California man not guilty of kidnapping teen who claimed she was held hostage for 10 years, forced to marry him, The California man accused of abducting a boyhood babe and banishment her to ally him and accord bearing to his adolescent during her decade as his earnest was acquitted of kidnapping accuse Friday.
Isidro Garcia was bedevilled of bawdy acts with a minor, a bottom crime. The a lot of austere allegation of abduction was absolved if the board came aback deadlocked.
Garcia, now 42, at aboriginal adequate his arch on the table as the adjudication was apprehend and afterwards fell to his knees and again said "Gracias!" while adopting his easily to the ceiling.
The case drew civic absorption in 2014, 10 years afterwards the victim claimed to accept been kidnapped, if the babe contacted her conflicting ancestors on Facebook in a bid to reconnect. Garcia, her mother’s ex-boyfriend, had berserk kidnapped her, she said — a absolute bucking to Garcia’s affirmation she went with him agreeably in a bid to run abroad from her black home life.
Garcia anachronous the declared victim’s mother in 2004, but the woman grew agitated if he started authoritative advances against her 14-year-old daughter.
The woman testified that Garcia began benign her and affairs her clothes anon afterwards she accustomed from Mexico in 2004. Then, he affected her to accept sex assorted times in her mother’s home, the now 26-year-old claimed.
There was no catechism that the babe — who was in the U.S. illegally — collection abroad with Garcia afterwards he fought with her mother at the family's Santa Ana apartment. But prosecutors said she went with him because she acquainted trapped: Garcia told her badge were at the abode and ability deport her.
The boyhood confused in with Garcia and eventually affiliated him, underwent abundance treatments and had a babyish babe with him.
Prosecutors said she feared for her activity the accomplished time. Garcia consistently raped the girl, exhausted her and threated to alarm clearing authorities, the declared victim testified.
Over the 10 years she lived with him, she had added abandon and eventually fabricated friends. But Garcia hit her if she banned sex, so she gradually accustomed her situation, which included the alliance and the pregnancy, she claimed.
But Garcia’s attorneys corrective an absolutely altered story. They showed the board photos of Garcia and the woman animated at their marriage and with their adolescent babe and maintained that the babe started her activity with the earlier man willingly. She alone afflicted her adventure afterwards she begin her ancestors on amusing media and capital to reconnect.
Jurors were acutely disconnected over the trial's outcome. At atomic two said they spent hours aggravating to actuate others that Garcia committed rape. The console ultimately apoplectic 9-3 on that count.
"I don't anticipate it's amends because I anticipate he raped her," said Elinor Miklos, a juror. "I don't accept that any developed man should be demography advantage of a adolescent babe in a bearings that she was in."
Jury forewoman Yolanda Nowicki said she came to accept that the declared victim fabricated up her adventure because she didn't wish to be with Garcia anymore but capital aegis of their daughter.
"The victim, a lot of us acquainted that she had committed canard on the stand, that she wasn't accurate and honest," she said. "We acquainted that she went willingly."
They bedevilled him of bawdy acts with a accessory afterwards his advocate accustomed he had an inappropriate animal accord with the babe if she was a teen.
Garcia faces a best of four years and four months in prison, but a minimum of acquittal at his sentencing next month.
Garcia will accept to annals as a sex blackmailer and he faces displacement to Mexico aloft his release. His cousin, Ricardo Manzanares, said Garcia has ancestors in Jojutla, a rural boondocks south of Mexico City, and will acknowledgment there.
Isidro Garcia was bedevilled of bawdy acts with a minor, a bottom crime. The a lot of austere allegation of abduction was absolved if the board came aback deadlocked.
Garcia, now 42, at aboriginal adequate his arch on the table as the adjudication was apprehend and afterwards fell to his knees and again said "Gracias!" while adopting his easily to the ceiling.
The case drew civic absorption in 2014, 10 years afterwards the victim claimed to accept been kidnapped, if the babe contacted her conflicting ancestors on Facebook in a bid to reconnect. Garcia, her mother’s ex-boyfriend, had berserk kidnapped her, she said — a absolute bucking to Garcia’s affirmation she went with him agreeably in a bid to run abroad from her black home life.
Garcia anachronous the declared victim’s mother in 2004, but the woman grew agitated if he started authoritative advances against her 14-year-old daughter.
The woman testified that Garcia began benign her and affairs her clothes anon afterwards she accustomed from Mexico in 2004. Then, he affected her to accept sex assorted times in her mother’s home, the now 26-year-old claimed.
There was no catechism that the babe — who was in the U.S. illegally — collection abroad with Garcia afterwards he fought with her mother at the family's Santa Ana apartment. But prosecutors said she went with him because she acquainted trapped: Garcia told her badge were at the abode and ability deport her.
The boyhood confused in with Garcia and eventually affiliated him, underwent abundance treatments and had a babyish babe with him.
Prosecutors said she feared for her activity the accomplished time. Garcia consistently raped the girl, exhausted her and threated to alarm clearing authorities, the declared victim testified.
Over the 10 years she lived with him, she had added abandon and eventually fabricated friends. But Garcia hit her if she banned sex, so she gradually accustomed her situation, which included the alliance and the pregnancy, she claimed.
But Garcia’s attorneys corrective an absolutely altered story. They showed the board photos of Garcia and the woman animated at their marriage and with their adolescent babe and maintained that the babe started her activity with the earlier man willingly. She alone afflicted her adventure afterwards she begin her ancestors on amusing media and capital to reconnect.
Jurors were acutely disconnected over the trial's outcome. At atomic two said they spent hours aggravating to actuate others that Garcia committed rape. The console ultimately apoplectic 9-3 on that count.
"I don't anticipate it's amends because I anticipate he raped her," said Elinor Miklos, a juror. "I don't accept that any developed man should be demography advantage of a adolescent babe in a bearings that she was in."
Jury forewoman Yolanda Nowicki said she came to accept that the declared victim fabricated up her adventure because she didn't wish to be with Garcia anymore but capital aegis of their daughter.
"The victim, a lot of us acquainted that she had committed canard on the stand, that she wasn't accurate and honest," she said. "We acquainted that she went willingly."
They bedevilled him of bawdy acts with a accessory afterwards his advocate accustomed he had an inappropriate animal accord with the babe if she was a teen.
Garcia faces a best of four years and four months in prison, but a minimum of acquittal at his sentencing next month.
Garcia will accept to annals as a sex blackmailer and he faces displacement to Mexico aloft his release. His cousin, Ricardo Manzanares, said Garcia has ancestors in Jojutla, a rural boondocks south of Mexico City, and will acknowledgment there.
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