Police Claim Friendly Neighbor Was Kidnap-rapist

(AP) — In the neighborhood where Tomas Medrano lived, he was known as a hardworking, churchgoing man who doted on his wife and toddler daughter. [...] police investigators say everything about that life was built on a lie. The reality, detectives contend, is that a decade ago a man named Isidro Garcia drugged and kidnapped a 15-year-old girl, raped her and beat her after failed escapes, moved at least four times to hide her identity under a fake name and, after years of psychological abuse, married her and fathered a child. Garcia was jailed on suspicion of kidnapping for rape, lewd acts with a minor and false imprisonment. The case comes just over a year after kidnapping and rape victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, three women who had gone missing separately about a decade earlier while in their teens or early 20s, were rescued from a house in Cleveland. Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her Utah bedroom at 14 and held captive for nine months, told The Associated Press that people cannot know what victims are going through and should not question why the woman didn't escape sooner. The family had the second-floor corner unit of a stucco apartment building in a quiet working-class neighborhood across from a park. A video shot at their daughter's birthday party last year shows the mother with the girl in her arms, line-dancing behind her husband as he wiggles his hips. Small gifts of kindness from a captor, a bit of food, a trip to the bathroom, can create positive feelings within the victim, said Dr.

 

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