Girl Missing For 10 Years Allegedly Locked In House

Kansas City Channel.com
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McKeesporet, Pennsylvania (US):
A Pennsylvania teen who disappeared in 1996 has been found.Tanya Kach, now 24, was 14 when she disappeared on Feb. 10, 1996.
That was the last time she was heard from, police said.Ten years later, officials said that Kach was found in McKeesport, Pa., -- the very city from which she vanished.The girl had been going by the name "Nikki Evans," WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh reported.
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The man who found Kach is the owner of JJ's Deli Mart in McKeesport. Joe Sparico said that for the past seven months, Kach had been going to his deli and befriended him. On Tuesday, Sparico said Kach came into his deli and told him she had something to tell him.
He said Kach told him that she had been using an alias -- that her real name is Tanya Kach.Kach said she was held captive, locked in the house -- typically made to stay in the bedroom -- at 1002 Soles St. in McKeesport.
It's the home of 47-year-old Thomas Hose, an ex-security guard at Cornell Middle School, where Tanya attended, according to WTAE. Kach said she was not allowed to leave the house until sometime in 2000.
Kach said after four years as a captive, she was allowed to venture out of the house.Hose is now jailed on charges of statutory sexual assault and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.
The deli owner said Kach pleaded with him, "Don't you abandon me."