25-year-old California woman has been reunited with her mother after a
decade of being held captive by the mother's former boyfriend. Her
mother had thought the two had run away together.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Silvia
Suarez was involved in a live-in relationship with Isidro Garcia in
Santa Ana, California in 2004 when she began suspecting that her
boyfriend and 15-year-old daughter were sexually involved. She told
neighbors she thought they planned to run away together. But, according
to the victim, that's not what happened.
The victim,The two moved
now 25, revealed to authorities Tuesday how she allegedly was abducted
in June 2004, when she was living with her mother and sisters in Santa
Ana.
The victim told detectives that Garcia began sexually
assaulting her. In August 2004, after Garcia assaulted her mother,
Garcia drugged the girl and drove her to a house in Compton, police
said.
Once there, Garcia provided the girl with fake identity
documents and locked her overnight in a garage to prevent her from
fleeing, police said.
He allegedly warned the victim that her
family had given up looking for her and that if she tried to go back to
them, the family would be deported.
around to evade capture and earned money working nights for a custodial
service. The victim told police that Garcia would routinely physically
abuse and rape her, and in 2012, she gave birth to a child.
The
most depressing aspect of stories like this (which are a cornucopia of
depressing elements) — and Jaycee Dugard and Elizabeth Smart and the
women kidnapped by Ariel Castro — is the thought that if these are the
cases authorities are discovering and these are survivors who are
escaping, there must be other undiscovered captives living in
unthinkable conditions, held by unfathomably evil people. Where are
they? Who are they? What happens if they never escape?
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