FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) – A woman testified Wednesday in the trial of her mother’s former boyfriend on rape and kidnapping charges that the man locked the bedroom door and told her not to yell when he had sex with her for the first time when she was 15.
The now-26-year-old woman took the stand in an Orange County courtroom in the trial of Isidro Garcia, 42, who is charged with raping and abducting her in 2004 and went on to marry her and father her child.
Garcia had already touched her inappropriately once soon after she arrived at her mother’s home in California from Mexico, she testified, and told her not to tell or she would get in trouble and he would call immigration authorities. Soon after her 15th birthday, she said he called her to the bedroom and locked the doors.
“I knew that something bad was going to happen,” she testified through a Spanish interpreter. “I just tried to get away but he told me, ‘Remember, you cannot yell.”
The Associated Press does not name victims in alleged sexual abuse cases.