Tanya Nicole Kach

Tanya Nicole Kach-McCrum (born October 14, 1981)[1] is an American woman who was held captive for ten years by a security guard who worked at the school she attended.[2] Her captor, Thomas Hose, eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and other related offenses and was sentenced to five to fifteen years in prison.[3]

Captivity

Thomas Hose was a security guard at Cornell Middle School in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where Kach was a student. Hose befriended Kach, often taking her out of classes to talk to her, and one day when he caught her skipping class, he kissed her. Over time, Hose convinced Kach to run away from her family and move in with him, which she did in February 1996.

For the first four years, she was not allowed out of the house. Hose lived with his parents and son,[2] and went to great lengths to keep Kach hidden from them. She was confined entirely to his second story bedroom, and had to go to the toilet in a bucket. In 2000, Hose created a new identity for Kach, "Nikki Allen", and introduced her to his parents as his girlfriend who would be moving in with them. After this, she was occasionally allowed to leave the house but had a strict curfew. Six years later, she escaped.[4][5]

In 2007, Hose pled guilty to three counts of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, statutory sexual assault, interfering with the custody of a child, corruption of a minor and child endangerment.[6]

Escape and later life

After being allowed some time outside of the house, Kach began to realize that her relationship with Hose was not normal. She escaped from captivity on March 21, 2006, with the help of Joe Sparico, a grocery store owner in her neighborhood, by revealing her true identity to him and asking him to send police to the house.[7]

Kach was happy to be reunited with her family, but has since become estranged from her father. Through her marriage in September 2018,[8] she has a stepdaughter and stepson and is grandmother to her stepson’s young children.

Since her escape, Kach attempted to sue numerous government organizations for their failing of her, including the police and school board. All were thrown out of court.[1] She has also written a New York Times Bestselling book titled Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid: The Tanya Nicole Kach Story.[9]

See also

References
  1. Captive: The Sex Slave Girl, Channel 4, 29 November 2012
  2. Ian Urbina, "Woman, 24, Says Neighbor Held Her Captive for 10 Years", New York Times, Mar 24, 2006.
  3. "Man pleads guilty in runaway case" (Associated Press), Reading Eagle, June 25, 2007.
  4. "Woman Missing for Ten Years Reunited with Family. She had Stockholm Syndrome.", USA Today, March 23, 2006.
  5. "Woman tells details of 10 years in captivity", NBC News, March 24, 2006.
  6. "Story hits close to home for Tanya Nicole Kach, held captive in McKeesport", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 8, 2013
  7. Katherine Ramsland, "Sex Slaves: The Psychology of Mastery", Crime Library.
  8. "The Case of the Missing Girl Locked in a Room". PEOPLE.com.
  9. Memoir of a milk carton kid. WorldCat. OCLC 754718762.
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