California woman escapes 10 years after she was kidnapped aged 15

A woman who was 15 when she disappeared 10 years ago from her California home has contacted police and says she was held against her will, raped constantly and even forced to marry and bear her captor's child.

The Santa Ana Police Department said Wednesday that they have booked her captor, Isidro Garcia, on suspicion of kidnapping for rape, lewd acts with a minor and false imprisonment.

Police say the victims mother was dating Garcia, who was living with her family in 2004, when he drugged her daughter and kept her away from everything she ever knew for the next decade.

She tried to escape at least twice, she told police, but was always caught by her captor and then beaten.

'The psychological part of this is,' Santa Ana Police Corporal Anthony Bertagna explained to KTLA, 'she is now taken away from her family, told that her family is not looking for her, told that her family doesn’t care...He’s the only one there for her. She doesn’t know anybody.'

The victim had come to the United States from Mexico to reunite with her mother and sister just six months prior to the alleged abduction.

Police say she ran to a park near her new Santa Ana home back in 2004 after a domestic dispute. Garcia met her there and when she said she had a headache and wanted to go home, he allegedly gave her pills.

The next thing the victim recalls is waking up locked in a garage in Compton. And her nightmare of helplessness and brutality, police say, had only just begun.

The next day, the victim recalls Garcia handing her a fake ID and telling her she'll never see home again.

'He tells her that’s her new name, she needs to learn it, use it,' Bertagna said.

Police are steadfastly behind the victim's story of years of brainwashing and imprisonment, but Garcia's dumbfounded neighbors seem completely blindsided by the sick revelations.

'He treats her like a queen. He does his best to do whatever she wants,' said a shocked Maria Sanchez, who lived next to the couple's corner apartment in the immigrant neighborhood.

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