AP Isidro Garcia, 41, was booked on charges that include kidnapping, rape, lewd acts with a minor and false Imprisonment. The 25-year-old woman who claims she was kidnapped a decade ago by a California man who forced her to marry him and bear his child said she was glad to be back with her family now that the terrifying ordeal was over.
The victim, who did not want to use her name, told KABC-TV that thinking of her family gave her the strength to endure years of abuse from her alleged captor, Isidro Garcia, 41, and the courage to eventually reach out for help.
“I’m so happy and God-blessed to be with my family,” the woman told the news station on Wednesday night. “That’s what I want all the time. All the time, I cry for them, more for my mom and my sisters.”
The woman was rescued from Garcia’s Bell Gardens home on Tuesday, after she reached out to her sister on Facebook and called police, Santa Ana authorities have said.
Damian Dovarganes/AP Isidro Garcia lived with the victim in a top floor apartment at this Bell Gardens home. Garcia is accused of snatching the victim from a local park when she was just 15 years old in August 2004, after he assaulted the girl’s mother.
The brute drugged the teen and locked her in the garage of a Compton home, where he repeatedly told the girl that her family gave up looking for her and if she tried to contact them, they would all be deported, police said.
“I was 15,” the girl told the local ABC affiliate.
Damian Dovarganes/AP Garcia, 41, allegedly kept his wife captive inside a top floor apartment in this Bell Gardens building. Enlarge 
Damian Dovarganes/AP Neighbors said they had no idea the 25-year-old woman living next door was being held captive by her husband. EnlargeGarcia, 41, allegedly kept his wife captive inside a top floor apartment in this Bell Gardens building.
“I couldn’t do anything…I was very afraid about everything, because I was alone. I (thought) I was alone, but I never was. My family was with me.”
The mother said she reported her daughter missing and suspected Garcia of sexually abusing the teen, but claimed she didn’t have any evidence to prove the allegations.
Three years after she was abducted, the victim claims Garcia forced her to marry him. Then, a few years later, she gave birth to his daughter — who is now 3 years old.
Damian Dovarganes/AP Maria Sanchez photo of her neighbor Isidro Garcia at his daughter’s third birthday at a Bell Gardens church. The woman said her husband beat her the few times she tried to escape and, when they finally settled in the Bell Gardens neighborhood, was too afraid to ask for help from neighbors, who didn’t have any idea the woman was being held against her will.
“He worked hard for me and my daughter and he bought everything I want,” she told the news station. “But I need love of my family — not things.”
She said it was because she feared for the safety of her daughter that she finally decided to try again to find help.
Garcia was booked on a slew of charges that included kidnapping, rape, lewd act with a minor and false imprisonment.
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