The unnamed woman in Santa Ana contacted police after finding her sister on Facebook, officers said.

Isidro Garcia, 41, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment.

Police said in a statement he had been living with the girl's family at the time of her disappearance.

The abuse began in 2004, the statement said, when Mr Garcia was dating the victim's mother and residing with her and her daughters in Santa Ana, a city in Orange County.

The police allege that Mr Garcia began sexually assaulting the victim in June of that year. Two months later he assaulted the victim's mother and drugged the teenager, driving her 26 miles north to Compton where she was locked in a garage, say police.

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