This Tuesday, May 20, 2014, photo released by the Santa Ana Police Department, shows suspect Isidro Garcia, age 41, of Bell Gardens, California, who was arrested in Santa Ana, California. Garcia allegedly kidnapped a 15-year-old girl in Santa Ana in 2004 then repeatedly physically and sexually assaulted her over the course of 10 years. AP
SANTA ANA, California—Police said that a man they had arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a girl 10 years ago got false identification papers for her from Mexico so he could marry her.
The girl was 15 when she disappeared from Santa Ana, southeast of Los Angeles, in 2004.
Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said Wednesday that Isidro Garcia got the documents in 2007 as part of his elaborate efforts to hide her age and name.
In 2012, he fathered a child with her.
Bertagna said she tried to escape twice but was severely beaten.
Police said Garcia, 41, told the girl, who is in the United States illegally, that her family had stopped trying to find her and they would be deported if she contacted them.
The now-25-year-old woman first contacted authorities Monday.—Gillian Flaccus