Kidnapping victim found 10 years after taken from home

Kidnapping victim found 10 years after taken from home May 22, 2014 5:17:27 GMT

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Post by Admin on May 22, 2014 5:17:27 GMT

Ana police announced the arrest of Isidro Garcia, 41, Wednesday after he allegedly abducted the then 15-year-old victim while living with her at her mother's home in 2004.

A kidnapping victim has emerged 10 years after she says she was drugged and held captive by a California man who forced her to marry him and bear his child. Santa

Ana police announced the arrest of Isidro Garcia, 41, Wednesday after he allegedly abducted the then 15-year-old victim while living with her as her mother's boyfriend.

The now 25-year-old woman was allegedly recovered Tuesday after contacting her sister on Facebook and mustering the courage to call police after suffering years of threats and abuse. According to police, after assaulting the victim's mother at her home in August of 2004 Garcia drugged the girl and drove her to a house in Compton.

"There, Garcia provided the victim with falsified identity documents and locked her overnight in a garage to prevent the victim from fleeing," police stated in a release. Garcia went on to repeatedly tell his victim that her mother and sisters had given up looking for her, but that if she ever tried to find them, they would be deported, according to police.

"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," stated police
Eventually three years after her abduction, in 2007, the victim claims Garcia forced her into marrying him and in 2012 she gave birth to his child. Throughout the terrorizing ordeal, while frequently moving to avoid detection, police said Garcia arranged it so they would both work for a night cleaning service, "so he could keep a close eye on the victim."

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Ana by Isidro Garcia, who was her mother’s boyfriend at the time. She says he took her to a home in Compton, where she was drugged and sexually assaulted.

2007: Garcia and the victim are married, using false documents created by Garcia.

2012: Vicitm gives birth to a child, fathered by Garcia.

2014: Victim contacts sister via Facebook and comes forward, telling authorities she was kidnapped.

May 21, 2014: Nanny describes alleged kidnapper, his victim, their daughter as "pefect couple."

Kidnapping victim found 10 years after taken from home May 23, 2014 4:50:31 GMT

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Post by Admin on May 23, 2014 4:50:31 GMT

The young California woman who was recently rescued after being abducted and held captive for 10 years should take time to heal before sharing her story, kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart said Thursday on TODAY.

Smart advised the young victim to fight giving into pressure to do anything she isn’t ready for. “If you don’t feel like sharing your story yet, you don’t need to. We will still be here if, and when, you decide to share your story,” she said in an interview with Savannah Guthrie. “Take all the time you need to find healing, to find happiness, to find that new normal in your life, to move forward. Take all the time you need.”

Neighbors say Isidro Garcia was a doting family man who sacrificed and worked two jobs to provide for his wife and daughter

“It’s so easy for us to be curious and think, ‘Why didn’t you escape? Why didn’t you run away?’ but it’s really important that we don’t ask that question because all the survivor hears is, ‘You should have done something,’ and ‘It’s your fault you were gone so long,’ and that’s what they do not need to be hearing right now,” she said.

Smart said her own kidnappers controlled her behavior by threatening to hurt her family if she tried to escape, something she found “the most terrifying thing for me in my entire ordeal because my family is my entire world.” It’s “so, so important for us not to stand outside and say, ‘Well, you should have,’ and ‘Why didn’t you?’ It’s so important for us not to say those kinds of things,” she said.

Though the smiles and happy pictures, police see a woman who was too terrified to go to authorities for years in the belief she or her family would be deported

A nanny who cared for the daughter of a woman who alleged she was kidnapped, raped and held for 10 years by her mother's former boyfriend said she never suspected he would commit such a crime. The nanny, identified only as Maria, said the two were "the perfect couple," held parties on their Bell Gardens patio and doted on their 3-year-old daughter. She never thought he was an alleged kidnapper and never saw anything odd or out of place.