PA-Missing For 10 Years, Tanya Nicole Kach - Found Safe

[fourboys]

March 22, 2006

The Charley Project: Tanya Nicole Kach (http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/k/kach_tanya.html)

McKeesport police said a woman who has been missing for 10 years -- since she was 14 years old -- has been found safe.

Officials said Tanya Nicole Kach, now 24, was found Tuesday in McKeesport. Kach was reported missing on February 10, 1996.

McKeesport police Officer Joseph Pero said Kach was initially listed as a runaway, but her disappearance turned into a missing person case.

Kach was reported to be in good condition and is with family members in Pittsburgh. Officials said the investigation is continuing, but would not comment further.

http://www.wpxi.com/news/8186371/detail.html

[Usher737]

News station is saying she was locked in a man's bedroom.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/8185815/detail.html

[lostfaith]

News station is saying she was locked in a man's bedroom.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/8185815/detail.html


Hmmm. Very interesting. The article says the man was not arrested. Will be interesting to hear more on this girl.

[Rle7]

Joe Sparico, owner of J.J.'s Deli Mart, said the woman he's known for the past six months as Nikki Evans broke down in tears Tuesday and told him she is the missing Tanya Kach, and that a school security guard had kept her locked in a bedroom of his Soles Street house that he shares with his elderly parents.

"To be honest with you, I really didn't believe her at first," Sparico said. "I mean, who could believe that. It's been 10 years. It was just too much for me to believe."

Kach said that the guard never physically abused her, but threatened to kill her many times and brainwashed her into believing her family didn't love her, Sparico said.

"He told her everyone believed she was dead anyway," he said.

Sparico said the guard works at nearby Cornell Middle School. School officials were not immediately available for comment.

McKeesport police Chief Joseph Pero said charges might be filed later. Pero declined to comment when asked about the security guard's identity. He also would not say whether the woman was being held against her will, or whether she changed her identity or appearance

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pmupdate/s_435776.html (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pmupdate/s_435776.html)

[Shadow205]

This is great that she has been found. With every one that is found it gives hope to the families of the thousands more missing that they too will be found.

[Usher737]

Here is an update about what happened to her.

Kach told Channel 11 news reporter Karen Welles that she was held captive by a 37-year-old man.


The suspect turned himself into police on Wednesday.


Kach said, "I thought I found someone who loved me and he said he'd take care of me."


Kach said she was held in a bedroom for 10 years. Kach insisted she wasn't physically or sexually abused, but she said there was verbal and mental abuse.


"There were times when I would threaten to leave and there were times he threatened to kill me," said Kach.


Kach said after four years of never leaving the bedroom, she was finally allowed to go out once in a while, but she thinks she was brainwashed into thinking her parents wouldn't want her back.


"I didn't want to be on the streets because that's where I thought I'd be. I didn't think I had a home. That was my home, that was my life," said Kach. "I didn't think anybody cared because he would tell me, 'Your case is dead, it's cold.'"


Her father, Jerry Kach, never gave up hope of finding her.


Jerry Kach said, "It was exactly 10 years, one month and 11 days and there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't think of her."


Officials said the investigation is continuing, but would not comment further.

[NewMom2003]

What a bizarre story. Thank God she's alive and safe.

One of the articles below says the man that was holding her, shares a home with his elderly parents. Did they have any idea that she was a kidnapped child?

[Beyond Belief]

This is exciting. I am so happy for her and her family to be reunited. Whatever the circumstances I am just overjoyed to have one of the "missing" removed from the list in this manner.

[docwho3]

. . .Did they have any idea that she was a kidnapped child?Ahhh but was she kidnapped? Or had she been staying with him as a runaway but finally either felt guilty or maybe got mad at him as the relationship began to fall apart and did she feel she maybe needed a cover story in order to return home? I eagerly await further news reports on this case. And I am happy for the family to have her back. That much is good news :)

[ThoughtFox]

This is the reason we don't really need mystery novels. :) Stories like this are stranger than fiction.

I saw this on Rita Cosby tonight, and I just don't understand a few things yet. The reporter said that this man had a son a few years younger than this girl. Didn't he notice that Dad had a young woman tied up to a bucket in his bedroom?

This reminds me of the Elizabeth Smart case, in a way, since this girl was so close to home. There had to have been some sort of Stockholm Syndrome - she sympathized with her captor - or some sort of psychology to this that I don't quite understand. I would have scratched my way out of that house within two weeks!

[txsvicki]

The parents of this man wouldn't have been quite as elderly 10 years ago. They should have to answer to this also. The girl was only 14 years old at the time and they had to of seen her in the bedroom or house.

[Bobbisangel]

So the guy would have been 27 when she was 14 yrs. She did say that she thought she had found someone to love her so maybe he didn't kidnap her.

How do you keep someone in your bedroom for years and never let them out...there are other people living in the home yet no one knows that she is there?? He went to work everyday...at the school. Odd that she waited till she was 24 yrs old before she broke away. Her story is possible and I hate to doubt her but some of it is just odd.

I also find it hard to believe that the two weren't involved sexually. That just doesn't ring true to me.

[mysteriew]

Hmmm. Very interesting. The article says the man was not arrested. Will be interesting to hear more on this girl.

According to the Pa Channel article, they think he will be facing sex crimes charges. It sounds like they will be arresting him, but are still investigating in order to determine what charges to levy against him.
Even if the girl was a runaway, she was only 14, so it is likely they can get him on some charges for that. One thing that concerns me.....she told the guy from the deli that if he checked out the missing children website, he would find her name there. How did she know that, unless she had computer access? And if she thought her parents didn't love her....why would she have been reported missing.
I agree about the guys parents having to know something. I mean she would have had to come out of the room at some point to go to the bathroom.
Wasn't there a similiar story like this a year or so ago? Or it may have been a movie....girl was locked up in a guys house for several years....she finally showed herself to authorities, then ended up pretty much in isolation, wouldn't even have anything to do with her family?

[bertajo]

McKeesport is a small town of 24,000 people, and she has had limited access to the community for about 6 years. How is it that no one recognized her? Did any neighbors see/note anything unusual during this time?

Also, the suspect, Sparico, works as a security guard at a middle school. Was he familiar with Kach prior to her disappearance?

[georgiagirl]

http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0323/tanyakach_ap.html



Woman missing for 10 years describes years of manipulation

http://www.courttv.com/graphics/13th/shim.gif

MCKEESPORT, Pa. (AP) — For 10 years, Tanya Nicole Kach says she was told that her parents didn't want her, that she was stupid and no one cared about her but the middle school security guard who was keeping her in his home.

It took her a decade to build the confidence to come forward, but on Wednesday she finally learned the truth as he she hugged her father, Jerry Kach, in a tearful reunion. "He's crying, I'm crying. All he kept saying was, 'I got my baby,"' said Kach, now 24, clutching her father's hand. "I'm touching blood, and I get to say, 'I love you, Dad."' Kach said she was looking forward to seeing her mother on Thursday for the first time in years...
more at link above~

[Thinkoflaura]

According to the news report in the local newspaper, the Pittsburg Herald/ Tribune, Law Enforcement has checked out Tanya's story and believe that it happened exactly as she says.

http://pittsburghlive.com/missing.html

Quote: "Allegheny County Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said investigators believe Kach's story.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released about 400 million exposures of her picture - on television, milk cartons and elsewhere - and there were no sightings. Periodic checks on her Social Security number also revealed no activity.
"This bolsters her contention that she wasn't outside the home," Moffatt said. "That's where she was all the time."
Police charged Hose with statutory sexual assault and three counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse." END QUOTE

Also of considerable interest is this murdered girl whose body was found ACROSS THE STREET from the pervert's house.
Quote from article:
" The house is within view of a cemetery where the remains of murder victim Kimberly Krimm, also 14, were found in 1998. Moffatt would not say if Hose would be questioned in that unsolved slaying. "

Note in the article that the man had Tanya's hair color changed and restyled in his home as well as forcing her to change her name and stay locked in a closet for almost the entire 10 years. I believe the victim. I hope this man gets the max. sentences for the charges against him.

[jubie]

I hope this story spreads like wild fire and all the news outlets take it on in a positive light. Can you imagine this starting a dominoe effect of women returing to families long thought lost. (No I'm not talking a stampede but mabye a few more women might find the courage to call home even if they've gotten into drugs and prostitution)

I don't care if she ran away from a disfunctional home or a 'perfect' home. She was only fourteen and obviously not very level headed. Hose was 27 and she was 14. that's sick and it makes him a predator.


Sadly there are plenty more just like him and it makes you wonder how many more 'runaways' are so close to home yet so far away.


Jubie

[ThoughtFox]

Have you seen this? I'm furious now! :furious: They had a "friend" who helped this scumbag kidnap the girl!

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/newssummary/s_436166.html

A McKeesport beautician helped Tanya Kach run away from home and elope with a security guard accused of holding the teen captive in his parents' home for a decade, according to a police affidavit released this morning.

Judy Sokol told police she cut and dyed Kach's hair in 1996 as a favor to Thomas John Hose and Kach, even though "she knew Hose was engaged in an inappropriate relationship," the affidavit states.

The Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families even contacted Sokol about Kach's whereabouts, prompting the beautician to sever her ties with the pair, the affidavit states, but it does not explain what Sokol told CYF case workers. . . .

Kach stayed at Sokol's McKeesport home until she could move into Hose's house on Soles Street. The security guard wanted to hide Kach until his parents, with whom he lived, left the house and he could take the runaway there, according to the affidavit.

It is not clear from the affidavit how long Kach stayed with Sokol, who also cut and dyed the teen's hair to help disguise her. Hose and Kach returned to Sokol's house repeatedly over a month to spend the night and have sex, the affidavit said.

"After moving in with Hose, he instructed her not to leave his second-floor bedroom and had threatened her if she left or attempted to leave," the affidavit said. Kach told police Hose insisted she keep track of their sexual activity in a calendar book "so he could brag to co-workers and friends of him in engaging in sex and how often," the affidavit said.

OMG! :sick:


I also find it hard to believe that the two weren't involved sexually. That just doesn't ring true to me.
As you can see from the above article, there was! So when we talk about brainwashing, I think a clue is the fact that she says she wasn't sexually "abused." I took that to mean that they had sex, but he didn't hurt her in any way.

I don't think this poor girl realizes that just having sex with her at the age of 14 was a crime.

[BillyGoatGruff]

This is the reason we don't really need mystery novels. :) Stories like this are stranger than fiction.

I saw this on Rita Cosby tonight, and I just don't understand a few things yet. The reporter said that this man had a son a few years younger than this girl. Didn't he notice that Dad had a young woman tied up to a bucket in his bedroom?

This reminds me of the Elizabeth Smart case, in a way, since this girl was so close to home. There had to have been some sort of Stockholm Syndrome - she sympathized with her captor - or some sort of psychology to this that I don't quite understand. I would have scratched my way out of that house within two weeks!
This guy may have had a son, but that doesn't mean the kid ever laid eyes on his dad or went to visit him.

[BillyGoatGruff]

Have you seen this? I'm furious now! :furious: They had a "friend" who helped this scumbag kidnap the girl!

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/newssummary/s_436166.html



OMG! :sick:


As you can see from the above article, there was! So when we talk about brainwashing, I think a clue is the fact that she says she wasn't sexually "abused." I took that to mean that they had sex, but he didn't hurt her in any way.

I don't think this poor girl realizes that just having sex with her at the age of 14 was a crime.
The freak is a textbook narcissistic, manipulative pedophile. One who still lives at home with his parents! Yeesh!

[Usher737]

I think she might have left willing with him in the very beginning. She was looking for someone to love her and take care of her. I am sure she never imagined he would keep her locked up in the bedroom for 4 straight years. She is a victim here and he had to know what he was doing is wrong. I hope he does jail time. Sounds like she was a lonely, confused teenager and she lost 10 years of her life.

Also, I agree with Jubie and hope this case could help to reunite other kids with their parents whether they are runaways or being held against their will.

All it takes is 1 person to step forward and bring resolution to a cold case.

[Thinkoflaura]

I hope this story spreads like wild fire and all the news outlets take it on in a positive light. Can you imagine this starting a dominoe effect of women returing to families long thought lost. (No I'm not talking a stampede but mabye a few more women might find the courage to call home even if they've gotten into drugs and prostitution)

I don't care if she ran away from a disfunctional home or a 'perfect' home. She was only fourteen and obviously not very level headed. Hose was 27 and she was 14. that's sick and it makes him a predator.


Sadly there are plenty more just like him and it makes you wonder how many more 'runaways' are so close to home yet so far away.


Jubie

Jubie,
You are so right. There is a thread in the " News" section where some people are questioning this young lady's story. I cried with happiness over her being found and reunited with her father ( and her mother is coming to see her as well) when I read it on the Internet news. Then I came here and read the questioning the victim part on the other thread and cried again.

I think he may have picked her out at school because maybe she did come from a not- great home ( who thinks they do have it great at 14??) and YES, he is a sexual predator of the worst kind.
He took her teen years and her self- identity from her. That's despicable, whether she packed a bag and initially went with him or not. How she left is irrelevent to me ( and I do not know the details of how the initial kidnapping took place, but it was a kidnapping/ hostage taking). Many victims of sadists like this are killed when they become boring, or a liability in another way. She is so fortunate to have survived.
I am not sure that the other 14 year old girl whose body was found in the cemetery near this guy's house wasn't his victim too.

Tanya will never be a cheerleader, homecoming queen or band member, go to the prom, have her senior portrait taken, or go to sleepovers at girlfriends' houses. She probably has never driven a car yet, hasn't voted, and probably doesn't even know what has happened in the world for the past 10 years. Older relatives and pets she loved are probably dead. Friends have long moved on, gone to college, some have married, many have moved away.
Her entire world is different from what she knew as a sweet pretty young teen. I hope that monster pays dearly for what he did to her body, mind and spirit. I look at her 14 year old photo and her photo now, and feel a huge ache for what she was forced to give up in so many ways.

But, she survived, and she will be OK. :) That's the best outcome a heinous crime like this against a minor could have.Tanya was able to stay alive in horrible conditions for 10 years, and although she obviously will need time to recover who she is, I believe she will triumph over the sicko who hurt her so.
She had the strength to accept help when the shop owner knew something was wrong, even though I am sure she thought she might not get away or have a place to go if she did get away, so I think she will be strong enough to have a happy future.
Anyone who can survive 10 years in a closet and being abused like she was and find a way to get away from her tormentor or tormentors, counting the hairdresser and possibly other adults who knew about her in a closet for 10 years, is remarkable in my eyes.

I am so thankful that the shop owner was savvy enough and KIND enough to not dismiss her as a flake or a druggie.Applaurse to her hero. :woohoo:
I hope so much that the way in which she was seen to be in trouble, not ignored, will be a wakeup call again for everyone to LOOK and LISTEN to every person we meet. They may be in need or in jeopardy.

[shannaleigh]

are there any pictures of her or this sicko posted anywhere yet?

[Thinkoflaura]

are there any pictures of her or this sicko posted anywhere yet?

Photos of her with her father now, and then photos of the suspect can be found here:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/23/missing.girl.found.ap/index.html

There was a photo of her at 14 on the Pittsburg newspaper site, but it is now gone.

[jodierenee]

here is a link that takes you to her old missing persons's poster (it's a cache from google)

It has a picture of her 10 years ago, an an age progression. It would be interesting to see how she looks now compared to the progression.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:eeS2_eGgZgUJ:www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet%3Fact%3DviewPoster%26caseNum% 3D858164%26orgPrefix%3DNCMC%26searchLang%3Den_US+% 2B%22tanya+kach%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5

[hoppyfrog]

This is what I don't understand: the news reports say Kach was locked in a bedroom for several years, yet the perp will not be charged with kidnapping. Why not? I don't understand that.

Here are some excerts from the CNN news story link at http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/23/missing.girl.found.ap/index.html:

Allegheny County Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said Kach wasn't allowed out of the house for the first four years she lived with Hose.

Moffatt added that she wasn't being held against her will when she befriended convenience store owner Joseph Sparico.

Kach lived in the home Hose shared with his parents since 1996, and Moffatt said for the first four years when others came over, Kach was made to stay in a bedroom.

Someone want to explain?

Hoppy

[shannaleigh]

Thanks for the link, I saw the photo of her and her father but I didn't see any of the suspect. She looks very pretty now.

[jodierenee]

here is a recent pic of her

http://images.ibsys.com/2006/0323/8203943_400X300.jpg

compared with the age progression
http://www.missingkids.com/photographs/NCMC858164e1.jpg

not bad, would be better if the hair was blonder.

[shannaleigh]

Thinkoflaura can you please post another link to the picture of Hose.

[Thinkoflaura]

I am posting a few quotes from Tanya which were released by police to the Pittsburg Tribune- Review, as they differ quite a bit from what CNN.com and the other major news outlets are reporting. They are omtting the worst parts of what happened to Tanya.
Also, the Pittsburgh paper has changed its initial report from what I read when the story broke, and may do so again under legal pressure from Hose's attorney. If they continue to sanitize the police interview, the links will be to the revisions, not to the case facts as police released them. I think it's important to have a clear picture of what happened to her in the polices direct quotes.

Remember- she was in the EIGHTH grade, in middle school, and he was 37 years old when he took her the house where he lived. His parents may have lived there for part of the time. It is not said whether they knew of her existence, same with his son, who may have lived in part of the house occasionally during visits to his non- custodial parent.

From the Pittsburg Tribune- Review:
http://pittsburghlive.com/missing.html
Police statement:
"Kach spent most of the past 10 years locked in a bedroom of Hose's parents' Soles Street home.
Hose and Kach met in late 1995 at the school where Hose, then 37, worked as a security guard. They secretly dated. She believed they were in love.

No one could take care of her better, she believed. He invited her to move in with him, but told Kach she would have to remain hidden from his parents until he mustered the courage to tell them about her.
She agreed and dreamed of their future together - a wedding, and maybe even children.
But it was mostly a nightmare.
He locked her in an upstairs bedroom where she used a bucket as a toilet. He brought her water and food - mostly peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
She was allowed to watch television and listen to the radio, but only with headphones so his parents wouldn't hear. She tiptoed around the room. Hose made her memorize which floorboards creaked.
Hose gave her a new first name - Nikki - and told her to pick another last name. She opened the telephone book, closed her eyes and pointed: Allen. "

SNIP: Quote: ""He told me no one even cared I was missing and no one was looking for me," she said as her eyes welled with tears. "He said the case was cold. I believed him."

How she was found, vs what CNN.com has reported:
Quote:
"In the past 10 months, Kach befriended Joe Sparico, owner of JJ's Deli Mart on Evans Street, and visited his store just about every day. Some days she would linger for hours. She lived with an older man, Kach told him, and didn't have a driver's license or an education.
The store owner gently prodded Kach for details because "I knew something about her situation just wasn't right," Sparico said.
On Tuesday morning, something had changed in his young friend. Her hands trembled, and she was crying.
They sat down together in a back room and she revealed her secret: Nikki Allen didn't exist. She was really Tanya Kach, the girl who disappeared from her daddy's house long ago."
END QUOTE

Here's what the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released to the press about Tanya's kidnapping:
Ron Jones, a senior case manager with the missing children's center, said "He certainly coerced this young woman into staying with him, which is exploitation. But I don't believe the young woman realized that she was being exploited."

What Tanya;s dad said about her emotional age:
"She asks for permission to smoke a cigarette and to go clothes shopping in the next few days.
"You're 24 years old, Tanya, There are no locks on these doors and no bars on these windows."

These words make her cry.
"I can't believe I'm free."

[jodierenee]

here's a pic of the suspect.

yuck.

what possess a 14 year old to run away with a 30 something school security officer!

http://images.ibsys.com/2006/0323/8204018.jpg

[Thinkoflaura]

Thanks for the link, I saw the photo of her and her father but I didn't see any of the suspect. She looks very pretty now.

There is a photo " gallery". You see her photo with her dad, then click on NEXT, and it shows him with his attorney. :)

[Thinkoflaura]

This is what I don't understand: the news reports say Kach was locked in a bedroom for several years, yet the perp will not be charged with kidnapping. Why not? I don't understand that.

Here are some excerts from the CNN news story link at http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/23/missing.girl.found.ap/index.html:

Allegheny County Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said Kach wasn't allowed out of the house for the first four years she lived with Hose.

Moffatt added that she wasn't being held against her will when she befriended convenience store owner Joseph Sparico.

Kach lived in the home Hose shared with his parents since 1996, and Moffatt said for the first four years when others came over, Kach was made to stay in a bedroom.

Someone want to explain?

Hoppy

Here's mine:
She was just found yesterday. The case is breaking.
Hose has already been charged with multiple counts of deviant sexual acts with a minor.
My feeling is that more charges will be forthcoming in the days to come.
Meanwhile, they have enough to arrest him and book him on felony charges while they build the entire case.

His attorney is already dismissing any suggestion that she was kidnapped, so the DA is going to have to build a solid case against Hose. I also do not know the specifics of PA law regarding a 14 year old Middle School girl leaving her home with a 37 year old man without the use of physical force at the time of the leave- taking. There was certainly coercion, confinement in a locked room/ closet and physical and mental abuse and deprivation once he had her where he wanted her, which in my opinion, IS kidnapping.

This is a case which will hinge a lot on what Tanya says, remembers, and her credibility vs. Hose's perceived credibility.

Chances are, Tanya will be the key witness against him. She is physically safe, but will need help to recover emotionally, obviously.
She will need expert taped inviewing over a period of time with both police and expert psychiatrists trained in both court proceedings and in memory rescue. This girl is emotionally 14 years old. Her emotional growth stopped the day she was locked in a room, identity and appearance was changed, and she was told over a period of years that no one cared about her. These are textbook actions of a kidnapper/ captor.

[Thinkoflaura]

Thinkoflaura can you please post another link to the picture of Hose.

Sure, honey.
This should be a link to Hose's photo with his attorney. The attorney is the older man.
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/US/03/23/missing.girl.found.ap/story.missing.03.ap.jpg

[shannaleigh]

Oh thank you so much Thinkoflaura. Has anyone read what his present job is? I'm anxious to hear from his son's mother. I wish I weren't so nosy.

[Rle7]

That man, Thomas Hose, had a mental evaluation today and could to post bond and get out of jail any time.

When Hose gets out of jail, he won't have a job.

http://kdka.com/topstories/local_story_082160428.html

I hope he doesn't make good on his threat to kill her. I would be extremely worried if this nut was around my neighborhood, especially concerning the fact that he lived across from a crime scene involving another 14-yr-old girl who was murdered. How do these people get out on bond anyways???

[Thinkoflaura]

Oh thank you so much Thinkoflaura. Has anyone read what his present job is? I'm anxious to hear from his son's mother. I wish I weren't so nosy.

Shannaleigh, he was STILL working as a security guard for the Mkeesport School District when arrested. He is now " suspended without pay".
The school officials are described as being " shocked and stunned".

Another point of great interest to me is this: His house, where Tanya was held, is a block away from where the remains of murder victim Kimberly Krimm, also 14, were found in 1998.
The murder is unsolved.
Did he kill another 14 year old victim?

[Usher737]

This site has a recent picture of Tanya and her abductor.
She still has the same face and eyes.
http://www.wpxi.com/news/8186371/detail.html

[Thinkoflaura]

This is a great and easy to watch video of Tanya speaking with a reporter. It appears that she is at her father's house, and he is present.
The " Joe" she refers to is the man at the Deli who befriended her and finally gained her trust to learn the truth about who she was.

http://kdka.com/video/?id=14683@kdka.dayport.com

[BillyGoatGruff]

Here's mine:
She was just found yesterday. The case is breaking.
Hose has already been charged with multiple counts of deviant sexual acts with a minor.
My feeling is that more charges will be forthcoming in the days to come.
Meanwhile, they have enough to arrest him and book him on felony charges while they build the entire case.

His attorney is already dismissing any suggestion that she was kidnapped, so the DA is going to have to build a solid case against Hose. I also do not know the specifics of PA law regarding a 14 year old Middle School girl leaving her home with a 37 year old man without the use of physical force at the time of the leave- taking. There was certainly coercion, confinement in a locked room/ closet and physical and mental abuse and deprivation once he had her where he wanted her, which in my opinion, IS kidnapping.

This is a case which will hinge a lot on what Tanya says, remembers, and her credibility vs. Hose's perceived credibility.

Chances are, Tanya will be the key witness against him. She is physically safe, but will need help to recover emotionally, obviously.
She will need expert taped inviewing over a period of time with both police and expert psychiatrists trained in both court proceedings and in memory rescue. This girl is emotionally 14 years old. Her emotional growth stopped the day she was locked in a room, identity and appearance was changed, and she was told over a period of years that no one cared about her. These are textbook actions of a kidnapper/ captor.
I believe they will end up charging him with interference in the custody of a minor, unlawful restraint, and unlawful imprisonment, as well as aggravated child molestation, child molestation, sexual battery, statutory rape, and terrorisitic threats, but no kidnapping.

[Thinkoflaura]

I believe they will end up charging him with interference in the custody of a minor, unlawful restraint, and unlawful imprisonment, as well as aggravated child molestation, child molestation, sexual battery, statutory rape, and terrorisitic threats, but no kidnapping.

I don't know about anyone else's opinion, but I can live with that. He should spend enough years behind bars that he will be too old upon release to hurt another young girl.

I still wonder if he could be connected to the murdered girl found a block from his house in a cemetery in 1998. She was also 14... I hope the authorities are looking at this very closely.

[txsvicki]

I guess he didn't let her go out of the bedroom at all for 4 years because she would have then been eighteen and of age. It sounds like the pervert must have allowed her to smoke cigarettes and get addicted to something. She is still even asking permission to smoke a cigarette. I wonder if he was making her bleach her hair due to some weird reasons.

[blueclouds]

ANOTHER WARRANT ISSUED!!!!!!!!!!!!


APPARENTLY HE HAD HELP! HIDING THIS GIRL.

AT THE MOMENT, SHE CANNOT BE LOCATED:

HOW SWEET!


http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06083/676139.stm

[Trino]

I think there are strange things about this case and this girl. Maybe she was coerced into leaving home with him, but held against her will? If this is true, how did she talk "many times" to the store owner before revealing her story. Now, she's disappeared?

[BillyGoatGruff]

I think there are strange things about this case and this girl. Maybe she was coerced into leaving home with him, but held against her will? If this is true, how did she talk "many times" to the store owner before revealing her story. Now, she's disappeared?Apparently her boyfriend/captor had started to let her go out unattended over the last 6 months, at least during the day.

Never underestimate the damage brainwashing while in captivty can do to the mind--especially one as suspectible and naiive and underdeveloped as that of a 14 year old girl who "thinks" she is in love.

I'm reminded of when I worked in the zoo and some of the animals, such as tigers and wolves and lions, would not come out of their cages, even when the doors were left standing wide open.

Oddly enough, the giant tortoise would always make a run for it every night, climbing over his fenced enclosure. We'd always find him halfway to the front gate come 6am.

[kazzbar]

I saw this on Greta and think that the poor girl was in love with him initially but soon found out what a sad creep this guy is. If parents lived with them then they must have had some suspicion .I do not see how they would have had no idea but who knows! This girl has suffered the worst kind of mental torture at the hands of this guy. To be told that you can't go home and you are'forgotten' is just evil. There will be more charges for sure. His lawyer seems to be painting this as a voluntary runaway situation.But the girl was 14, a child. That is the whole point as I see it. Lock him up and through the key away if he is guilty.She looks like a sweet person. i hope she will be o.k and have a good life.Imagine the joy of her parents to have her returned.:clap:

[concernedperson]

There is no way this girl was not brainwashed and manipulated for years. I am glad the "spark" came over her to reach out to the deli owner. In no way is this over for her though, she needs lots of counseling. The scars are there, one cannot be imprisoned in mind or spirit or physical constraints and not have a scar.Prayers for her recovery.

[txsvicki]

There is no way this girl was not brainwashed and manipulated for years. I am glad the "spark" came over her to reach out to the deli owner. In no way is this over for her though, she needs lots of counseling. The scars are there, one cannot be imprisoned in mind or spirit or physical constraints and not have a scar.Prayers for her recovery.


I agree. A young attractive shy woman with no job, education, or life, living with a much older homely looking man and his parents is not a normal situation. To be that age and going to a store every day for socializing is odd in itself. Thanks goodness for the deli owner. Never coming out of a bedroom for 4 years straight would be enough to completely destroy a person's will and brainwash them for no telling how many more years. She was a child when it started. That pervert and all his helpers need to go to jail for the rest of their lives. They could still prey on other children.

[fox1950]

I can't seem to bring up Tanya picture that was done on age progression. I would love to compare how she really looks with the age progression picture. Do anyone have one they could post?

[lostfaith]

I can't seem to bring up Tanya picture that was done on age progression. I would love to compare how she really looks with the age progression picture. Do anyone have one they could post?



http://www.wpxi.com/news/8186371/detail.html


This site has a picture of her at 14, an age progression pic, and how she currently looks. I do not think the age progression one looks much like her, see what you think.

[concernedperson]

Actually, I do think it looks like her. She is just more mature looking as evident of her experiences. The extremely dyed hair and nails are the perps choices of what she should/would be. Not hers, she never had the choice.

[fox1950]

http://www.wpxi.com/news/8186371/detail.html


This site has a picture of her at 14, an age progression pic, and how she currently looks. I do not think the age progression one looks much like her, see what you think.
Thanks for the picture. I do not think it looks much like her, either. Could be the hairstyle, etc. but her features, eyes, lips, and nose, look different also.
Just my opinion. Thanks again.

[blueclouds]

MY GOD, THIS GUY IS A SUSPECT FOR THE DEATH OF ANOTHER GIRL???

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0306/3101_teen_captive_questions.html


Kimberlee Krimm's unsolved murder. So many coincidences. Gosh HOW AWFUL.
http://www.wtv-zone.com/LadyMaggie/php/Kim.html

[AeroFanRW]

http://www.wpxi.com/news/8484214/detail.html

McKEESPORT, Pa. -- Channel 11 has learned that District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. is expected to file more charges against Thomas Hose, 48.


full story at link.....

I wonder if this has anything to do with this case or the other girl?

[mysteriew]

Hose pleaded guilty in a plea bargain, Sokol pleaded no contest.
Tanya Nicole Kach has sued both of them and others in civil court. She spoke in court and had some harsh words for Hose. She has gotten her GED and is now in college.
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070627/NEWS/70627025

[CaliKid]

So did they ever check him out about Kimmie's murder?