of her situation and lived a life with Garcia under sustained physical and mental abuse. In 2007, Garcia forced the victim into a marriage and in 2012 the two had a child.
The victim, now aged 25, finally found the courage to contact police after she contacted her sister on Facebook, with authorities immediately taking action to arrest Garcia.