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And kept in emotional chains. police calling it brainwashing. in april, she found courage to speak out, contacting her sister on facebook and going to this police station. many neighbors who knew the couple doubt her story. >> treat her like a queen. >> she could have easily gotten rid of him. >> reporter: garcias attorney claims it is a messy breakup. >> sometimes people get very le belligerent during the divorce process and separation process. people say things that arent true. >> reporter: th...

Abuse and through mental abuse. im sure you got into that with michelle as well. >> thats really part of her big message is you just dont know what other people are going through, number one, and how strong the emotional chains are. thats how she described it, rather than the physical chains that michelle suffered under as well. she talked about that. she did compose herself, amazingly, and she did want to continue talking because she really does want to get her message out. we continued on. >> ...

>> a woman, now 25. who says she spent ten years as a captive, telling cnn affiliate that she was sexually assaulted and then kidnapped by her mothers boyfriend, isidro garcia, and could not escape. >> i tried two times but i cant do it. i cant do it. he always -- >> hit you? >> yeah, hit me again. >> bail is set at a million. >> garcia, in a close circuit there facing multiple charges including felony rape. prosecutors say there were no physical chains but the mental torment bound her to her as...

>> a woman, now 25. who says she spent ten years as a captive, telling cnn affiliate that she was sexually assaulted and then kidnapped by her mothers boyfriend, isidro garcia, and could not escape. >> i tried two times but i cant do it. i cant do it. he always -- >> hit you? >> yeah, hit me again. >> bail is set at a million. >> garcia, in a close circuit there facing multiple charges including felony rape. prosecutors say there were no physical chains but the mental torment bound her to her as...

Chains dont have to be made of iron. >> thats what we talk about human bondage, psychological bondage. its worse than the actual physical chains because now you are talking about someones cognition being changed over the years. remember, according to the police, she was kidnapped at 15. she was drugged. she was raped. this individual allegedly was grooming her while she was still in the relationship with her mother taking her side and manipulating her even then. put her in a garage. tortured her...

It through anything. >> even if, as prosecutors have said in this case with this woman, they said there may have been no physical chains that she was being held by, but the emotional chains, that emotional abuse is what kept that woman tied to her captor. can you describe that because that is something that i think people from the outside looking in dont understand is that psychological threat that is so strong. >> theres a lot of people that go through tremendous pain, and just because youre no...

Thats another issue here confusing to some people. this all started ten years ago. do you think her immigration status somehow slowed up or 0 got in the way of a more effective investigation? there was a missing persons report filed but, gosh, they sort of suspected who took this it girl or who was with her at least, the undocumented immigrant, did that keep police from finding her? >> it certainly could have. if you look at, like elizabeth smart, for example, who came out and said she is so hap...

Well, bail has been set at $1 million for the california man accused of kidnapping his ex girlfriends 15-year-old daughter and holding her captive for ten years. the woman now 25 has come forward with allegations of her horrific abuse. but as devin dwyer tells us, some are questioning her story. >> reporter: her story sounds like a nightmare, kidnapping, rape, physical abuse over ten years. now relief to be home. >> more for my mom and my sisters. >> reporter: the alleged victim, who does not wa...

Tell you firsthand that threat is so much stronger than physical chains. now, i dont have intimate details on what threats he was holding over her head, but i understand that he was holding her family, that he was threatening her family and, for me, that was the strongest threat anyone could have ever made to me. i mean, my family is the most important thing in the world to me and i would have done anything to try to protect them. and i am willing to bet that she feels the exact same way about h...

Brook baldwin. we want to begin following a developing story of bravery and determination coming out of southern california where a 25-year-old woman found a way to finally escape captivity from a man she says kidnapped her when she was merely 15 years of age. she told police this man was her mothers live-in boyfriend. that man right here, the 42-year-old, is charged with kidnapping, rape, and other sex crimes. it took ten years for this young woman to find the strength to make that run and many...