Girl Kidnapped from Santa Ana Park in 2004 Found Alive

Photo Credit: Santa Ana Police DepartmentOn a summer night a decade ago, a 15-year-old girl who had just arrived in Santa Ana from Mexico disappeared from a park near her mother’s apartment.

Police launched a missing-persons investigation. But the case went cold — until this week, when she contacted authorities with a harrowing story of being abducted by her mother’s boyfriend, repeatedly assaulted for years and forced to move around Southern California to avoid being found.

Police say Isidro Garcia, 42, drugged and kidnapped the girl, beat her when she tried to escape and later forced her to marry him.

For years, authorities allege, he used violence and threats to keep her under his control, forcing her to work beside him and telling her she would be deported if she left.

Two years ago she had his child, according to police.