A girl reported missing more than two years ago when she was 15 told police she escaped a home in Illinois where she had been held captive and repeatedly sexually assaulted. 
 
 Members of the Madison County tactical response team take a two-year-old child to a waiting ambulance Thursday evening, Aug. 23, 2012 in Washington Park, Ill. The child was rescued after a teenage girl... (Associated Press) 
 
 Neighborhood children watch as members of the Madison County tactical response team secure a house Thursday evening, Aug. 23, 2012 in Washington Park, Ill. A teenage girl reported missing more than two... (Associated Press) 
 
 Authorities in Washington Park, a village next to East St. Louis in the southwestern part of the state, raided the house Thursday afternoon and took into custody a 24-year-old man and his mother. They also recovered the teen's young child, which the girl said was the result of rape by her captor. 
 
 Washington Park Police Chief David Clark said they believe the man's mother aided the crimes. Police would not identify either of them by name because they had not been charged as of early Friday. 
 
 About two dozen members of a police commando unit wearing helmets and body armor swarmed the home with assault rifles drawn. They recovered the child and arrested a man and his mother. 
 
 One officer carried the child from the home, shielding the toddler with a sheet. The child was then taken away in an ambulance. 
 
 Police in St. Louis, Missouri, had listed the girl as a missing or runaway juvenile in April 2010. 
 
 The teen told police she was held against her will and was beaten and sexually assaulted almost every day. She reported trying to escape several times but told police that her captor chased her down each time and forced her back to the home at gunpoint. 
 
 She told police she was able to escape this week with the help of a relative. 
 
 Police said the teen also told them she was forced by the man and his mother to give a false name in medical records during her pregnancy and when the child was born. 
 
 A neighbor, Lakeitha Smith, told several local TV stations that she saw the girl from time to time outside the house and never witnessed anything that would raise concern. 
 
 "I used to see her come out of the house, back and forth," Smith said. "I didn't think she was being held hostage in the house." ||||| A teenage girl reported missing more than two years ago escaped from a home in southwestern Illinois where she said she was held captive and repeatedly sexually assaulted, police said Thursday. 
 
 Police in Washington Park, a village next to East St. Louis, said the girl reported that she was raped by her captor, got pregnant and had a baby. 
 
 In April 2010, St. Louis, Mo., police listed the girl as a missing or runaway juvenile. She was 15 when she disappeared. 
 
 She escaped from the home in Washington Park earlier this week and went to police, saying her child was still in the house. 
 
 About two dozen members of a SWAT team wearing helmets and body armor swarmed the home Thursday afternoon with their assault rifles drawn. They recovered the child and arrested a 24-year-old man. 
 
 One of the officers carried the child _ apparently unharmed _ in his arms, and a white sheet was draped over the child's head to conceal the toddler's identity. The child was taken away in a waiting ambulance. 
 
 Washington Park Police Chief David Clark said it appears the man's mother assisted in the crime. She was also taken into custody. Police would not identify either of them by name because they had not been charged as of Thursday evening. 
 
 The teen told police she was held against her will and was beaten and sexually assaulted almost every day. She reported trying to escape several times but told police that her captor chased her down each time and forced her back to the home at gunpoint. 
 
 She told police she was able to escape this week with the help of a relative. 
 
 Police said the teen also told them she was forced by the man and his mother to give a false name in medical records during her pregnancy and when the child was born. ||||| A 41-year-old Bell Gardens man has been arrested after a woman whom he allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for nearly 10 years came forward with her story, according to Santa Ana police. 
 
 The unidentified victim, now 25, contacted police almost a decade after she was reported missing by her mother. She was forced to marry her captor and gave birth to his child, according to police. 
 
 The woman initially went to police in Bell Gardens to report a domestic dispute, according to Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. 
 
 It was during that conversation she told officers she that was a missing person who had been kidnapped. 
 
 “She was in fact taken and held against her will for the past 10 years,” Bertagna said. 
 
 Isidro Garcia was taken into custody on Tuesday on suspicion of kidnapping for rape, lewd acts with a minor and false imprisonment, the Santa Ana Police Department announced Wednesday. 
 
 The victim was 15 years old in August 2004, when her mother reported that her daughter and the her live-in boyfriend went missing “after a domestic violence incident.” 
 
 The mother believed her partner, Garcia, had been sexually abusing the teen, but had no proof, according to police. 
 
 After recently contacting her sister on Facebook, the victim “eventually gained the courage to contact the police,” according to a Santa Ana Police Department news release. 
 
 She said that Garcia began sexually assaulting her in June 2004 while they both lived at the family’s home in the 800 block of South Fairview Street in Santa Ana (map). Then, in August, Garcia assaulted the mother, drugged the victim and drove her to a house in Compton, the victim told police. 
 
 The next day Garcia allegedly handed the teenager fake identification papers and told her she could never go home. 
 
 “He tells her that’s her new name, she needs to learn it, use it,” said Bertagna. 
 
 Before the kidnapping, the teen’s mother had told a neighbor that she believed her boyfriend was having sex with her daughter and that the pair was planning to leave together, the Los Angeles Times reported. 
 
 “Over the course of the following months and years, Garcia repeatedly told the victim her family had given up looking for her, and if she tried to go back to them, the family would be deported,” the news release stated. 
 
 Garcia allegedly frequently assaulted the victim sexually and physically, and the couple moved four times to avoid detection by the police, Bertagna said. 
 
 When she tried to escape, she was caught and beaten, police said. 
 
 The couple worked together at a nighttime cleaning service so that Garcia “could keep a close eye on the victim,” according to police. 
 
 “Even with the opportunity to escape, after years of physical and mental abuse, the victim saw no way out of her situation and lived a life with Garcia under sustained physical and mental abuse,” the news release stated. 
 
 Garcia forced her to marry him in 2007, police said, and she bore him a child in 2012. 
 
 The teen did not speak English and had come to the U.S. from Mexico, according to Bertagna. 
 
 “The psychological part of this is … she is now taken away from her family, told that her family is not looking for her, told that her family doesn’t care,” Bertagna said. “He’s the only one there for her. She doesn’t know anybody.” 
 
 At the Bell Gardens home that they shared with their 3-year-old daughter, Guadalupe, in a courtyard apartment complex, neighbors said the woman and Garcia seemed like a happy couple. They were shocked by the allegation that the woman had been kidnapped by Garcia. 
 
 “He’s a good guy,” said Ernesto Rios, a neighbor of Garcia. “I see him every day, going to work. ‘Hi, how you been?'” 
 
 But another neighbor described Garcia as controlling when it came to his wife who she knew as Laura Ortiz. 
 
 “He wouldn’t really let her go outside,” said Maribel Garcia. “She was out for like five minutes or so and he would pull her back in.” 
 
 A “welcome” sign hung from the security door, and a stroller was left in the breezeway next to the entrance to the second-floor apartment. 
 
 The case against Garcia has been submitted to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for consideration. 
 
 Garcia was not listed on the Orange County inmate locater website, and it was not immediately clear where he was being held. 
 
 KTLA’s Chip Yost and Rick Chambers contributed to this article.
– A missing teenager managed to a flee an Illinois home where she told police she had been held captive for as long as three years and sexually abused almost daily, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She directed police back to the location, where a SWAT team arrested a 24-year-old man and his mother, and retrieved a toddler the teen said had been fathered by her rapist. The young woman ran away from her home in Missouri at the age of 15, says the Washington Park police chief, who added that police believe the man's mother aided the crimes. The teen told police she tried to escape several times that her captor chased her down each time and forced her back to the home at gunpoint. She says a relative finally helped her flee on Tuesday, reports the AP. Police said the teen also told them she was forced by the man and his mother to give a false name in medical records during her pregnancy and when the child was born.