A woman who disappeared as a teenager a decade ago from her California home has contacted police to say she has been held captive by a former family friend.
The victim was kidnapped in 2004 at the age of 15 by Isidro Garcia, police said on Wednesday.
Garcia (41) has been held on suspicion of abduction, rape, lewd acts with a minor and false imprisonment, according to Santa Ana Police Department.
Investigators say that Garcia had been dating the girl's mother, who suspected he was sexually abusing her daughter.
In June 2004, he allegedly attacked the mother before drugging the girl and driving her to a house in Compton where he locked her in a garage.
He then moved home several times to avoid detection, it is alleged, and gave the girl fake identification.
Police say the unidentified victim bore a child to her captor in 2012, five years after she was forced to marry him.
After years of physical and emotional abuse, the victim, now 25, approached police upon finding her sister on Facebook, say investigators.
Corporal Anthony Bertagna is from Santa Ana police:
The accused obtained night-shift cleaning jobs for himself and the victim so he could keep watch over her, police said.
The case has echoes of the Cleveland kidnappings. During about a decade in captivity, three women were subjected to rape and beatings by their abductor, Ariel Castro. He killed himself in prison last summer.
